© Protected - Selected Classical Music in Poland and the Europe of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

  'Begin with Bach' The Bach House in Eisenach [Bach's birthplace] Thuringia, Germany A quite extraordinary J.S.Bach portrait as generated  by computer (not AI) from his skull, contemporary paintings and descriptions The Bach House in Eisenach [Bach's birthplace] Thuringia, Germany We begin and end this year's 'Chopin and his Europe' Festival with Bach.The brilliant composer, who occupies a very important place in the Chopin universe, will also be present in an important, sometimes in an unobtrusive way, on each day of the festival events. The programme of this year's Festival is created with the intention of presenting Chopin's works in a multifaceted context of music from Bach to Lutosławski. The 29 concerts will be filled with Polish and European music in the interpretations of traditionally two stylistic trends: contemporary and historically informed. An important aspect will therefore be historically informed performance, represented in 2025 by ...