FROM CHOPIN TO WEINBERG: A POLISH CLASSICAL EVENING

This concert will last approximately 115 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.
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Artists and program are subject to change without notice.
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Please note that each child’s free ticket must be accompanied by a purchased adult ticket.
Berri-UQAM metro station and Salle Pierre-Mercure are accessible to persons with reduced mobility.

The Concert:

Embark on a journey through Poland’s rich and varied musical landscape. Mieczysław Weinberg’s Polish-influenced Chamber Symphony will open the evening, followed by Québec composer Maxime Goulet’s Histoire de pêche with its beautiful juxtaposition of strings and solo clarinet, featuring Polish-Canadian clarinetist Kornel Wolak.

The sensitive artistry of the magnificent young Polish-Canadian soprano Karoline Podolak will be on full display in the moving aria “Dumka Zuzi” from Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera Verbum Nobile, and in “Sempre Libera” from Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata.

The program will also feature Frédéric Chopin’s Mazurka in B-Flat Major, Nocturne in C-Flat Minor, and his famous Piano Concerto No. 2 featuring Quebec pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre. Led by conductor Andrei Feher, it’s an evening OCM audiences won’t want to miss.

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Repertoire

Chopin, F. – Piano Concerto No. 2 (arr. N. Arman)
Mazurka in B-flat Major, Op. 7, No. 1
Nocturne in C Minor
Weinberg, Mieczysław – Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 145
Goulet, Maxime – Histoire de pêche
Kilar, W. – The Ninth Gate: Vocalise
Moniuszko, S. – Dumka Zuzi from Verbum Nobile
Verdi, G. – Sempre Libera from La Traviata

Artists

Kornel Wolak, clarinet
Karoline Podolak, soprano
Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, piano
Andrei Feher, conductor