© AI Training forbidden - Selected Classical Music in the Poland of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

I feel grateful to the National Fyderyk Chopin Institute to able to attend live concerts once again. I also respect greatly the courage shown by these young musicians to perform in public, even in such a large hall as the Filharmonia. Such a bizarre experience to sit masked in the Filharmonia Hall, distant from others without the slightest concession to social interaction or interval discussion over coffee or a glass of claret. But there is music present at last !      Ph oto Wojciech Grzędziński   Szymon Nehring (piano), Ryszard Groblewski (viola) and Marcin Zdunik (cello)  Fryderyk Chopin  The hunting lodge, a  pavillon de chasse  in the romantic classical style, was bulit in 1822-1824 for Prince Antoni Radziwiłł by Karol Frideric Schinkel. The four-storey wooden building was erected on the plan of a Greek Cross. However, it was not actually completed until 1926. Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major for piano and cello ...

The hopefully not irreversible blight that torments us at present was forgotten yesterday as we were immersed in the consoling nature of the music of Fryderyk Chopin. I had attended the birthday concert at this hamlet for many years but this was the first time I have been so cruelly denied by a merciless and indiscriminate pandemic.  In an access of nostalgia brought on by this denial,  I would like to quote my first impressions of this deeply poetic place  in 1992 from my book about Poland entitled  A Country in the Moon. In late spring, in a despondent frame of mind, I decided to raise my spirits with a visit to Chopin’s birthplace at Żelazowa Wola, a hamlet about fifty kilometres from Warsaw. The flat Mazovian landscape was relieved by stands of trembling birch and pine; forlorn willows with gnarled boles lined the deserted roads. I had long anticipated this visit to what musically, for me, was an almost sacred place. I wandered thr...

I found these videos highly entertaining and deeply instructive 'lectures' as to what theatre and drama lies beneath some Haydn piano sonatas - if we perceive and truly penetrate the music! Not just pianistic dots on the page! This is how to generate enthusiasm for classical music in the minds of imaginative young students! It is given by the great Maestro of the historical clarinet Lorenzo Coppola. Cristina Esclapez plays the piano. I attended and reviewed a wonderful concert that Ensemble Dialoghi gave as part of the 2020 Chopin i jego Europa Festival in Warsaw. I also chatted at length with Lorenzo about how imperative it is to go one dimension deeper with this marvelously associative and operatic music of affectation and conversational communicative gesture in the music of the eighteenth century and baroque. Context, context and again context.... These videos are truly a revelation of what is behind the scenes! Video 1. Classical style: Opera with and without words | HAYDN...

Happy Birthday National Fryderyk Chopin Institute ! The National Fryderyk Chopin Institute is dedicated to preserving the legacy of  Chopin and the values ​​ associated with him. The rich and multi-faceted activities of the  NIFC over  two decades includes, among other activities sixteen editions of the "Chopin and his Europe Festival ,  thanks to which Warsaw has been visited by dozens of outstanding artists such as Martha  Argerich, M aria  João Pires,  the late Frans Brüggen, Daniil Trifonov, Alexander Melnikov, Fabio Biondi and countless others of distinguished international reputation. You will find many detailed reviews of these festivals on this blog. http://www.michael-moran.com/2019/08/15th-chopin-and-his-europe-festival.html As part of the publishing house run by the NIFC ( books,  exclusive facsimile publications, e-books, audiobooks, mobile applications and  scientific journals printed and online) ...