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58^th International Andrzej Markowski Festival Wratislavia Cantans - one of the most important classical music events in Europe - will take place in Lower Silesia on September 7-17, 2023. The theme of this year's edition will be ‘Mother Nature’.

Founded in 1966 by Andrzej Markowski as an oratorio and cantata festival, Wratislavia Cantans to this day focuses primarily on presenting the beauty of the human voice. The title of this year's edition was inspired by the oratorio The Seasons by Joseph Haydn. During the festival, we will look at how people understand nature, relate to it and how they perceive their relationships with it since the dawn of time. In each concert there will be a reference to this motif, existing in the works of not only old composers, but also contemporary ones. There will also be the topic of motherhood and its cultural connections with nature - both in the biblical and anthropological context - we will hear, among others, Krzysztof Penderecki's Cosmogony.

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On the 18^th of March, 2023, the name Franciszek Mirecki will be given to the 1st degree Music School in Dobczyce. It will be the first school in Poland named after this famous composer, pianist and teacher.

Thanks to the success of Franciszek Mirecki's operas in Italy and the publication of his works abroad, he is now considered the first Polish composer to gain recognition abroad.

As part of the ceremony, a Holy Mass will be held at the Church of St. Our Lady Help of Christians in Dobczyce, unveiling of a commemorative plaque, opening of the exhibition ‘Franciszek Mirecki - fame and oblivion’, organized in cooperation with the Library of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, a lecture by Barbara Ostafin devoted to the work of F. Mirecki and a concert. Mirecki's music will be presented by artists from the Lesser Poland Voivodeship: Cracov Singers, harpsichordist Elżbieta Stefańska, organist Jakub Kapała, conductors Marek Hampel and Magdalena Irzyk, cellist Julia Rzazonka and pianist Sabina Kołodziej; we will also hear the Choir of the Primary Music School in Dobczyce ‘Vox Coelestis’. There will also be a special guest of the ceremony - French baroque flute virtuoso Jean-Pierre Menuge.

School's website: https://szkolamuzyczna.dobczyce.pl/ 

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Compositions by Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Robert Schumann will be performed by the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Szymon Makowski on the 17^th of March, 2023 at 19.00. The world-renowned Ukrainian pianist Olga Zado will perform as a soloist.

More: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/lebhaft-to-znaczy-z-zyciem/ 

On the 17^th of March, 2023 at 7.00 pm the Świętokrzyska Philharmonic invites you to a symphonic concert, during which the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jacek Rogala, will premiere the work by Marta Ptaszyńska Landscapes from Imagination and will present Maurice Ravel's Bolero and Karol Szymanowski's Fourth Symphony Concertante. Pianist Marian Sobula will perform as a soloist.

The five-part, virtuoso composition for symphony orchestra by Marta Ptaszyńska, commissioned by the Philharmonic, is inspired by paintings that depict fantasy landscapes that do not exist in reality, being a product of the painters' imagination. An interesting fact is the use of cymbals and very extensive percussion in the score.

The concert on the 90^th anniversary of the birth of composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki will take place in the Jasna Góra Basilica on the 16^th of March, 2023 at 18.00. The composer's works will be presented by the Częstochowa Philharmonic Choir. Free entrance!

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki would celebrate his 90^th birthday this year. On this occasion, the Choir of the Częstochowa Philharmonic Collegium Cantorum, prepared by Janusz Siadlak will perform in the Jasna Góra Basilica. The conductor will be Włodzimierz Siedlik awarded many times for his achievements in the field of choral music, who is particularly interested in choral music of the 20^th century. As a result of their joint work, a programme was created that will surely reach a wider audience and pay a worthy tribute to Górecki's memory.

The concert will be open to the inhabitants of Częstochowa and guests of this city.

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