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Program
of the 2011 Festival of the Polish Classical Music in
Krakow.
/7. Festiwal
Muzyki Polskiej/
July
15th to July 24th
Note:
things keep changing, so take into account, please, that the
following program is liable to alterations.
July
15th, Friday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
| 8:30
p.m. |
Germany’s
outstanding violinist Laurent Albrecht Breuninger
and Krakow’s Sinfonietta Cracovia chamber
orchestra play Roman Palester’s Oginski
Polonaises, Grazyna Bacewicz’s symphony no. 3
and Karol Lipinski’s violin concerto no. 2 in D
major op. 21. |
Kosciol
Sw. Sw. Piotra i Pawla church at 56 Grodzka street. |
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July
16th, Saturday |
|
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
| 5:00
p.m. |
Participants
of the Professor Helena Lazarska Vocal Master Course
perform Polish classical music (free admission). |
Flharmonia
Krakowska concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. |
| 8:30
p.m. |
Poland’s
soprano Monika Mych, alto Agnieszka Monasterska,
tenor Mikolaj Adamczak, baritone Artur Rozek,
pianist Bartlomiej Kominek, and Octava Ensemble
perform Jozef Michal Ksawery Poniatowski’s Missa
in F. |
Kosciol
Bozego Ciala church at Bozego Ciala street and Sw.
Wawrzynca street. |
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July
17th, Sunday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
noon
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Poland’s
pianist Pawel Wakarecy plays Chopin’s nocturnes in
E flat major op. 55 no. 2 and in e minor op. 72,
four preludes op. 28 nos. 1 to 4 plus two preludes
op. 28 nos. 9 and 10, two mazurkas op. 24 (in g
minor and in C major), waltz in E flat major op. 18,
and polonaise in A major op. 40, Ignacy Jan
Paderewski’s polonaise in H major op. 9 no. 6 and
Juliusz Zarebski’s Grand Polonaise in F sharp
major op. 6. |
Jagiellonian
University’s Collegium Novum building, 24 Golebia
street at Planty gardens.
|
| 8:30
p.m. |
Concert
‘Music of the Polish Royal Chapel’ features
Poland’s Baroque orchestra, Accademia d'Arcadia,
performing Poland’s early church music. |
Cloister
of Kosciol OO. Franciszkanow church, Franciszkanska
street at Planty gardens |
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July
18th, Monday |
|
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
| 7:00
p.m. |
Ireland’s
soprano Helen Kearns and France’s pianist Francois
Dumont perform Karol Szymanowski’s Seven Songs op.
54 (with James Joyce’s words) and Francis
Poulenc’s Huit chansons polonaises. |
Jagiellonian
University’s Collegium Novum building, 24 Golebia
street at Planty gardens.
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July
19th, Tuesday |
|
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
| 7:00
p.m. |
Poland’s
TWOgether Duo of cellist Magdalena Bojanowicz and
accordionist Maciej Frackiewicz perform Polish
contemporary classical music, namely Zbigniew
Bargielski’s Labirynt, Rafal Janiak’s After
Hours of Muteness, Cezary Duchnowski’s cROSSFAdE,
Aleksander Nowak’s Satin, Rafal Zalech’s
Romans, Dariusz Przybylski’s Discours, and Hanna
Kulenty’s Preludium, Postludium, and
Psalm.
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Galicia
Museum at 18 Dajwor street. |
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July
20th, Wednesday |
|
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
| 7:00
p.m. |
Violinist
Janusz Wawrowski and Spain’s pianist Jose Gallardo
play Zygmunt Noskowski’s sonata in a minor, Szymon
Laks’s Polishe Suite, Franciszek Brzezinski’s
sonata in D major op. 6, and Jozef Nowakowski’s
duo in A major. |
Jagiellonian
University’s Collegium Novum building, 24 Golebia
street at Planty gardens. |
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July
21st, Thursday |
|
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
|
5:00
p.m. |
Screening
of video recording of Mieczys³aw Weinberg’s
(a.k.a. Moishe Vainberg) opera The Passenger staged
at Bregenzer Festspiele in 2010. |
Manggha
Museum at 26 Konopmickiej street. |
10:00
p.m.
|
Poland’s
Poznan Teatr Wielki opera company produces Karol
Szymanowski’s Mandragora. |
Courtyard
of the Jagiellonian University’s Collegium
Nowodworskiego at 12 Sw. Anny street. |
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July
22nd, Friday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:00
p.m. |
USA’s
outstanding Kronos Quartet play Bryce Dessner’s
Aheym (Homeward), Olga Hans’s String Quartet no. 5
‘Winter Lay’, Henryk M. Gorecki’s Genesis I:
Elementi op. 19 no. 1, Yechiel Karniol’s (arr.
Jugith Berkson) Sim Shalom, Hanna Kulenty’s String
Quartet no. 4, Ken Walicki’s nada Brahma, and Mark
Nowakowski’s String Quartet no. 4 ‘Grandfather
Songs’. |
Flharmonia
Krakowska concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. |
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July
23rd, Saturday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
|
7:00
p.m. |
Soprano
Aleksandra Buczek, tenor Xu Chang, baritone
Michal Partyka, bass Yasushi Hirano, tenor Juraj
Holly, Jadwiga Postrozna, Cracow Philharmonic Choir,
and Krakow Festival Orchestra with Italy’s
conductor Massimiliano Caldi perform Jozef Michal
Ksawery Poniatowski’s opera ‘Pierre de
Medicis’. |
Flharmonia
Krakowska concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. |
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July
24th,
Sunday |
|
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
|
noon |
Russia’s
pianist Nikolay Khozyainov renders Chopin’s bolero
in a minor op. 19, scherzo in E major op. 54,
fantasia in f minor op. 49, and sonata in h minor op
58. |
Jagiellonian
University’s Collegium Novum building, 24 Golebia
street at Planty gardens.
|
8:30
p.m.
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Sopranos
Sabine von Walther and Manuela Leonhartsberger, alto
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, tenors Thomas Ebenstein
and Kirlianit Cortes, bass Liudas Mikalauskas,
Cracow Philharmonic Choir, and Krakow Festival
Orchestra with conductor Kaspar Zehnder perform
Jozef Elsner’s Solemnis Coronationis Missa in C
op.51 and Karol Kurpinski’s Te Deum. |
Kosciol
OO. Franciszkanow church, Franciszkanska street at
Planty gardens.
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Tickets
Culture Information Center at
2 Sw. Jana Street
and
tourist information centers at
25 Szpitalna st.,
7 Jozefa st.
or
Box office in the Fliharmonia hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street.
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