“Living legend” - Krzysztof Penderecki’s 80th birthday

The BMF honors this “living legend” of avant-garde music with two concerts featuring his music. Penderecki and the China National Symphony Orchestra perform his Double Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra featuring Chinese violinist Vera Tsu Wei-ling and Lithuanian violist Julian Rachlin. The composer conducts a reprise his Symphony No. 8, “Songs of Transcience,” a Beijing Music Festival commission that premiered in 2007.
Beside a symphonic concert which will be held on 16 of October, there will be a chamber concert on 15 of October which will feature such chamber works of Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki as Serenade for Strings, Concerto for viola and Chaconne “In memoriam John Paul II”.