10 September 2016
Cracow Oper Hall

Programme:

Paweł Mykietyn – Fanfare for Orchestra
Karol Szymanowski – Violin concerto No. 1
Georges Bizet – Je dis que rien ne m’epouvante – Micaela’s aria from Carmen Act III
Giacomo Puccini – Vissi d’arte – Tosca’s aria Tosca Act II
Giuseppe Verdi – Ritorna vincitor – Aida’s aria from Aida Act I
Luigi Boccherini (arr. Luciano Berio) – Ritirata notturna di Madrid

interval

Leonard Bernstein – Ouverture to the operetta “Candide”
Leonard Bernstein – song I Feel Pretty from West Side Story
Léo Delibes – song Les filles de Cadix
Leonard Bernstein – Marsz The BSO Forever from Divertimento
Stanisław Moniuszko – The Merry Wives of Windsor – ballet music for Otto Nicolai’s opera
Jakub Ciupiński – Wreck of Umbria (Anne Akiko Meyers commission: Polish premiere)
Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance. March No. 1
Henry Wood – Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Thomas Arne – Rule Britannia
Hubert Parry (orch. Elgar) – Jerusalem
arr. Benjamin Britten
– God Save the Queen
– Polish National Anthem

Anne Akiko Meyers – violin
Magdalena Molendowska – soprano
Beethoven Academy Orchestra
Górecki Chamber Choir
Jacek Kaspszyk – conductor