Music for Holy Week and Easter
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
22.03.2016 13:45
The performance of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Seven Last Words of our Saviour from the Cross” by Jordi Savall and his Le Concert des Nations has inaugurated Misteria Paschalia, an annual festival of music for Holy Week and Easter held in the historic city of Kraków.
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The opening of the event coincided with the European Day of Early Music organized by the European Network for Early Music under the patronage of the European Commission and UNESCO.
The highlights of the festival include three other oratorios: Michele Falco’s “Oratorio di Sant’ Antonio”, Alessandro Scarlatti’s “Cain overo il primo omicido”, and Handel’s “Belshazzar”, as well as Mozart’s Requiem.
The festival has brought together such prominent musicians as Marc Minkowski with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Rinaldo Alessandrini with Concerto Italiano and Ottavio Dantone with Accademia Bizantina.
Most of the concerts are held in Kraków’s historic churches. One of the event’s attractions is a concert in St Kinga’s Chapel of the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków.
Misteria Paschalia, now in its 13th year, is one of Europe’s major festivals focusing on Renaissance and Baroque music. It lasts until Easter Sunday. (mk/rg)