La Folle Journée de Varsovie
La Danse

(35) Dances with Orchestra

THE CLASSICS

Eitetsu Hayashi – taiko
Sinfonia Varsovia
Bassem Akiki – conductor
Marta Żabka, Sławomir Greś – dance
Ada Wdziękońska – host

Edvard Grieg: Arabian Dance from the suite Peer Gynt No. 2 Op. 55
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor
Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op. 72 No. 2 (Starodávny)
Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galanta 
Isao Matsushita: Ten-Chi-Kyo-O Concerto No. 2 for taiko
Aram Khachaturian: Waltz from the suite Masquerade 
Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from the ballet Gayane

This is the eighth time already that La Folle Jourée is held in Warsaw. The music festival is addressed to everybody, without exception. What should you expect? Over 1000 artists and more than 50 concerts over only three days. Where? At the Teatr Wielki’s different spaces and on the Teatralny Square. The programme includes a variety of original musical pieces spanning different epochs: you will hear compositions by Chopin, Brahms, Schubert, and Piazzolla performed by world-class Polish and international artists. The theme of this year’s edition is dance, or 'la danse' in French. In the words of René Martin, the festival’s artistic director, 'Dance, especially folk dance, has played a very important role in the development of classical music. If you listen carefully to famous concertos and symphonies, you’ll find elements of dance everywhere. Folk tradition has greatly influenced the oeuvre of all composers’.