The Orchestra and Choirs of the Kraków Philharmonic under the baton of Łukasz Borowicz reach for true classics. Carmina Burana, the stage cantata performed for the first time in 1937, enchants with its powerful music teeming with rhythm and the joy of life. Carl Orff composed it to secular lyrics from a mediaeval manuscript found in the Bavarian Benediktbeuern monastery, which gave name to its Latin title translated as Songs of Beuern.
The work comprises texts from over eight centuries ago, telling about twists of fate, the transience of being, the joy of spring, love’s delight and the pleasures and pitfalls of feasting, boozing and gambling – none of which are any less pertinent today. And although the O Fortuna chorus forewarns against the unpredictable whims of the Roman goddess, whose capriciousness delivers good and bad luck, power and poverty, victories and defeats, the work is a perfect choice for the time of Carnival.
The programme of the concert will be rounded off by Sinfonia concertante in E flat major for four winds, penned by 22-year-old Mozart for the Mannheim orchestra.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K. Anh. I/9 (297b) for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
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Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Gabriela Hrženjak – soprano
Michał Czerniawski – countertenor
Mark Stone – baritone
Paweł Nyklewicz – oboe
Michał Poniżnik – clarinet
Adam Kozłowski – horn
TBA – bassoon
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Kraków Philharmonic Boys' and Girls' Choirs
Kraków Philharmonic Ukrainian Children Choir
Lidia Matynian – preparation of the Kraków Philharmonic Boys' and Girls' Choirs
Olena Yatskulynets – preparation of the Kraków Philharmonic Ukrainian Children Choir
Łukasz Borowicz – condcutor
