Palimpsest for string septet (4 violins, viola, cello and double bass) by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt (1923–2012), composed in the early 1990s, is music for the lovers of pleasant sounds, where traditional tonality and obsessive minimalistic trance are arranged in 11 parts. Lutosławski's "Silesian melodies date back to Stalinist times, when tonality was a very political subject... 

PROGRAMME:

Witold Lutosławski 4 Silesian melodies (1954)
Simeon ten Holt Palimpsest for string septet (1993)  

PERFORMERS:

Chain Ensemble / Andrzej Bauer (cello, concert direction)  

ORGANIZER: Towarzystwo im. Witolda Lutosławskiego
FINANCED BY m.st. Warszawa