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The final concert of 2nd Polish Music Festival
2006-11-13
12 November 8:00 PM12 November
2006, 5:00 PM
This will
be an electrifying concert. First of all, yet again, Kraków will host the
famous Amadeus orchestra led by Agnieszka Duczmal. At the piano will be
keyboard wizard Adam Makowicz. If such united artistic forces are preparing
their own view of Chopin’s music, the only possible result will be a wonderful musical
feast.
12 November
2006, 8:00 PM
Finis coronat opus. This beautiful Latin maxim is ideally suited to the finale of the Second Festival of Polish Music. Forty years after its première, the Kraków audience will have occasion to hear one of the masterpieces of 20th-century music – Krzysztof Penderecki’s Passion According to St. Luke. This musical image of the Passion of the Lord, scored for solo voices, narrator, three choirs, boys’ choir and orchestra, staggers, moves and forces audiences to reflect every time. This time, we have invited the musical youth of three Music Academies to perform this work, in order to create for them the opportunity of direct contact with this uncommon work of European musical culture.
KRAKÓW PHILHARMONIC HALL, 500P.M.
Jerzy Maksymiuk – Whispers and Screams of Dreams for cello solo and
chamber orchestra (2006),
Marta Ptaszyńska – A Winter’s Tale (1984),
Piotr Wróbel – Violet Rhapsody for viola and strings (2002),
Frederic Chopin/Adam Makowicz - Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66
Frederic Chopin/Adam Makowicz - Prelude in A major Op. 28 No. 7
Adam Makowicz - Early June In Central Park
Frederic Chopin/Adam Makowicz - Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4
Adam Makowicz - Living High In Manhattan
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra
Adam Makowicz – piano
Karolina Jaroszewska - cello
Lech Bałaban - viola
Agnieszka Duczmal – conductor
CHURCH OF SS. PETER AND PAUL, 800P.M.
Krzysztof Penderecki – Passio et mors Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum
Lucam for soloists, reciter, boys' choir, three mixed choirs and orchestra
(1965/66),
Ingrid Kappelle – soprano (Holland)
Adam Kruszewski – baritone
Tomasz Konieczny – bass
Jerzy Grałek – reciter
Boys’ Choir of Kraków Philharmonic
Lidia Matynian – boys' choir master
Camerata Silesia
Anna Szostak - choir master
Choir of the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice
Aleksandra Paszek-Trefon - choir master
Harmonia College Choir of University of Silesia - Cieszyn
Izabella Zielecka-Panek - choir master
Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Kraków
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