The programme of the Israel Camerata Jerusalem concert, conducted by Avner Biron, includes works composed by Viennese Classicists and composers closer to the present – created in the 20th century - by Krzysztof Penderecki and the Israeli composer Menachem Wiesenberg. Together with the musicians of the chamber orchestra, Szymon Nehring will perform, the winner of the prestigious International Master Piano Competition ‘Arthur Rubinstein’ in Tel Aviv in 2017.
Krzysztof Penderecki’s A Polish Requiem is a monumental composition of exceptional importance both for his work and for the history of Polish music in general. The work was written for many years, in a difficult time for Poland, starting in the 1980s. One of the most famous parts of the work – Chaconne – will be heard. The composer used fragments of Latin liturgical texts of the funeral mass and referred to works belonging to this genre by such artists as Orlando di Lasso, Giuseppe Verdi or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor is one of the most appreciated compositions among Mozart’s concertos. Composed in 1785, the work was appreciated by both the audience and other composers – Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann performed it with gusto, adding their own cadenzas.
During the concert, the musicians will also present An Overture for Strings – Homage to Mendelssohn by the leading Israeli composer Menachem Wiesenberg, dynamic in character, and at the same time a tribute to the great Romantic. The concert will be crowned with Symphony No. 4 in B flat major op. 60 by Ludwig van Beethoven – much lighter and more joyful than the famous Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major ‘Eroica’ or Symphony No. 5 in C minor famous for its dramatic ‘theme of destiny’.