This special evening on 30 September 2021 at 7 p.m. will surely be particularly romantic, thanks to the farewell concert programme. The NFM Choir, well known to Wrocław audiences, led for the last time by Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, will perform at the National Forum of Music.
The concert features works very close to Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny and performed many times by the NFM Choir during fifteen years of work under her direction. The programme includes pieces performed at the beginning of the choir's existence – such as Anton Bruckner's gradual Os justi meditabitur sapientiam – as well as those presented a little later, e.g. Stoi lód na Prośnie by Jacek Sykulski, a piece performed during the concert on the 10th anniversary of the choir's activity, and completely new ones, including Marek Raczyński's Chciałbym zaśpiewać Ci to text by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, which was premiered last year. The second criterion in the selection of pieces for this exceptional concert was the willingness to show the diversity of the choir's repertoire. Hence, the programme includes sacred compositions of three Christian churches: Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Evangelical. The second half of the concert will present the choir's secular repertoire. It will feature both French Impressionist and German Romantic compositions. The two contrasting parts of the concert will be linked by Jan Krotul's Vulnerasti cor meum to the text from the biblical Song of Songs, specially commissioned by the National Forum of Music.
The programme will aso feature religious compositions recorded on the last two albums of the NFM Choir: De profundis (2016) and Ubi caritas (2018), including contemporary Polish choral works to biblical psalms, such as Ubi Caritas by Paweł Łukaszewski, Chwali, dusze moja, Gospoda by Romuald Twardowski, Beatus vir by Miłosz Bembinow or De profundis by Marcin Łukaszewski. We will listen to three choral motets a cappella: Anton Bruckner's Os justi meditabitur sapientiam, Francis Poulenc's Magnum Mysterium and Felix Mendelssohn's Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen. Two pieces with piano accompaniment performed by Katarzyna Neugebauer-Jastrzębska will certainly stand out from the rest of the compositions: Vulnerasti cor meum and Madrigale, Op. 35 by Gabriel Fauré.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
More information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/en/component/nfmcalendar/event/8665