Nutshell

The Wind Quintet of the famous Sinfonia Varsovia brings to Mittelfest a programme combining works by Polish composers and some of the most interesting pieces written and arranged for this type of ensemble.Like a ‘nutshell’, the sounds of the quintet encapsulate the melting pot of cultures and languages of European music. From Rossini to Dvořák, from the Polish composer Bacewicz to the historic conductor Penderecki: a journey through time between Poland and the rest of Europe. Chaos is transformed into order, into a pattern, enclosed in a musical shell.

Italian premiere

Programme

Stanisław Moniuszko, Highlanders’ Dances dall’opera Halka (arr. Piotr Kamiński) 
Alexander Zemlinsky, Humoreske (Rondo) 
Antonín Dvořák, Slavonic Dances op. 72 No. 2 (arr. Ulf Guido Schafer) 
Jacques Ibert, Trois pièces brèves
Tadeusz Szeligowski, Allegro con brio
Krzysztof Penderecki, Aria da Three Pieces in Old Style (arr. Piotr Kamiński)
Grażyna Bacewicz, Allegretto e Vivo da Quintetto per strumenti a fiato 
Gioacchino Rossini, Overture dall’opera L’Italiana in Algeri (arr. Bill Holcombe and Bill Holombe Jr)
Georges Bizet, Carmen Suite (arr. David Walter)