The evening’s program will feature F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, with Piotr Pławner performing the solo part, and J. Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98.

F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is one of the composer’s most popular and most frequently performed works. It owes its immense popularity to its beautiful melody and romantic, intimate, lyrical, and melodious atmosphere. It was first performed by Ferdinand David in Leipzig in 1845.

After intermission, Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 – the last symphony by J. Brahms, completed in 1885. This is an outstanding work, filled with an elegiac mood of sadness and melancholy, where profound emotionality combines with masterful form. In it, the composer evokes the style of previous eras.

The concert will be conducted by Maestro Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk.