The Voices Of The Mountains

Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk
Concept, script: Waldemar Dąbrowski, Janusz Olejniczak, Jolanta Trykacz
Music director: Janusz Olejniczak
Arrangements: Jan Smoczyński
Executive producer and project coordination: 2T Vision Promotion sp. z o.o.

A great triumph of Polish highland music – the concert has toured the world stages in more ways than an echo for years, evoking genuine admiration, but it always returns to Warsaw. Music by three distinguished Polish composers: Karol Szymanowski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Wojciech Kilar, was combined into a highland-themed musical stage event. Szymanowski highly appreciated the voices of Podhale, chiefly for their 'primal savagery, painstaking forging of shapes that never hopelessly drown in a bloodless sea of ​​sentimentality, and finally – their inherent imaginative malleability'. Górecki’s fascination with folklore goes further, ‘flowing from the highlands over to the sea’, as evidenced by his song collection My Vistula, Gray Vistula. Kilar, on the other hand, has composed Orava –  the greatest of symphonic hits inspired by the ‘Krzesany’ highland dance theme. The artists performing in the show come from different worlds. Sebastian Karpiel-Bułecka, who has flirted with pop music, is joined by Janusz Olejniczak, Atom String Quartet and the NeoQuartet. It will without a doubt be an eventful evening. Please leave your highland shepherd’s axes (or ‘ciupagas’, as we refer to them in Polish) in the cloakroom.

1. Traditional Highland Melodies 
Sebastian Karpiel Bułecka Quartet 

2. Piano Concerto 
music: Wojciech Kilar
Janusz Olejniczak
Jan Smoczyński
Sebastian Karpiel Bułecka Quartet 
Atom String Quartet
NEO String Quartet
Michał Barański
Jan Młynarski

3. Lulaj [Sleep]
music: Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak
Sebastian Karpiel Bułecka

4. Piano Concerto Op. 40
music: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Janusz Olejniczak
Atom String Quartet
NEO String Quartet

5. Traditional Highland Melodies 
Sebastian Karpiel Bułecka Quartet

6. Mazurka Op. 50 No. 1
music: Karol Szymanowski
Janusz Olejniczak
Bartłomiej Staniak
Jan Smoczyński
Michał Barański
Jan Młynarski

8. Zakopane
music: Mateusz Smoczyński
Atom String Quartet

9. Orawa
music: Wojciech Kilar
Janusz Olejniczak
Sebastian Karpiel Bułecka Quartet
Atom String Quartet
NEO String Quartet
Jan Smoczyński
Michał Barański
Jan Młynarski

On 17 December 2024 the Opera Gallery opens an exhibition exploring the Tatra landscape over 150 years, Giewont: An Extraordinary Collection. Do not miss!