21 juli, 13-14u - Monika Kaźmierczak
I The Masters and their (Gdańsk) students
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Selection from “Goldberg Variations” BWV 988 (arr. G. Bodden)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)
Two Polonaises (from “24 Polonaises in All Keys”, arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a talented virtuoso harpsichordist born in Gdańsk, first performer of Goldberg Variations – dedicated to him by his teacher Johann Sebastian Bach himself. Bach had more connections to Gdansk than his students – once he showed interest in becoming one of city’s musicians. Unfortunately, the city wasn’t interested!
Friedrich Christian Mohrheim (1719-1780)
Trio g (arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
Another Gdańsk student of Bach in Leipzig, Kapellmeister of StMary’s church in Gdańsk where he was buried.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 23 (parts) SwWV 310 (arr. B. Winsemius)
Paul Siefert (1586-1666)
Fantasia a 3 (arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
A student of Sweelinck in Amsterdam, Siefert was known for his violent character and innovative way of playing. After many turbulences he finally became main organist in StMary’s church in Gdańsk.
Poles and Neighbours
Aleksander Tansman (1897-1986)
Suite in modo polonico (excertps): Entrée, Kujawiak, Alla pollacca (arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
Polish composer and pianist who emigrated to Paris from Łódź. After several succesful US concert tours he has spent WW2 in Los Angeles. Tansman is known to be one of most performed Polish composers.
Loreta Narvilaite (*1965)
Varpas prabyla i tylą (Bell Speaks Into Silence, 2020)
Loreta is a composer from Klaipeda, Lithuania, a director of wonderful Klaipeda Carillon Festival for years. The piece was written during pandemium as a comforting piece
Giedrius Kuprevičius (*1944)
Preludium in memoriam M. K. Čiurlionis (1975)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer who died young in 1911. Giedrius Kuprevičius is a famous Lithuanian composer, former carillonist of Kaunas carillon. And, well, with Lithuania we used to be one country for quite a long time.
Krzysztof Falkowski (*1996)
Little variation for carillon (2019)
Little variation is a first carillon piece, written by a young composer, at that time a student of Academy of Music in Gdańsk. Krzysztof was inspired by a characteristic sound of carillon and decided to refer to historical functions of bells, such as announcing important events like Holy mass or assemblings. The piece was formed as a set of variations with a theme starting with a “call” based on rhythmical strikes of two bells, transforming into melody which appears in the piece.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Selection from “Goldberg Variations” BWV 988 (arr. G. Bodden)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)
Two Polonaises (from “24 Polonaises in All Keys”, arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a talented virtuoso harpsichordist born in Gdańsk, first performer of Goldberg Variations – dedicated to him by his teacher Johann Sebastian Bach himself. Bach had more connections to Gdansk than his students – once he showed interest in becoming one of city’s musicians. Unfortunately, the city wasn’t interested!
Friedrich Christian Mohrheim (1719-1780)
Trio g (arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
Another Gdańsk student of Bach in Leipzig, Kapellmeister of StMary’s church in Gdańsk where he was buried.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 23 (parts) SwWV 310 (arr. B. Winsemius)
Paul Siefert (1586-1666)
Fantasia a 3 (arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
A student of Sweelinck in Amsterdam, Siefert was known for his violent character and innovative way of playing. After many turbulences he finally became main organist in StMary’s church in Gdańsk.
Poles and Neighbours
Aleksander Tansman (1897-1986)
Suite in modo polonico (excertps): Entrée, Kujawiak, Alla pollacca (arr. M. Kaźmierczak)
Polish composer and pianist who emigrated to Paris from Łódź. After several succesful US concert tours he has spent WW2 in Los Angeles. Tansman is known to be one of most performed Polish composers.
Loreta Narvilaite (*1965)
Varpas prabyla i tylą (Bell Speaks Into Silence, 2020)
Loreta is a composer from Klaipeda, Lithuania, a director of wonderful Klaipeda Carillon Festival for years. The piece was written during pandemium as a comforting piece
Giedrius Kuprevičius (*1944)
Preludium in memoriam M. K. Čiurlionis (1975)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer who died young in 1911. Giedrius Kuprevičius is a famous Lithuanian composer, former carillonist of Kaunas carillon. And, well, with Lithuania we used to be one country for quite a long time.
Krzysztof Falkowski (*1996)
Little variation for carillon (2019)
Little variation is a first carillon piece, written by a young composer, at that time a student of Academy of Music in Gdańsk. Krzysztof was inspired by a characteristic sound of carillon and decided to refer to historical functions of bells, such as announcing important events like Holy mass or assemblings. The piece was formed as a set of variations with a theme starting with a “call” based on rhythmical strikes of two bells, transforming into melody which appears in the piece.
