With the Bregenz Festival having become, unofficially at least, the leading festival for Polish music – showcasing composers like Szymanowski and Weinberg in recent years, and now André Tchaikowsky – it's only fitting that we should celebrate in 2013 the centenary of the birth of one of Poland's most important composers: Witold Lutosławski. He will be the subject of a concert portrait by the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra on 12 August. Lutosławski's works are amongst the most lyrical and beautiful compositions of the 20th century.

12 August – 7.30 p.m., Seestudio

Conductor: Gérard Korsten
Soloists: Kathryn Lewek und Lucian Krasznec

Duration: 1 1/2 hour, incl. interval

• W. Lutosławski: Dance préludes (3rd Version); Chantefleurs et chantefables; Paroles tissées
• M. Weinberg: Chamber symphony No. 3, op. 151
  

With the kind support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw
(www.lutoslawski.culture.pl, www.polskamusic.pl)

Price: 24 Euro

18 August – 11 a.m., Festspielhaus

Conductor: Gérard Korsten
Violin: Ilya Gringolts

Duration: 1 1/2 hours, incl. interval

• G. Puccini: Capriccio Sinfonico
• M. Weinberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 67
• B. Martinů: Symphony No. 4
  

Prices

Introductory talk an hour before the performance begins, Price 7 Euro. On 12 August there is no introductory talk.