With Grażyna Bacewicz and Witold Lutosławski, our guest conductor Clemens Schuldt has two Polish composers with him who have a hard time asserting themselves on international concert stages - although both have left outstanding works. The student of Nadia Boulanger, Grażyna Bacewicz, wrote her entertaining Overture Orchestra, composed in 1943, one of the most virtuoso orchestral works of that time.
In 1950, Witold Lutosławski composed one of the absolute masterpieces of 20th century music with his Concerto for Orchestra. At least this piece is now part of the regular concert repertoire. Here the composer uses traditional and folkloric elements, which he artfully combines with his own tonal language. A firework of sounds and themes that fit perfectly with Antonín Dvořák's 6th symphony. Whose work, composed in 1880, is strongly influenced by the Bohemian-Moravian origins of the butcher's son who was born in Nelahozeves on the Vltava. The pastoral mood also ensured that the work was one of the composer's most popular works even during his lifetime.
Born in Bremen, Clemens Schuldt will be music director of the Orchester Symphonique de Québec from the 2023/24 season and will be a guest with the Kassel State Orchestra for the first time.
