Programme 2004 |
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Sunday |
Solemn Liturgy for the Feast of St. Mary's Ascension SCHOLA OF DOMINICAN FRIARS (Cracow) Common performance of Dominican Friars and singers of ensemble Bornus Consort specialising in the repertory of liturgical monody. Last year two groups recorded together a CD with this programme. The pieces performed conform exactly with solemn circumstances of this day and are drawn from the oldest Roman Dominican manuscript dated from 1254 known as Antiphonary Prototype. Rhythmic interpretation is based on a Parisian treatise De Musica by Hieronimus de Moravia dated 1270. Solemn chant of cantors, presbyter, deacon, subdeacons (all lectures are sung with traditional formulas) apt for the solemn degree of the saint patron's feast, calls for using a number of special liturgical actions (e.g. processions) which, despite their being suggested by liturgical rules, are practiced very rarely nowadays. |
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Monday |
Missa Italica super contrafactum CANTILENA ANTIQUA (Italy) Mass cycle based on "parodies" of 14th and 15th c. Secular music. Hearing about Ars Nova we usually think of ballatas and love madrigals, besides which there exists also a little-known and less-explored repertory of religious pieces. In high Middle Ages the term messa is sometimes taken as a pretext for composing music non necessarily having the liturgical function. Despite the fast that these compositions are based on the original texts of ordinarium their roots are of the profane nature, being contrafacta of contemporarily known ballatas. |
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Tuesday |
Conversations with the Miraculous Statue MARTA SEBESTYEN (Hungary) The First Lady of Hungarian traditional music, known to wide audience from a moving song opening the movie English Patient. This time in Jaroslaw she will perform a special recital a capella. This will be not only Hungarian religious songs but also lyrics about love, longing, beauty, suffering; all what Marta Sebestyen would like to tell to the Miraculous Statue of Virgin Mary of Sorrows placed in the altar of Jaroslaw Basilica. |
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Wednesday |
Akathist GREEK BYZANTINE CHOIR, Lycourgos Angelopoulos (Greece) Based deeply in the Orthodox tradition, the great solemn hymn devoted to Virgin Mary - Theotokos - an ancient liturgical prayer of supplication and magnification of the Mother of God. Akathist was most probably composed in the imperial city of Constantinople, "the city of the Virgin," by St. Romanos the Melodist, who died in the year 556. So far it has never been performed in Poland in such a form. Sung in the Eastern Church on Fridays of the Great Lent, performed also in periods of the Marian feasts (in Greece the feast of the Virgin's Dormition is celebrated on August 15). In Jaroslaw Akathist will be led by Father Thomas from the St. Irene Cathedral of Athens. We all remember the appearance of Father Spiridon from the Holy Mount Athos two years ago - this performance was recorded and published on CD by Jaroslaw Festival and DUX recording company. The visit of the Greek Byzantine Choir is made possible thanks to the long run programme of collaboration with the Greek Embassy in Warsaw and the Greek Ministry of Culture. |
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Thursday |
Cantantibus Organis MUSICALISCHE COMPAGNEY (Germany) Motets, canzonas and sonatas (Orlando di Lasso, Philippe de Monte, Giovanni Gabreli). Holger Eichhorn - virtual legend of early music, virtuoso of cornetto and of pioneers of historical performance practice, non-compromised in his quest for authentic sound of instruments and voices as well as rhetoric meanings of the 17th c. music. Along with his emsemble he will perform a programme presenting pieces by Italian masters of seicento. Concert will be broadcast within the EBU net. |
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Friday |
Lyra d'Esperia JORDI SAVALL (Spain) After years of preparations we begin 2 years-long programme of collaboration between Jarosalw Festival and one of the world most outstanding early music figures. Catalonian master of viola da gamba together with his wife, singer Monserat Figueras, joined by two adult children and well-known percussionist Pedro Estevan will give a "family concert" this year. In the year to come maestro will lead a bigger Vesper-form with a wide participation of Polish artists. This year pieces by Ortiz, Duron, Marin, Hidalgo, Hume, Merula, Murcia. Jordi Savall has been a leading figure of early music since long, yet after the immense success of the movie Toutes les matins du monde 12 years ago with music prepared and performed by Jordi Savall, his popularity reached a level of popularity equalled to the pop-music, which happens extremely rarely. This concert will be broadcast in Europe within the net of EBU. Directly after this concert the local traditional singers from the region of Jaroslaw will continue sung meditations upon the Rosary Mysteries in a form of Night Vigil, held during the Festival on Friday night as usual. Year-long exploration and educational activities of the Association Early Music in Jaroslaw revealed centres of traditional refined monodic chant preserved in its whole strength. It is the traditional culture of the region which we consider a special value and which we wish to present to best European musicians specializing in reconstructing traditions of the past. |
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Saturday |
Mystery Sonatas - F. Biber BATTALIA (Finland) Cycle of 15 sonatas of the baroque master crowned with the famous passacaglia constitute a mediation upon the Rosary Mysteries. Performing this cycle demands the ultimate violinistic skills and a mastery form construction - that is why it is so rarely performed as a whole. Finnish masters prepared this program specially for our Festival. The ensemble is led by Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen - concertmaster of one of the Europe most famous baroque orchestras, Collegium Vocale of Gent. Concert will be broadcast in Europe within the net of EBU. |
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Sunday |
Dominican Sunday liturgy led by Archbishop of Przemysl Jozef Michalik JUVENTUS (Poland) led by Robert Pozarski Juventus is a long run educational project participated by young ensembles of early music connected with the Kalisz movement Schola Cantorum. This year under the leadership of outstanding Gregorian chant specialist, Robert Pozarski, a few dozens of musicians will prepare the Sunday liturgy according to 13th c. Dominican manuscripts and rhythmic rules of Hieronimus de Moravia. Such final event is fulfilling one of the Festival's missions being a creation of possibilities for wide participation in unique events of the highest artistic level. This line of activities has been initiated in 1999 with a project called Septuaginta led by Marcel Peres, continued in 2002 by Micrologus teaching and performing together with ca. 80 young Polish and European musicians (a CD documenting this event is about to be published), followed in 2003 by Carissimi's oratorio Jephte prepared by Czech choir conductor Robert Hugo. Media Patronage: Polish Radio Channel 2 Warsaw, TVP3, Portal Internetowy ONET, Radio Rzeszow, Rzeszowskie Nowiny |
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Festival "Song of Our Roots" is not only evening concerts. Before all it is an intensive day filled with workshops, meetings, debates. Every noon there takes place a seminar devoted to the concert of the night before. Since the morning Matins to evening Vespers the liturgies are celebrated by the Dominican Friars. Nights belong to meetings in Festival Club, where songs and dances would be continued till dawns if not the Matins to be sung early in the morning… |
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