St. John’s Culture Center 22.05.2015
The Festival MUSICALICA BALTTICA is an event consisting of concerts and performances devoted to composers from around Baltic Sea. The festival opens series of events by which the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre wants to emphasize the role of Polish culture in the Baltic Sea Region. In July Poland will take the presidency in the Council of the Baltic Sea States. It will be a chance to popularize the cultural heritage of our region.
The latest event in the program is the very special concert “Master and…master. Bach and Müthel”.
Johann Gottfried Müthel knew Johann Sebastian Bach for just a couple of months in 1750. Probably he had the honour to take notes of the very last pieces of already blind master: “Chromatic Fantasy” and fragments of “Orgelbuchlein”. After Johann Sebstian Bach died, Gottfried Müthel took charge of Bach’s function in Leipzig.
Müthel’s style had more to do with works of other Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel. Those two composers co-created the idiom of proto-romantic aesthetics of “storm and pressure”. Rhythmic verve, melodic and dynamic capriciousness of their compositions serve their intense emotional expression. Performances of Johann Gottfried Müthel’s compositions are pioneered in Poland by “Arte dei Suonatori Orchestra”.
In the program of the concert we will hear three compositions:
Johann Gottfried Müthel – Harpsichord concert in D Major.
Johann Sebastian Bach – III Orchestra Suite D Major BWV 1068
Johann Gottfried Müthel – Harpsichord concert in C Minor
Performers:
Marcin Świątkiewicz – harpsichord
Orchestra Arte dei Suonatori: Aurelisz Goliński, Martyna Pastuszka, Karin Samuelsson, Ewa Golińsk, Jasenka Balic-Zunic, Anna Nowak-Pokrzywińska, Tomasz Pokrzywiński, Stanisław Smołka.
Marcin Świątkiewicz is one of the most recognized Polish harpsichord players of young generation. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in Hague and at the Music Academy in Katowice, where he currently teaches passing in 2014 his Ph.D.
Orchestra Arte dei Suonatori is the internationally recognized Polish Orchestra specializing in performing baroque music. Its vast repertoire consists of over 600 compositions reaching from early baroque to the beginning of romanticism. The Orchestra was awarded Gramophone Award – the best Baroque recording in 2003 for Violin Concerti “La Stravaganza”, Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Luister 10, 10 de Repertoire, Classics Today, Classic CD, Tokkata-Alte Musik aktuell: “CD of the Month” , Month’s BBC Music Magazin choice, Classic FM Magazin, Prelude Classical Music Awards 2009 – the best orchestral CD for 12 Concerti grossi op. 6., BBC Music Magazin Editor’s choice, Telerama ffff.
Venue: St. John’s Culture Center
Beginning : 19:00
Tickets: 10 pln
