Opera is built on paradoxes, therefore it is no wonder that the prologue of the Opera Rara Festival 2019 takes place in 2018 as Opera Rara Edu. We will hear a Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, a cycle of songs, already known to the festival audience. This time it resounds in an intimate, chamber version – with a piano accompaniment. Thje second concert will bring a recital for two violas da gamba and a harpsichord with works of two most-famous gambists in the history of music: Marin Marais (the master) and Saint-Colombe’a (his student). What they have in common with singing and opera? Well, the viola da gamba masters made sure that their instrument “sang” with the flexibility and ease of human voice. It’s no surprise that on of Marais’ works is titled Les voix humaines.
6 December 2018 (Thursday), 6pm
Wagner ex post Wagner ex ante
Marzena Lubaszka | soprano
Jacek Ozimkowski | bass
Wioletta Fluda | piano
Richard Wagner
- Wotans Abschied
- Wesendonck-Lieder
13 December 2018 (Thursday), 6pm
Rameau and His Time
Justyna Młynarczyk | viola da gamba
Piotr Młynarczyk | viola da gamba
Marcin Świątkiewicz | harpsichord
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe: Concert à deux violes esgales “Les Batteries”
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Prelude in g*
Jean-Philippe Rameau: L'Enharmonique*
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray: La Marella*
Marin Marais: Suite en Sol majeur à deux violes et basso continuo (Premier Livre des pièces de viole)
* harpsichord solo
