Program of the 2023 Bach Days music festival in
Krakow.
/27. Dni
Bachowskie/
March 28th to April 1st, 2023
Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please,
that the following program is liable to alterations.
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March 28th, Tuesday |
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7:00
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Krakow’s Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra plus harpsichordist Marek Toporowski and cellist Teresa Kaminska render Johann Christian Bach’s Sinfonia B-dur op. 3 no. 4 W C4, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach’s harpsichord concerto in E-flat BR JCFB C 29, Johann Christian Bach’s Sinfonia g-moll op. 6 no. 6 W C12 and Sinfonia D-dur op. 18 no. 4
(admission 40 PLN).
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Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
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March 29th, Wednesday |
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7:00
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Concert The Baroque Potpourri 1 features Krakow’s young instrumentalists playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Adagio G-dur BWV 968 and sonata no. 6 in G BWV 1019a, Georg Philipp Telemann’s concerto in B for three oboes and two violins TWV 44:43, Antonio Vivaldi’s concerto in H minor for four violins RV 580, Giuseppe Valentini’s Concerto grosso a-moll for four
violins op. 7 no. 11, and Antonio Vivaldi’s concerto in A minor for two violins RV 522 (free admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
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March 30th, Thursday |
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Venue |
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5:00 p.m. |
Concert The Baroque Potpourri 2 features Krakow’s young instrumentalists and vocalists performing Georg Philip Telemann’s ‘ Ertrage nur das Joch der Mangel’ cantata TWV 1:479, Johann Sebastian Bach’s English Suite in G minor BWV 808, Johann David Heinichen±s Trio c-moll for oboe, viola da gamba and basso continuo SeiH 254, Johann Sebastian Bach±s Six Little Preludes BWV 933-938, and Louis Antoine Lefebvre±s ‘Andromede’
cantata for voice, two violins, and basso continuo (free
admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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Venue |
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7:00 p.m. |
Concert Dowland vs Hume features Krakow’s young instrumentalists playing John Dowland’s ‘The King of Denmark’s Galiard’, Tobias Hume’s ‘The King of Denmark’s delight’ and ‘Death & Life’, John Dowland’s ‘Semper Dowland semper dolens’, ‘Lachrimae Antiquae Novae’, and ‘Lachryme’, Tobias Hume’s ‘Captaine Humes Lamentations’ and ‘The Pashion of Musicke’, John Dowland’s ‘The Earle of
Essex Galiard’ and ‘Mistresse Nicols Almand’, Dietrich Buxtehude’s Trio sonata g-moll op. 2 no. 3 BuxWV 261, Ernst Gottlieb Baron’s Concerto d-moll for lute and flute, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger’s Sarabande, Claudio Monteverdi’s ‘Laudate Dominum’, Anonymous ‘Aria di Firenze’, Giulio Caccini’s Fere selvaggie, and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger’s Ciaccona (free
admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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March 31st, Friday |
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Event |
Venue |
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7:00
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Krakow’s flutists Rodrigo Barata, Bozhena Hamar, Julie Kucerová, Marie Nezdarilova, Olivia Petryszak, Noga Rubanenko, and Zsofia Santa render Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonata a 7 flauti, Antonio Bertali’s Sonatella a 5 flauti,William Brade’s Paduana & Galliard, followed by flutist Olivia Petryszak, oboist Maria Swigost, cellist Teresa Kaminska, and harpsichordist Wiktor Chirowski playing John Loeillet’s sonata no. 4 in D
minor, followed by violinist Aleksandra Owczarek, cellist Aleksandra Buczynska-Kusak, and harpsichordist Klaudia Loboda playing Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s sonata in F C140, sonata ‘Crucifixion’, and sonata in C minor C143,(free admission). |
Kosciol sw. Marcina church at 58 Grodzka street. |
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April 1st, Saturday |
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Event |
Venue |
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11:00
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Concert Matinée Bach: New Generation features Krakow’s harpsichordists Maria Erdman and Szymon Paruzel playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s English Suite in A minor BWV 807, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach’s sonata in C minor Wq 65/31, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fantasia chromatica BWV 903, and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach’s Rondo e minor ‘Abschied von meinem Silbermannischen Claviere’ Wq 66, followed by pianists Petra Matějová, Magdalena
Smrokowska, and Jiayi Ge playing (respectively) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Fantasia in C Wq59/6 H284, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach’s 12 Polonaises F12, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Rondo in B Wq 58/5 H 267, followed by pianist Katarzyna Drogosz playing Johann Christian Bach’s sonata in C minor op. 17 no. 2 (free admission). |
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza street. |
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Venue |
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7:00
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Concert of Baroque music features Krakow’s soprano Samuela Lach and alto Zuzanna Topolska plus flutist Rodrigo Barata, violinists Olena Kholodkova and Anna Mar Vidal Farion, violist Dominika Garncarz, viola player Karina Krychun, harpsichordists Elzbieta Ziarnik and Weronika Hryniewicka performing Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat mater, followed by flutist Rodrigo Barata, viola player Agata Sanchez-Martos, and harpsichordist Elzbieta
Ziarnik playing Georg Philipp Telemann’s sonata in D minor, followed by soprano Gabriela Soltys and harpsichordist Marek Toporowski performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s’Quia respexit’ aria from Magnificat BWV 243, followed by soprano Karolina Augustyn, trumpeter Artur Kowalczuk, and harpsichordist Marek Toporowski rendering Georg Friedrich Handel’s ‘Let the bright Seraphim’ aria from Samson oratorio HWV 57, followed by
soprano Mariola Siepak and harpsichordist Marek Toporowski performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Aus Liebe’ aria from St Matthew Passion BWV 244, followed by soprano Elzbieta Pikon, trumpeter Szymon Gwozdz, and harpsichordist Marek Toporowski rendering Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Jauchzet Gott’ aria from cantata no. 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV 51 (free admission). |
Aula Florianka concert hall at 15 Sereno Fenna
street. |
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Admission to the concerts of the Bach Days festival is free of
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