Held between 3 and 6 July, the 11th Musical Barbican Festival has a fascinating programme with a venue to match! The Cracow Guitar Quartet paints Musical Landscapes with colours courtesy of Boccherini’s Baroque Fandango, Machado’s Brazilian Dances, Brouwer’s Cuban Landscape with Rain and Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain. Anna Miernik presents piano masterpieces by Polish composers Chopin, Paderewski, Szymanowski and Nowowiejski. In The World’s Kaleidoscope – from Borodin to Piazzolla we will hear Maxim Salnikov on accordion and bandoneon with the Russian Camerata Orchestra under the baton of Andrei Kruzhkov. The finale features virtuosos of glass harp: the fascinating GlassDuo perform the suite from Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake, Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance No. 7 and Sting’s Fragile, all on an instrument made of… drinking glasses. The pair of musicians are accompanied by Russian Camerata under the baton of Piotr Sułkowski, founder and artistic director of the festival. (Barbara Skowrońska)
3 July 2018, 8pm »
Musical Landscapes
Cracow Guitar Quartet
L. Boccherini Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major G. 448 “Fandango”
M. Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain
L. Brouwer Cuban Landscape with Rain
P. Bellinati Baião de Gude
C. Debussy Rêverie
C. Machado Brazilian Dances
4 July 2018, 8pm »
Anna Miernik (piano)
I.J. Paderewski Waltz-Caprice Op. 10 No. 5
K. Szymanowski Etude in B flat minor Op. 4 No. 3
F. Nowowiejski Borowiak, Mazurka in F sharp minor Op. 20 No. 1
M. Moszkowski Spanish Capriccio
F. Chopin Nocturnes Op. 9 No. 1-3, Variations in B major Op. 12, Ballade in G minor Op. 23, Scherzo in B flat minor Op. 31
5 July 2018, 8pm »
The World’s Kaleidoscope – from Borodin to Piazzolla
Maxim Salnikov (bandoneon, accordion)
Russian Camerata Chamber Orchestra
Andrei Kruzhkov (conductor)
in programme: A. Borodin, V. Semenov, T.A. Nabiyev, M.A. Markes, R. Galliano, A. Tsfasman, K. Gardel, A. Piazzolla
6 July 2018, 8pm »
Glass Duo: Anna Szafraniec, Arkadiusz Szafraniec (glass harp)
Russian Camerata Chamber Orchestra
Piotr Sułkowski (conductor)
P. Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (ballet suite)
A. Dvořák Slavonic Dance No. 7
F. Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 9
A. Piazzolla Adiós Nonino
Sting Fragile
Z. de Abreu Tico-tico
A. Szafraniec Songueira
If the weather is bad, the cocnert will be held at Celestat, ul. Lubicz 16, at 8:15pm.
