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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On September 10–17, 2022, the 14th International Festival ‘Music on the Heights’ will take place in Zakopane. Many great musical experiences await the audience throughout the week. The repertoire will maintain a perfect balance between the music of bygone eras and the art of our times.

We will recall the works of genius artists associated with Zakopane - Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, but also string trios by Schubert, Wajnberg, Maciejewski and Krzysztof Penderecki, the artist who was a festival guest in 2018.

There will also be popular works by baroque masters or accents related to the Year of Polish Romanticism. Among the festival performers there will be a number of new names, headed by the charismatic soprano Katarzyna Hołysz, who will present, among others, songs by Polish and Russian composers inspired by Adam Mickiewicz's Ballades and Romance. Well-known musicians will also perform at the Festival: violinist Piotr Pławner, cellist Rafał Kwiatkowski, violist Katarzyna Budnik, Cracow Clarinet Quartet, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki String Quartet or the Whoop Group, saxophone quartet, which evokes great enthusiasm of the audience.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the culture promotion fund as part of the ‘Music programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

After a note of Magdalena Polańska

Festival website: https://muzykanaszczytach.com/ 

Patronat medialny nad projektem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Porta Musicae Artistic Association invites you to a special evening at the Wawel Royal Castle. On September 11th, at 7 p.m. in the Senators' Hall, we will go on a journey through the world of legends.

The musical interpretation of Cracow legends will be presented by the Cracow Golden Quintet, and the stories will be presented in words by Piotr Krasnowolski. During the concert, we will hear the extraordinary Wojciech Kilar's Quintet for wind instruments, composed by him at the age of only 20, as well as the premiere performance of arrangements of Cracow legends, composed by Aleksander Dębicz commissioned by the Cracow Golden Quintet. These are extremely interesting and colorful compositions in which individual characters are represented by specific instruments that create a fairy-tale sound that perfectly illustrates the events contained in the legends.

A mini-podcast will be available on the website https://anchor.fm/cracow-golden-quintet from the 4th of September: episodes of a word-music drama about Cracow's legends, which will be a kind of prelude to the concert

2022 is the 200^th birthday of an exceptional man – St. Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Archbishop of Warsaw and founder of the Sisters of the Family of Mary for the care of orphans who have been running houses in Białołęka for almost 100 years, where 200 Jewish children were rescued during the war. On this occasion, on the 11^th of September, 2022 at 19.15 in the Warsaw Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Klasyków 21 street, performance of a piece He was said to have lost by Jerzy Cembrzyński, written especially for this occasion will take place.

Warsaw Philharmonic, Polish Royal Opera and the Ave Choir will take part in the event conducted by Barbara Hijewska. The piece He was said to have lost for choir, soloists and orchestra consists of 11 musical images from the life of St. Zygmunt, which lead you through the most important events in his biography. Words based on the thoughts of St. Zygmunt were arranged by Bartłomiej Włodkowski. Jerzy Cembrzyński, a Grammy winner, composed suggestive and emotional music. The audience will find themselves in the heat of the fight near Trzebawa in 1848, they will witness Słowacki's death, they will hear Feliński's dramatic conversation with Fr. Mikoszewski, they will finally go to exile. Finally, they will enter the Warsaw cathedral with Cardinal Wyszyński

Admission free.

Booking of the seats: https://fundacjaave.pl/pl/mowiono-o-nim-ze-przegrak-koncert-11-ix-2022-g-19-15-rezerwacja-miejsc 

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 10^th of September, 2022 at 19.00 at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk will perform the premiere of the Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra by Tomasz Kamieniak. We will also hear works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Gioachino Rossini and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Krzysztof Jakowicz, Piotr Baron and Anna Krzysztofik-Buczyńska will be the concert soloists.

Tomasz Kamieniak is a composer of over two hundred piano, harpsichord, chamber and choral pieces as well as music to seven films. His new, three-part Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra (2021) was inspired by the art of Anna Krzysztofik-Buczyńska and is an interesting and creative discourse with tradition.

Admission to the concert is free!

Financed from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

More details: www.sinfoniaiuventus.pl

After a note of Piotr Maculewicz