The opening evening of Radio 3's Polish Season comes live from Warsaw.
Adrian Thomas presents music from 1885 to the present day and looks at musical life in Poland today. The evening begins with a preview of some of the season's major events.
7.45 Polish Radio
Concert
I Wilanow String I Quartet
Szabolcs Esztenyi (piano) Szymanowski String Quartet No 2 (1927)
Zarebski Piano Quintet
8.45 A Musician's Lot ...
Adrian Thomas looks at the position of musicians and musical institutions in Poland.
9.05 Bornus Consort and instrumentalists
Andrzej Krzanowski Salve Regina
Penderecki Ecloga VIII
Pawel Szymanski Miserere
9.50 Pollical Developments The Way Forward or the Way Back?
What does the return of a reformed communist party to power really mean? Piotr Kowalczuk examines the key issues with some leading players. Followed at
10.20 by a live discussion from the studios of Polish
Radio in Warsaw.
Producer David Perry
10.35 Fin-de-siècle (1993) A Polish Radio commission from Stanislaw Krupowicz , who introduces the work.
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), conductor Takao Ukigaya
10.55 A Composer's Lot Adrian Thomas talks to
Polish composers to discover how new music fares in the 90s. With contributions from
Rafal Augustyn , Zygmunt Krauze , Pawel Symanski and others.
11.15 Warsaw Autumn
Festival 1993
Works by two senior Polish composers, in performances given at this year's festival. Roman Palester Adagio for Strings
Sinfonia Varsovia, conductor Jan Krenz Lutoslawski
Symphony No 4 (1993) Warsaw National PO/The Composer
12.00 Szymanowski Mythes
Kaja Danczowska (violin) Krystian Zimerman (piano) Disc
Poland Now producer Anthony Cheevers