Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, César Franck and Henryk Jan Botor are just some of the composers whose works will be performed by the Licheń Basilica Choir in its first concert of the season. The event entitled "Stabat Mater" will take place after 12.00 p.m. mass, on Sunday, 4 October 2020 in the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń.
The "Stabat Mater" Choir conducted by Jacek Hyżny will perform together with the soloists: Anita Furgol-Kownacka (soprano) and Ewa Budzińska (soprano), as well as the organist Andrzej Chorosiński, professor of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
The programme will include Panis angelicus from Messe à troi voix, Op. 12 by César Franck, Ave verum corpus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as Stabat Mater – a title work by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, composed to the words of the 13th-century Lenten sequence. Contemporary music will be represented by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Pie Jesu from Requiem, Henryk Jan Botor's Deus Caritas est and Norbert Blacha's Prayer for Peace.
The choir will be accompanied on the great organ of the Licheń Basilica by the creator of its sound concept, professor Andrzej Chorosiński. The former rector of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music will also present instrumental works: César Franck's Andantino in G minor and Théodore Dubois' Toccata in G major.
The concert will be broadcast on the Licheń Basilica website www.lichen.pl, its Facebook page and YouTube channel.