He will be accompanied by Helmut Deutsch at the piano.
In addition to a selection of songs by Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Grieg, the programme of the recital includes four songs by Polish composer Mieczysław Karłowicz: It Goes Over the Fields, In the Calm of the Evening, The Enchanted Princess, and I Remember Quiet, Clear Golden Days.
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Karłowicz was an important figure of the Young Poland period. He owes his reputation primarily to six symphonic poems composed between 1903 and 1909, which demonstrate the influences of Wagner, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Grieg.
He died in 1909 in a tragic skiing accident in the Tatra mountains, aged 33.
The recital is part of Carnegie Hall’s Great Singers series.
Carnegie Hall describes the Polish singer on its website as "one of opera’s brightest stars" and "one of the world’s most luminous singers."
It writes, quoting Opera News, that Beczała boasts "the kind of voice you want to hang medals on."
In the coming weeks, Beczała is scheduled to appear at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Radames in eight performances of Verdi’s Aida, starting on New Year’s Eve.
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