Performers:
Adam Tański – organ
Magdalena Kulig – mezzo-soprano
Hornet Quartet:
- Gabriel Czopka,
- Michał Szczerba,
- Łukasz Łacny,
- Piotr Kowalski.
In the program:
(1685–1750)
- Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645
- Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV 646
- Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 649
- Kommst du nun Jesu vom Himmel herunter BWV 650
(1873–1945)
- Nocturne
- Hunting
- Folk Song
- Choral
(1986)
(1988)
- Salve Regina
- Assumpta es Maria in Caelum
- Regina Caeli Laetare
(1860–1911)
ed. Thomas Cornelius
- Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
- Um Mitternacht
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Quartet
Biographical notes:
Adam Tański is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory, he also graduated with distinction from the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warszawa. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the "Etnosakralia kurpiowskie" festival, combining organ, traditional and improvised music, and a laureate of international organ competitions in Katowice and Poznań. In 2015-2017 he taught at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź. In 2019 he defended his doctorate at the UMFC. In 2018, his first publication was published, containing five pieces for keyboard instruments. In 2019 he released his debut album of organ improvisations Polichromia.
Magdalena Kulig graduated in vocal studies from the K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław (E. Czermak singing class) and history from the University of Wrocław. She is a laureate of many international vocal competitions (Estonia, Poland, Italy), and a scholarship holder of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Board in the field of artistic creativity, the German Richard-Strauss-Institut and the British foundation Dartington International School. Her repertoire includes many opera, operetta and oratorio-cantata parts. She received the Wrocław Music Award in 2012 for the album Elegie. He serves as the director of the Lower Silesian Music Festival.
Hornet Quartet was founded in 2012. The band members are soloists of leading symphony orchestras in Poland. The repertoire includes mainly contemporary classical, popular and film music. In 2015, the quartet won the Silver Medal at the international music competition for soloists and chamber musicians SVIREL in Slovenia. In 2017, the band received the 1st prize at the horn quartet competition during the International Horn Symposium in Natal (Brazil). The quartet has performed at chamber music festivals in Poland and abroad, and collaborates with the composer and long-time horn player of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra K. Machala, as well as with P. Pudła and J. Stokłosa, who dedicated three compositions to the band.