Festiwal moniuszkowski Kudowa-Zdrój
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00:00 The 60th anniversary of the festival is a bit more modest and difficult for the organizers.
00:12 Nevertheless, I think it will be a great attraction for the music lovers of Stanisław Moniuszko and the guests of Kudowy Zdrój.
00:23 Undoubtedly, the biggest attraction of the first day will be the performance of the well-known Silesian Song and Dance team,
00:31 which will perform in a moment in the theatre "Pod Blachą" in Kudowy Zdrój,
00:36 with a repertoire specially prepared for this year's edition of the Moniuszko Festival.
00:42 I would like to mention that the Silesian team is also celebrating its 70th anniversary of its professional work this year,
00:50 so this performance will be also special. I cordially invite you.
00:55 Mr. Director, this is the 61st edition of the International Moniuszko Festival. What repertoire will be in the coming days?
01:11 In the coming days we will hear completely unheard things,
01:15 so we went a bit into the renewal of the repertoire. Kasia Mosi will be with songs of Moniuszko,
01:22 but in a fusion style, that is, a combination of different styles, different genres,
01:28 from some Hindu zadum to some unheard energy, one might say.
01:36 The orchestra "Aukso" and its instrumentalists will play with her.
01:40 There will also be a second concert, which will have something like this in the experiment.
01:46 Well, the French-Polish duet "Marimba", i.e. percussion instruments,
01:51 has also reinterpreted and re-instrumented Moniuszko's songs,
01:57 in two solo voices, great anyway, Jadwiga Postrożna and Marcin Bronikowski,
02:03 plus two marimbas, and, ladies and gentlemen, it will be complete madness.
02:06 Of course, they will also play their own compositions, Mr. Kole, who is the author of these works.
02:13 In addition, ladies and gentlemen, we will have a concert in which we will compare
02:17 how Johannes Brahms wrote the songs and how Stanisław Moniuszko wrote them.
02:21 A great singer from Vienna will perform, Christina Bahader,
02:26 with a rare type of voice, a dramatic mezzo-soprano, together with a great pianist Marcin Kozioł.
02:31 Ladies and gentlemen, these are completely incredible and fantastic things.
02:35 I think that the first time in the history of the Moniuszko Festival will be an extraordinary concert
02:42 of the Fisharmonie, the forgotten instrument, the beloved and beloved instrument of Stanisław Moniuszko,
02:48 on which we will hear both instrumental pieces and a concert for soprano and Fisharmonie.
02:56 Ladies and gentlemen, there will be beautiful events, and also films, ladies and gentlemen,
02:59 reporters, intellectual meetings that today attracted crowds to my retreat,
03:06 crowds in the drinking room, there were crowds of Polish intellect,
03:11 Mr. Gmys, a professor, Mr. Rozlach, a great music journalist,
03:15 and Mr. Grzegorz Chojnowski, who is the head of the Radio Kultura in Wrocław.
03:21 We will also see a beautiful choir at the almost end of the Moniuszko Festival
03:27 and I think that there are areas that even the director himself does not know about.
03:32 Well, in that case, is the music and the Moniuszko Festival just Moniuszko's music?
03:37 No, it's not just the Moniuszko Festival, it has never been like that under my direction.
03:43 I have always been looking for it. There was a time when it was Stanisław Moniuszko and his contemporaries.
03:49 Today I am also looking for the expression of Moniuszko in the 21st century,
03:55 how to interpret, how to show, how to attract the public to it,
04:00 how to encourage artists to create something new.
04:04 And such parallels as Brahms with Moniuszko, for example,
04:08 or, ladies and gentlemen, the recall of an old instrument that no one has ever seen at the festival.
04:14 Phisharmony.
04:15 We are talking about phisharmony at the moment.
04:17 Mr. Michał Kopyciński has a concert phisharmony from 1903,
04:24 i.e. from the beginning of the 20th century, by the French company Moustel.
04:28 And in the Church of St. Catherine we will hear, ladies and gentlemen, fantastic things,
04:33 among others, those that are rarely played on phisharmony.
04:39 And not only Moniuszko, but also Siegfried Karg-Ellert,
04:43 which probably no one has ever heard of, but I have heard.
04:47 Well, young people often say that something is spinning them.
04:50 What can spin in Stanisław Moniuszko?
04:53 In Stanisław Moniuszko, it can spin above all that, because we are talking about different things.
04:59 Great performance.
05:01 Moniuszko was a great melodist, he had a great sense of the singer's phrase,
05:07 he wrote great things that took their roots not only from Polish culture, but from the First Polish Republic,
05:13 Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine.
05:16 He lived there and brought all these things to himself, not without a coda.
05:22 Ladies and gentlemen, also the fact that in new interpretations, in new arrangements,
05:27 in new, let's say, types of voice and instruments,
05:33 this Moniuszko suddenly sounds completely different.
05:36 But let's just have room for everything.
05:39 Let's have room for an experiment, for such a classic shot of Moniuszko,
05:43 or for things that are enjoyed by some great recognition of the wide audience.
05:48 And young people can be taken, above all, by masterful performances of this Stanisław Moniuszko.
05:54 I think that this year there are no lack of these masterful performances.
05:58 [Music]
06:00 It is a very valuable initiative.
06:11 The International Moniuszko Festival is the second oldest music festival in Poland.
06:15 It so happens that for the eighth time I am hosting this great event as a patron.
06:19 I am honored that today I can patronize such a great event as the Moniuszko Festival
06:25 and that today again in Kudów the beautiful music of Stanisław Moniuszko will sound.
06:29 [Music]
06:31 We have the 61st International Moniuszko Festival.
06:39 This is a really good event that promotes the whole region.
06:43 Spectacular event. Last year, it was the anniversary.
06:46 Today, the 61st Moniuszko Festival.
06:49 The annual concert is just starting.
06:52 The performance of Moniuszko's works in the arrangement of the Silesian band.
06:58 So really an amazing play.
07:01 I invite everyone to Kudów.
07:03 This is really a great event.
07:05 Excellent promotion of Polishness and culture.
07:08 Of course, yes.
07:10 Promotion, above all, in the local Kudów, the city of Kłodzki, the whole Lower Silesia,
07:15 because this is an event to the extent of the promotion of Lower Silesia.
07:18 I cordially invite everyone, not only residents of the Polish poviat,
07:21 but residents of all Poland and also guests from abroad.
07:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]