Mahler and Schumann? Alma and Clara, of course! This year’s Sinfonietta Festival under the banner Sinfonietta Is a Woman is dedicated to women of music: composers, instrumentalists, singers and muses. The celebration of chamber music organised by Sinfonietta Cracovia features songs by Alma Mahler performed by the mezzo-soprano Ulrike Helzel from the Vienna Opera, A Maiden’s Prayer – a huge hit at 19th-century salons by Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, originally written for piano and adapted for various string ensembles – and two concerts starring Soyoung Yoon. The winner of the H. Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2011 appears alongside the Orion String Trio to perform works by Beethoven, Schubert and Dohnányi on 3 July; she returns for the festival finale with Bach’s Concerto in D minor for two violins, joined by Amelia Maszońska. The hugely popular clubbing with chamber music event returns , resounding with music by Grażyna Bacewicz, Louise Farrenc, Rebecca Clarke, Clara Schumann… The special guest of the event is the Lethiec Trio of the acclaimed French clarinettist Michel Lethiec and his daughters Saskia (violin) and Karine (viola). Festival concerts resound at the courtyards, rooms and gardens of the National Museum in Krakow (including Cracovia Hotel!). The only exception is Grigory Frid’s operatic monodrama Diary of Anne Frank (dir. Rebekah Rota): the performance by the soprano Ewa Majcherczyk is staged at the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Kazimierz. (Barbara Skowrońska)
30 June 2017 | Friday | 7:30pm
Gallery of the 19th-century Polish Art in Sukiennice
Love, Death and the Maiden
Ulrike Helzel – mezzo-soprano
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Jurek Dybał – conductor
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska A Maiden’s Prayer Op. 4, arr. for strings
Alma Mahler In meines Vaters Garten, Laue Sommernacht (songs arr. for mezzo-soprano, strings and harp)
Gustav Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Gustav Mahler Rückert-Lieder for mezzo-soprano, strings and harp, arr. Richard Dünser
Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta winnign composition of the Composition Competition under the honorary patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Penderecki
Franz Schubert String Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden” D.810, arr. by Gustav Mahler for string orchestra
Tickets: PLN 50 | 25
Dear Readers,
we would like to inform you that in the print version of „Karnet” monthly 06/2017 we published incorrect information about free entry to the Sinfonietta Festival concert on 30 June. The concert is ticketed, the tickets (prices PLN 50/25) are available on Ticketpro.pl and Eventim.pl, and in the selected InfoKraków tourist information points.
We kindly apologise for the mistake to both our Readers and the Organiser of the concert.
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1 July 2017 | Saturday | start 5pm* | start of the finale 8:30pm
Chamber Clubbing
* All artists will play their repertoire three times, starting their concerts simultaneously in different locations at 5pm, 6:15pm and 7:30pm. The 45-minute long “rounds” will be separated by breaks (lasting 30 minutes) to enable the listeners moving from one location to another. The chamber clubbing will be rounded up by a finale by the Lethiec Trio accompanied by the musiscians of the Sinfonetta Cracovia orchestra at 8:30pm in the garden of Józef Mehoffer House. Admission free
Cracovia Hotel
Dafô Quartet:
Justyna Duda-Krane – violin I
Danuta Augustyn – violin II
Aneta Dumanowska – viola
Anna Armatys-Borelli – cello
Grażyna Bacewicz String Quartet No. 4
Sofia Gubaidulina String Quartet No. 2
Clara Schumann Three Romances Op. 22, arr. for string quartet
Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik Prayer
Courtyard of Józef Czapski Pavilion
Cordes Classiques:
Piotr Marciak – violin I
Marcin Kmiecik – violin II
Ryszard Sneka – viola
Tomasz Wyroba – cello
Franz Schubert String Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden” D.810
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska A Maiden’s Prayer Op. 4, arr. for string quartet
Józef Mehoffer House
Malawski Trio:
Maciej Lulek – violin
Barbara Łypik-Sobaniec – cello
Sławomir Cierpik – piano
Louise Farrenc Piano Trio in E minor Op. 45
Dora Pejačević Piano Trio in C major Op. 29
Lethiec Trio:
Saskia Lethiec – violin
Karine Lethiec – viola
Michel Lethiec – clarinet
Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor Op. 17, part I (Allegro moderato)
Rebecca Clarke Prelude, Allegro, Pastorale for clarinet and violin
Édith Canat de Chizy En mille éclats
8:30pm | finale
Garden of Józef Mehoffer House
Lethiec Trio:
Saskia Lethiec – violin
Karine Lethiec – viola
Michel Lethiec – clarinet
musicians of Sinfonietta Cracovia orchestra:
Aleksandra Honcel-Banek – violin
Adam Woźniak – cello
Jurek Dybał – double bass
George Gershwin Porgy and Bess (opera suite for clarinet and strings)
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2 July 2017 | Sunday | 7pm
Museum of Municipal Engineering
Anne Frank
Ewa Majcherczyk – soprano
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Rebekah Rota – direction
Jurek Dybał – musical direction
Grigory Frid Diary of Anne Frank, opera in 2 acts and 21 scenes for soprnao and chamber orchestra, libretto: Grigory Frid based on the book Diary of Anne Frasnk Dziennik Anne Frank
Tickets: PLN 40 | 20
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3 July 2017 | Monday | 6pm
Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace
Woman’s Touch
Orion String Trio:
Soyoung Yoon – violin
Veit Hertenstein – viola
Benjamin Gregor-Smith – cello
musicians of Sinfonietta Cracovia orchestra:
Maciej Lulek – violin
Marcin Mączyński – cello
Ludwig van Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3
Ernst von Dohnányi Serenade in C major for string trio Op. 10
Franz Schubert String Quintet in C major D.956, part I (Allegro ma non troppo) and IV (Allegretto)
Tickets: PLN 30 | 15
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4 July 2017 | Tuesday | 7:30pm
Gallery of the 19th-century Polish Art in Sukiennice
La donna è mobile
Soyoung Yoon – violin / artistic direction
Amelia Maszońska – violin
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Henryk Czyż Canzona di barocco
Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV 1043
Astor Piazzolla Cuatro estaciones porteñas
Tickets: PLN 50 | 25
