Ballade Concertare

Ballade Concertare for piano and orchestra was written in 2006. The piece refers to a romantic piano ballad and a solo concerto, being a combination of both forms. The ballad has a narrative character, it is a walk "through the forest of fiction". However, music does not have a strictly defined program in it. Rather, it refers to feelings and states of mind that we can freely transpose on the scale of our own experiences. We recognize its tone as it can sometimes be captured in the stories of foreigners sighing in an unknown language.

Music is expensive and may or may not be a story. The formal course of the Concertante Ballade reflects a certain psychological course, a fantastic lyrical situation. In the first movement, Andante maestoso, a conflict is clearly outlined, so characteristic of concertante forms. It is a picture of struggling with the world seen through the prism of one's fears. The lyrical second part encourages reflection and delving into one's interior, where anxieties become an illusion. The bucolic character of the finale is a kind of awakening after the heroic experiences of the first part and the introverted reverie of Adagio. The reality in the distorting mirror of the scherzando bears the hallmarks of the absurd, especially when the awakening takes place in another dream.

The piece was first performed on the 30th of April 2008 by Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra, in Kalisz, Poland by Katarzyna Neugebauer (piano), and Adam Klocek (conductor).