Polish music opens London Philharmonic Orchestra’s season
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
26.09.2018 13:00
Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's 'Third Symphony' is on the programme of a concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday.
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The concert, which opens the orchestra’s 2018/2019 season, also includes Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements and In Seven Days by British composer Thomas Adès, who also appears on the conductor’s podium.
The event is organized in collaboration with the Warsaw-based Adam Mickiewicz Institute, which promotes Polish music.
Witold Lutosławski was one of the greatest 20th-century composers. He died in 1994, aged 81.
His Third Symphony was written between 1973 and 1983. It was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which gave the piece its world premiere in Chicago, under Georg Solti, in September 1983.
The work won Lutosławski the Solidarity Prize and the Grawemeyer Award for Composition. (mk/vb)