Chamber artists NOSPR/Bialic/À la parisienne

Many Parisian temples are places of worship not only religious, but also artistic. For decades, virtuoso composers climbed onto the galleries there, who, on the wave of the revolution in organ building, also revolutionized music, changed its language and style, boldly reached for new technical and color achievements of instruments. The names of these reformers — Vierne and Dupré (37 years of work in Notre-Dame and Saint-Sulpice respectively), Widor and Gigout (after more than 60 in Saint-Sulpice and Saint-Augustin) — are well known from solo recitals. They appear much less frequently at chamber concerts, although chamber music — often intertwined with organs — was enjoyed by all of them. And so Widor's salon Serenade allows you to experience his sense of humor. Gigout's piece brings organ and band dialogue to a raised topic, while Vierne's Triumphal March on the centenary of Napoleon's death speaks in one monumental voice. Duprégo's sonata engages with a multifaceted narrative, and his elevated Heroic Poem, dedicated to the fallen in the Great War — a brilliant tale of heroism. Barkarol Gounod shows the best singing of his music, and in this essay he also recalls that this opera master of his time also experienced work behind the counter — in the Missions Etrangers church in Paris.

Piotr Mika (“The Musical Movement”)

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Performers: Chamber musicians of NOSPR; Arkadiusz Bialic — organ; Jan Mazur — violin; Natalia Kurzac-Kotula — cello; Jan Chłap — flute; Piotr Nowak — trumpet; Piotr Pyda — trumpet; Wojciech Kaszuba — trumpet; Tomasz Hajda — trombone; Karol Gajda — trombone; Wojciech Giłka — trombone; Michał Żymełka — drums; Piotr Kopiński — piano

Program: Eugène Gigout — Great Dialogue Choir; Charles Gounod — Where do you want to go? Barcarolle CG 419; Charles-Marie Widor — Sérénade op. 10; Louis Vierne — Marche triumphale pour le centenaire de Napoléon 1er op. 46; Marcel Dupré — Sonata op. 60; Gabriela Fauré — Cantique de Jean Racine, op. 11 (arrangement for violin, cello and organ: Arkadiusz Bialic); Ducel Dupré — Heroic poem op. 33