The Autumn edition of the 2018 ORGANy PLUS+ Festival will take place in the Franciscan Holy Trinity church in Gdańsk between September 27 and October 7. This year's edition will celebrate the 400th jubilee of Marten Friese's organ installed at the church.
This year, seventy years after the end of World War II and following fifteen years of persistent efforts and ten years of hard restoration and organ-building works we will have the first occasion to admire the full sound power of the instrument rebuilt at the Franciscan Holy Trinity church in the Old Suburb of Gdańsk to the full. Coincidently, the year 2018 also marks 400 years since this unique instrument was built. The already fourth edition of the ORGANy PLUS+ festival will be an occasion to celebrate and listen to exquisite music played from the musical rood loft, the only one in Poland, reverberating in the Gothic interior untouched for 500 years, its acoustics unattainable anywhere else.
The concerts are also an attempt to revive the specific musical tradition and reality of the old Gdańsk. On Monday, October 1, Ensemble Hildebrandt 1719 conducted by an exquisite organ player of the young generation Krzysztof Urbaniak will present Polish liturgical music of the second half of the seventeenth century under the common title: ‘Between Warsaw and Gdańsk’. We will hear works by Merulo, Różycki, Szarzyński, Siefert, and Neunhaber. The final concert, on Sunday, October 7, will feature Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett and Schola Cantorum of the Chair of Church Music of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk who will perform liturgical works from the Jan from Lublin Tablature.
And should anyone wish to broaden his/her knowledge and perfect the skills, he/she will have an opportunity to do so during the International Organological Conference "Musica Sacra – Ars Organisandi" and the workshops devoted to playing the organ and the carillon, improvisation, and Gregorian chant.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
Full programme available at: www.organyplus.com
