Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Lenten concert entitled "Carmina Dolorosa" ("Sorrowful Songs") will feature songs understood literally and symbolically, as an instrumental meditation on the texts.
On the 10th of March, 2024 at 6 p.m., the Church of Creative Communities in Warsaw (Plac Teatralny 18) will host the premiere of Psalms and Songs of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh by Katarzyna Brochocka. Free entrance!
On one hand, Katarzyna Brochocka's compositions allude to the centuries, old history of works of a penitential and ascetic character. On the other hand, they introduce a new quality and a fresh perspective of a young but already recognised composer, living in our times and currently working in Warsaw. Brochocka's works are characterised by an expressive musical language, an extraordinary 'theatricality' of means of expression, which the artist combines with respect for the tradition and forms of previous eras.
The concert will feature two world premieres: Psalm 32 for bass voice and double bass and 'Songs of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh' for piano solo - a cycle of meditations on texts from the book of the prophet Isaiah. Psalms 16 and 131 in a new Latin version will also be heard in public for the first time. The repertoire will also include 'Soliloquia' for solo bass, a kind of 'songs without words' based on selected pericopes from the New Testament.
The piano for the concert is provided by KAWAI.