FULL PROLOG Kochanowski (Filip Wika) Warsaw 2024 Monodia Polska
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: PROLOG Kochanowski
- Composer: Wika Filip
- Libretto: Jan Kochanowski
- Venue & Opera Company: Witold Lutosławski-Concert Studio Polish Radio, Warsaw, Poland
- Recorded: September 11, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Monodia Polska
- Conductor: Filip Wika
- Orchestra: Monodia Polska
- Chorus: Monodia Polska
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: vk FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language. He has been called the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz and one of the most influential Slavic poets prior to the 19th century
The concert on the occasion of the 440th anniversary of Jan Kochanowski’s death will feature the poet’s songs known from school readings and those that contemporaries do not reach for.
The composer of the whole is Filip Wika, the music producer is Adam Strug. The Monodia Polska band sings and plays.
Filip Wiki’s compositions are lyrical and monumental at the same time, growing out of Renaissance music like a branch. However, this is not so-called early music or neo-Renaissance creations. The songs are written so that everyone can sing them – regardless of the degree of vocal proficiency. The performers’ desire is to introduce this repertoire into the bloodstream of contemporary culture, in the form – as it used to be – of a popular singing movement of Poles.