L'Orchestre de la radio polonaise en digne ambassadeur à Bruxelles

By Patrice Lieberman, 26 March 2025

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“un mouvement final d’une sereine et céleste beauté”

Reviewed at BOZAR: Main hall, Brussels on 25 March 2025

Bacewicz, Suite for orchestra

Szymanowski, Symphony no. 4, ''Symphonie Concertante'', for piano and orchestra, Op.60

Penderecki, Polish Requiem: Chaconne

Szymanowski, Stabat mater, Op.53

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

NFM Choir

Pierre-Louis de Laporte, Choirmaster / chorus director

Marin Alsop, Conductor

Erica Eloff, Soprano

Zuzanna Nalewajek, Mezzo-soprano

Ben McAteer, Baritone

Szymon Nehring, Piano

Marin Alsop conducts Skrowaczewski, Panufnik and Prokofiev in Katowice

Linda Holt, 8th March

Marin Alsop conducts the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in colorful repertoire including a concerto by Stanisław Skrowaczewski.

****1

A celebratory platter of Polish music in the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 10th September

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich and soloist Szymon Nehring serve up works by four Polish composers in celebration of the centenary of Poland regaining its national independence.

***11

A Requiem to soothe troubled souls at NOSPR in Katowice

David Karlin, 17th May

Debussy's early cantata is played with verve by NOSPR but exposes its composer's inexperience; Mansurian's memorial to genocide shows off the exceptional musicianship of the RIAS Kammerchor.

***11

Mystery and melancholy, but missing the madness

Jonathan Sutherland, 11th May

A stellar performance of Mahler’s cosmic Third symphony reinforces the reputation of Katowice as a bone fide member of the premier European music league.

***11

Zimerman / Polish National Radio Symphony at MITO

James Imam, 21st September

The all-Polish roster of Krystian Zimerman and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra displayed consummate artistry in a tenebrous programme of Lutosławski and Brahms.

****1

Sublime Mahler and Penderecki: The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bristol

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 24th February

What a concert – the programme and the musicans were sublime. This time, Colston Hall got it spot on with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Seeing all of the credits for the orchestra in the back of the programme prepared me for a big and bold sound that was just short of 100 musicians. Each and every one of them contributed to a fantastic sound under the baton of Jacek Kaspszyk.

*****

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Patrice Lieberman

Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.