Program of the 2019 Bach Days music festival in
Krakow.
/24. Dni
Bachowskie/
March 24th to March 31st, 2019
Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please,
that the following program is liable to alterations.
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March 24th, Sunday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
7:00
p.m. |
Concert Café Zimmermann features Poland’s
soprano Annika Mikolajko, tenor Bartlomiej Chorazy,
and bass Beniamin Rafinski plus Krakow‘s Academy of
Music Baroque Orchestra performing G. Ph.
Telemann’s Overture TWV 55:D18, J.S. Bach‘s Schweigt
stille, plaudert nicht BWV 211, Johann Georg
Pisendel’s Violin Concerto D, and Johann
David Heinichen‘s Concerto in G Seibel 213 Hausswald
1,7a (free
admission).
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Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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March 25th, Monday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
7:00
p.m.
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Concert Musical Offering features
Krakow’s harpsichordists Klaudia Loboda and Natalia
Olczak playing J.S. Bach’s concerto in C major for
two harpsichords BWV 1061 followed by flutist
Malgorzata Wojciechowska, violinist Agnieszka
Swiatkowska, cellist Teresa Kaminska, and
harpsichordist Aleksander Mocek playing J.S. Bach’s
Musicalisches Opfer BWV 1079 (free admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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March 26th, Tuesday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
7:00 p.m. |
Concert Cantata Bach features Poland’s
soprano Maria Babicz and tenor Piotr Windak plus
oboists Katarzyna Pilipiuk, Michala Peskova,
Weronika Potepa, and Zofia Trystula-Hovhannisyan,
viola da gamba player Christoph Urbanetz, violinist
Aleksandra Owczarek, cellist Aleksandra Buczynska,
bassist Rafal Gorczynski, positive organist NengYi
Chen, and harpsichordist Andrzej Zawisza performing
Johann Caspar Gleditsch’s music, Johann Sebastian
Bach’s arias Ich halt es mit dem lieben Gott
aria BWV 52, Gerechter Gott, ach, rechnest du
BWV 89, Ach senke doch den Geist der Freuden
BWV 73, Ich will an den Himmel denken BWV
166, Hort, ihr Augen, auf zu weinen BWV 98,
and Nun mogt ihr stolzen Feinde schrecken BWV
248, trio for oboe d’amore, viola da gamba,
and basso continuo, arias Ruhig und in sich
zufrieden BWV 204, Ich esse mit Freuden
BWV 84, and Lass uns, o hochster Gott, das Jahr
vollbringen BWV 41 (free
admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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March 27th, Wednesday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
7:00
p.m. |
Concert Ars Transcribendi features
Poland’s violinist Zbigniew Pilch playing
transcriptions for solo violin of J.S. Bach’s
prelude in C minor BWV 999, sonata in C major BWV
1033, prelude, fugue and allegro in E flat major BWV
998, and toccata and fugue in D minor BWV 56
followed by oboist Katarzyna Czubek and
harpsichordist Adam Jastrzebski playing J.S Bach’s Schmucke
dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654, sonata no. 5 BWV
529, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 659,
Trio super Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 660,
sonata no. 3 BWV 527, Die Kunst der Fuge BWV
1080 Contrapunctus XIV, and Vor deinen
Thron tret ich hiermit BWV 668 (free admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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March 28th, Thursday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
7:00
p.m. |
Concert Supper for Two features Poland’s
harpsichordist Karolina Wrobel playing Johann
Sebastian Bach’s Partita in B major BWV 825,
followed by violinist Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch playing
Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Partita E BWV 1006,
and finally flutist Michaela Koudelkova and
harpsichordist Andrzej Zawisza playing Georg Philipp
Telemann’s Sonata in C major TWV 41:C5 and Suite in
A major, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata in E
major BWV 1035, prelude, fugue, and allegro in E
flat major BWV 998, and Trio Sonata in C
major BWV 529 (free admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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March 29th, Friday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
7:00
p.m. |
Concert Concerto Bach features Poland’s
harpsichordists Elzbieta Stefanska, Klaudia Rogala,
Zofia Satala, and Karolina Wrobel, violinists
Zbigniew Pilch, Katarzyna Olszewska, Paulina Wos,
and Aleksandra Owczarek, and oboist Katarzyna
Pilipiuk playing J.S. Bach’s concerto in C minor BWV
1060, A. Vivaldi’s concerto in H minor for four
violins op. 3/10 RV 580, and J.S. Bach’s
concerto in C minor BWV 1060 for two harpsichords
and concerto in A minor for four harpsichords BWV
1065 (free
admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
March 30th, Saturday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
7:00
p.m. |
USA’s harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson renders
Louis Couperin’s Prelude and Passacaille, Johann
Jakob Froberger’s Lamentation, Jean-Henri
D’Anglebert’s Prelude and Passacaille d’Armide,
Johann Jakob Froberger’s Lamentation,
Louis Couperin’s Prelude and Chaconne, Johann Jakob
Froberger’s Meditation faite sur ma mort future,
Jean-Henri D’Anglebert’s Prelude and Chaconne
de Phaeton, John Dowland’s Lachrimae (Flow My
Tears), Francois Couperin’s Prelude and
Chaconne (La Favorite), Johann Jakob
Froberger’s Tombeau sur la mort de M. Blancrocher,
Jean-Henri D’Anglebert’s Prelude, Louis
Couperin’s Chaconne and Tombeau de M.
Blancrocher (free admission) |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
March 31th, Sunday |
Hour |
Event |
Venue |
noon |
Concert Mattinee New Generation features
Poland’s pianists Aleksandra Dabek, Martyna Chmiel, Radek
Gozdzikowski, Bartosz Parszewski, Eliza Pawlowska, Maria
Slysz, Katarzyna Drogosz, and Petra Matìjova playing
music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm
Friedemann Bach, Johann Christian Bach, and Johann
Christoph Friedrich Bach (free admission).
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Akademia Muzyczna
conservatory, 43 sw. Tomasza street. |
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