CANDLELIGHT CONCERT - LA BELLE NUIT | JAGODA SOKOŁOWSKA O'DONOVAN | JARYNA RAK | EWA PELWECKA

Program of the concert

The program includes works from Baroque to Late Romanticism — duets about love, separation, Spanish songs by Manuel de Falli based on popular folk songs

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809—1847)

● Ich wollt', meine Lieb' ergösse sich, op. 63 nr 1
● Abschiedslied der Zugvögel, Op. 63 No. 2
● Gruß, op. 63 no. 3
● Autumn song, op. 63 no. 4
● Anthem, Op. 63 No. 5
● Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein, op. 63 no. 6

Robert Schumann (1810—1856)

● Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 No. 10 (“Balladenmäßig”)

Johannes Brahms (1833—1897)

● The Schwestern, op. 61 no. 1
● Klosterfräulein, Op. 61 No. 2
● Phänomen, op. 61 no. 3
● The Boten der Liebe, op. 61 no. 4
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Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819—1872)

● Duet “Already the fire is burning” from the opera Terrible Manor

Franz Schubert (1797—1828)

● Ständchen (“Serenade”)

Camille Saint-Saens (1835—1921)

● Bolero “El Desdichado”

Friedrich Chopin (1810—1849)

● Nocturne in C minor op. posth.

Gabriel Fauré (1845—1924)

● For here below is every soul

Leo Delibes (1836—1891)

● The Three Birds

Jacques Offenbach (1819—1880)

● Barcarola “Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour”

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Please note that the concert repertoire is subject to change

La Belle Nuit is a beautiful night in which music speaks of love.

It is a series of candlelit concerts dedicated to the art of classical singing — from baroque elevations to contemporary stories. The program of the evening includes the most beautiful arias and songs, often inspired by the theme of love, performed by outstanding artists in an atmosphere of intimacy and candlelight.

In the Fryderyk Concert Hall in Warsaw, as in 19th century music salons in Poland and Europe, we meet to celebrate the voice — the most perfect of instruments. In the break — a glass of sparkling wine, as in the old days, when music united people in elegance, emotion and silence.

La Belle Nuit is not just a concert. It is a meeting with beauty that stays with you for a long time.

Please arrive 15 minutes before the concert.

Jagoda Sokołowska‑O'Donovan — mezzo-soprano, flutist, cultural manager, architect of the Fryderyk Concert Hall

Versatile artist and organizer of musical life. She graduated with honors from the Academy of Music in Krakow. Winner of national and international competitions, she has toured in Europe, Asia and North America. Her artistry was appreciated by Jerzy Waldorff — a prominent Polish music critic, essayist and popularizer of culture — who called her “an exceptionally talented artist... an outstanding musical personality”. Founder and director of the Fryderyk Concert Hall in Warsaw — a unique place inspired by the Chopin era and 19th century music salons, where she combines artistic activity with the vision of a modern patron of culture.

Yaryna Rak - soprano

A graduate of the Lviv Academy of Music named after M. Łysenko in the piano class of Maria Kruszelnicka and in the opera singing class of Volodymyr Ignatenka and Lyudmila Bożko. She also completed an artistic internship in the opera singing class of Izabela Kłosińska at the F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Winner of piano and vocal competitions in Poland and abroad. Scholarship holder of the President of Ukraine and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. For a few years she taught her chamber singing class at the Lviv Academy of Music, a master class in interpretation and vocal technique at the Tromsø University of Music. Currently tutor of soloists of the Teatr Wielki - National Opera in Warsaw. She cooperates with numerous festivals, philharmonies and theatres in Poland and abroad as a tutor of soloists and opera singer.

Ewa Pelwecka - piano

She is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

From 1994 to 2012 she worked as a pianist and harpsichordist at the Warsaw Chamber Opera, performing basso continuo and solo parts, among others in operas by Mozart, Rossini, Cimarosa, Galuppi, Donizetti, Verdi, as well as in works by Kurpinski, Elsner, Karłowicz, Kronenberg and others.

Since 2012 he has been working at the Grand National Opera Theatre as a tutor of soloists.

At the same time, he conducts a wide concert activity in Poland and abroad.

She performs as a soloist as well as a chamber musician, collaborating with eminent musicians, in particular with leading singers of Polish opera scenes.