It is common knowledge that birthday is best celebrated in a circle of friends. Krzysztof Baculewski will celebrate his 70th birthday on 30 October 2021 at 6.00 p.m. with Camerata Silesia, an ensemble he has been collaborating with for nearly three decades now.

Baculewski joins the achievements of contemporary musical language with a tradition established by great masters. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine more suitable interpreters of his works than the Silesian singers who are equally skilled in performing music from various eras, from the Renaissance to the present time. Except Nox ultima, nox beata, all the pieces in the programme were composed with Camerata in mind, while The Profane Anthem to Anne, blending the qualities of timbre with the spirit of Henry Purcell’s baroque, was the beginning of the composer and Anna Szostak’s joint artistic way. We are also going to enjoy the concert premiere of Glosa – a sonoristic (compliant with the title) commentary on art and the surrounding reality, which premiered virtually in 2020.

The concert will also feature the premiere of Krzysztof Baculewski’s latest composition L'ordre règne à Varsovie for soloists quartet, 8-voice mixed choir and string quintet. "'L'ordre règne à Varsovie' – is a visual commentary on the statements of the French foreign minister Horace Sébastiani, published in the daily 'Le Moniteur' by the famous nineteenth-century graphic artist, illustrator and caricaturist Grandville in September 1831,"  writes the composer about the sources of his inspiration. "Anyway – this sentence can be ironically applied to many other situations, both historical and present. Grandville's lithography in combination with Julian Tuwim's morality play create a pair of intellectual tools for viewing reality, to which the undersigned allowed himself to add music. On 21 October 2021, 190 years have passed since the fall of the November Uprising."

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Tickets: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/camerata-silesia-baculewski-koncert-z-okazji-70-rocznicy-uro