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Mozart, Beethoven, Dobrzyński:
String Quintets and Sextets

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Thursday 18. 07. 2024 | 17.00 Strahov Monastery
Summer Refectory
Strahovské nádvoří 1/132, Praha 1
17.00–21.00
With intermission

Artists

  
Bartłomiej Fraś, Vida Bobin-Sokołowska – violin
Dominik Dębski, Andreas Torgersen (as a guest) – viola
Bartosz Kokosza – cello
Janusz Musiał – double bass
(period instruments)

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Ouverture (Le nozze di Figaro)
Non più andrai (Le nozze di Figaro)
Period transcription by Kajetán Vogl for string quintet.
 
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Sonata in F major, op. 5, No. 1
Period transcription by Ferdinand Ries for string quintet.
 
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807–1867)
String Sextet in E flat major, op. 39

Annotation

“My Prague people understand me...,” famously boasted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of his Czech audience. Transcriptions and paraphrases from the pens of Czech composers, intended for performance in music salons, also served to popularise the works of this peerless genius and visionary. For example, the arrangement of The Marriage of Figaro for string quintet was very likely performed in the castles of the Clam-Gallas family. And it was from a manuscript from the Count’s library that the Polish cellist Jarosław Thiel chose two pieces for the concert at Strahov Monastery.
 
Under his artistic direction, the soloists of the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra will perform a quintet by another unrivalled great – Ludwig van Beethoven. The highlight of the programme will be a string sextet composed by a representative of Polish musical romanticism, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński. Critics of the time wrote that the composition “is one of the best works of its kind”! The composition, interwoven with national elements, takes full advantage of the sound and technical possibilities of the instruments and its brilliant finale gives all the musicians the opportunity to showcase their virtuosity.

Venue

Strahov Monastery

Summer Refectory
Strahovské nádvoří 1/132, Praha 1

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Partners of the concert

The concert is held with the kind support of the Polish Institute in Prague and the Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov.

Artists

Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa – soloists

Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa – soloists

Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa (WOB) is one of the most important Polish ensembles playing historical instruments. The orchestra is the ensemble in residence of the Narodowe Forum Muzyki (NFM) in Wrocław, presenting its own concert series as part of the NFM artistic season. It also performs in prestigious concert halls and at the most important European early music festivals and it collaborates with the best conductors, soloists and vocal groups on the international early music scene. The ensemble’s achievements are documented by an extensive discography. The cellist Jarosław Thiel serves as the artistic director of WOB. The soloists of WOB are a formation that brings together the orchestra’s concert masters to perform chamber music requiring a smaller instrumental line-up than the orchestral one. The ensemble performs in a variety of line-ups depending on the repertoire presented, and its concert programmes include a number of unjustly forgotten Classical and Romantic works that it brings back to concert life.
Jarosław Thiel

Jarosław Thiel

Baroque cello, artistic director

A cellist and, increasingly, a conductor, his artistic activity focuses on issues relating to historical performance practices. He has collaborated with the most important Polish ensembles specialising in Baroque music and with several German ensembles in this field – Dresdner Barockorchester, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Cantus Cölln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and Gaechinger Cantorey. Since 2006, he has been the artistic director of Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa – an ensemble in residence of the Narodowe Forum Muzyki.   His discography as a cellist includes a number of chamber music recordings, and as a conductor, he has led Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa in projects realised for the CD Accord, Aparte and Accent labels. Jarosław Thiel is a professor of historical cello at the Akademia Muzyczna im. Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego in Poznań. He conducts masterclasses, educational concerts and gives lectures on the historically informed performance of early music.