La Folle Journée de Varsovie: Treasures from the Instrument Market (22)

The 14th edition of the Festival: ORIGINS | TICKETS AVAILABLE ON EVENTIM.PL

28 September 2024 Saturday 15:00 EARTH Hall (Młynarski Hall)

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Traditional instrument makers and players:
Stanisław Nogaj, Paweł Płoskoń hurdy-gurdy
Mark Kudriashov, Krzysztof Strzelecki celesta
Monika Sobolewska, Piotr Alexander Nowak nyckelharpa

Piotr Piszczatowski host
Dorota Piszczatowska and Piotr Piszczatowski photography

The hurdy-gurdy, nyckelharpa and celesta: we don’t hear about them every day, and yet they play so beautifully! The ones we will see were created quite recently, somewhere close by, perhaps a few streets from your, our home? Tenderly nurtured in the privacy of their studios, they are sometimes created over many years... Perhaps that is why we know so little about them? Today, their creators will play on them along with their friends. The concert and stories will be accompanied by Piotr and Dorota Piszczatowski’s photos from their many years of trips to the instrument makers.

Szalone Dni Muzyki (La Folle Journée de Varsovie) returns in 2024 with a rich and varied selection of 56 concerts over a period of three days. This year’s festival theme is Origins. And a journey to the origins is a fascinating expedition! We will wander towards nature: to the murmur of gushing water and birdsong, but also to ancient ways of human communication – primordial rhythm or traditional calling and singing. We will look at traditional instruments and folk inspirations in both classical music and jazz. We will reach out to the great works of the classical canon, such as Bach’s Goldberg Variations (no. 51), Mozart’s operas (no. 9), the symphonies of Beethoven and Dvořák (nos. 23, 47), Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (no. 27), Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (nos. 32, 53) and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (nos. 1, 48, 55). These are “original” works for the cultural formation of modern audiences, and they are an inexhaustible mine of inspiration for subsequent generations, drawing on these sources to the fullest.