The Wrocław Baroque Orchestra attached to the Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music is a dynamically developing ensemble that has already performed with such renowned conductors as Philippe Herreweghe, Giovanni Antonini, Andreas Spering, Hans-Christoph Rademann and Rubén Dubrovsky. Equally impressive is the list of soloists whom the orchestra has had the opportunity to accompany: Vivica Genaux, Regula Muhlemann, Renata Pokupić, Roberta Invernizzi, Aleksandra Kurzak and others. Also among their number is Bartłomiej Nizioł – an outstanding performer of both ambitious works from the last century and also early music. This time, the soloist will be turning to the forgotten heritage of the Polish violin literature – the concertos of Feliks Janiewicz. That outstanding violinist and composer, a friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was regarded in his day as an international star of the stage. The performance of his fourth and fifth concertos on period instruments, led by the Wrocław orchestra’s founder and NFM director Andrzej Kosendiak, will allow our present-day audience to enjoy the same sounds that accompanied the era of ‘storm and stress’ (Sturm und Drang).

Jan Lech