La Folle Journée de Varsovie
La Danse

(41) Baroque madness

EARLY MUSIC

Hanna Bayodi-Hirt – soprano
Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot – conductor

'De la rue à la cour: passacailles, chaconnes, folies, musettes et tambourins'
Anonymous: Follias Antiguas
Diego Ortiz: Recercadas sobre Follia
Henri de Bailly: Passacalle: La Folie Yo soy la locura
Gaspar Sanz: Españoletas
Girolamo Kapsberger: Passacaglia
Jean Baptiste Lulli : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs Je languis nuit et jour, Airs du Maître à danser – Canarie Di rigori armata il seno, Chaconne des Scaramouches, Trivelins & Arlequin
Marin Marais: Couplets de folies
Jean Philippe Rameau: Airs à danser: Gavotte gaye Sur les Ombres fugitives, Sarabande Voici des Dieux l'Azile aimable, Tambourins, Chaconne, Loure un peu Gaye Ici se lève l'Aurore 
La Folie

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’.