Even if the summer season is coming to an end, we continue to have the same relaxed atmosphere due to the works we select, good disposition being the trademark of the moment.

During the 28^th August edition of the Polyphonies programme, my first suggestion to you will be the delicate spirals and lithe sonorities of John Field's music. The appearance of the nocturne as a musical genre is strongly related to his name, but the sensitivity of his scores influenced the later generation of the great Romantics, from Felix Mendelssohn and Frédéric Chopin to Johannes Brahms. The Irish composer died in Moscow in 1837, after he was admired as a pianist and composer in all Europe's greatest musical centres.

The following two works from our present edition are written in a good-humoured tone: the Suite Op. 60 The Bourgeois Gentleman by Richard Strauss and Simfonia Giocosa by Corneliu Dumbrăveanu. I need to note the fact that expressing comical situations and characters through music is not that easy; Strauss revised his opus repeatedly, giving its final form in 1917, and Dumbrăveanu went through the same kind of chiselments for two decades, until 1989. In order for our sonorous journey to include a spectrum as large as possible, I invite you to listen to The Psalms, an a capella choral composition by Theodor Grigoriu and the Concert in D major by Joseph Haydn with Emil Klein as a soloist and conductor of the Hamburg Soloists ensemble.

Polyphonies, Friday, 28^th August, at 13:05