Karolina Węgrzyn is an award-winning Polish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from South-Eastern Poland, now based in the UK. Raised in a family of traditional singers and dancers, she inherited many songs from her grandmother and uses singing techniques rooted in Eastern European village traditions. She performs across the UK with her band, blending powerful upbeat Balkan folk with emotional North-Carpathian rawness to create a sense of shared cultural heritage.
Part of the Leamington Music “Focus on Poland” Festival Weekend, 25-27 September
Górecki String Quartet No. 3 Op. 67 ‘…songs are sung’
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
Two masterpieces in one concert for our Festival finale….
Members of the first audience for Górecki’s five-movement magnum opus declared it to have “transcendental qualities”, and in what better way could we close this fabulous weekend? With the coming together of the Festival’s resident pianist and string quartet, to give us arguably the greatest Piano Quintet of them all, of course!
Part of the Leamington Music “Focus on Poland” Festival Weekend, 25-27 September
The finer details…
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Centre Section: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Side Sections: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Krystyna Osostowicz violin | Lucas Krupinski piano
Ravel Habanera
Penderecki Violin Sonata No. 1
Szymanowski Mythes, Op. 30: Narcisse
Franck Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 23
The British-Polish violinist Krystyna Osostowicz is best known to Leamington Music audiences as leader of the Brodsky Quartet. She has made over 30 CD recordings of solo, duo and ensemble repertoire, and collaborates with Lucas Krupinski for the first time especially for our Festival Weekend, with this wonderful programme of French and Polish music that promises to bring out the Festival fireworks!
Part of the Leamington Music “Focus on Poland” Festival Weekend, 25-27 September
The finer details…
Estimated finish: 1pm
Tickets
Centre Section: £19 full price | £3 child/student
Side Sections: £14 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Twardowski Tryptyk mariacki (Triptych of the Virgin Mary)
Lutosławski Bukoliki (viola and cello)
Paweł Mykietyn String Quartet No. 2
Szymanowski 6 Kurpian Songs
Britten String Quartet No. 2
These audience favourites come back to us from Warsaw for their 8th and 9th concerts in Leamington Music’s 20 years, this time with an intriguing mix of Polish and British composers to highlight the Festival Weekend’s aim of sharing the two cultures. Their interpretations are always “confident and energetic, characterized by a vast array of dynamics and timbres, with carefully planned, surprising twists.” – Gramophone
Part of the Leamington Music “Focus on Poland” Festival Weekend, 25-27 September
The finer details…
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Centre Section: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Side Sections: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Prof. John Rink is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Music, and Fellow in Music at St John’s College; he also holds the Concert Recital Diploma and Premier Prix in piano from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. One of the world’s leading authorities on the music of Fryderyk Chopin, Prof. Rink is Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition (Edition Peters). He has published numerous books on the great composer and shares his insights with us in this illuminating talk.
Generously supported by The Chopin Society
Part of the Leamington Music “Focus on Poland” Festival Weekend, 25-27 September
J.S. Bach Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825
Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op. 117
Chopin Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49
Lucas Krupinski is a British-Polish pianist and Steinway Artist, celebrated for his refined lyricism, poetic tone, and depth of expression. He won the Grand Prix at the 7th San Marino International Piano Competition, along with all three top prizes: Audience, Critics’, and Orchestra Awards. He also reached final rounds of the Busoni, Leeds, and Chopin piano competitions, and won first prizes at international contests in Hannover (Chopin Gesellschaft), Aachen (ClaviCologne), and Yamaha Europe.
Part of the Leamington Music “Focus on Poland” Festival Weekend, 25-27 September
The finer details…
Estimated finish: 1pm
Tickets
Centre Section: £19 full price | £3 child/student
Side Sections (unreserved): £14 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Grażyna Bacewicz Suite for Two Violins (1943), 1. Allegro
Górecki Sonata for Two Violins, Op.10, (1961)
Mozart Duo for Violin and Viola No. 2, K424
Daria Kwiatkowska New commission (world premiére)
Michał Ćwiżewicz Tatra Melodies (2013)
Grażyna Bacewicz Quartet for four violins (1949)
The British-Polish duo of brothers Filip and Michał Ćwiżewicz are champions of lesser-known works, programming new commissions as well as performing the capricious fireworks of the virtuosic two-violin repertoire and their own arrangements of classical and folk music.
Part of the Leamington Music “Focus on Poland” Festival Weekend, 25-27 September
The finer details…
Estimated finish: 9pm
Tickets
Centre Section: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Side Sections (unreserved): £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student