From 28 August to 2 September, the Royal Łazienki Museum will once again host the Romantic Compositions Festival: Elsner and His Successors.
The festival opens with a performance by Polish cellist Krzysztof Michalski, this year’s Polish laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
On 29 August, pianist Yehuda Prokopowicz presents a recital featuring music by Maria Szymanowska, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Sergei Prokofiev.
The Karomiko Duo takes to the stage on 30 August. Violinist Karolina Mikołajczyk and accordionist Iwo Jedynecki perform original arrangements of music by Józef Elsner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maria Szymanowska and Karol Szymanowski, highlighting the unique sound of violin and accordion.
On 31 August, pianist Piotr Pawlak performs music by Johann Sebastian Bach, together with Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, and the Piano Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 45 by his pupil Ignacy Krzyżanowski.
The chamber concert on 1 September brings together violinist Aleksandra Kuls, cellist Antoni Wrona and pianist Krzysztof Książek, who perform piano trios by Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński and Clara Schumann.
The festival closes on 2 September with Adam Golka’s recital, Stories at the Piano, featuring music by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Juliusz Zarębski, Frederic Rzewski and Frédéric Chopin.
The festival is organised by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association in partnership with the Royal Łazienki Museum. Concerts take place in the Royal Theatre and the Palace on the Isle.
This year’s festival poster has been designed by Patrycja Longawa.
