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The Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival was called into being in Kraków 13 years ago on the initiative of Elżbieta Penderecka and has never really left our city. Despite the fact that since 2004 it has been taking place in Warsaw, it has not forgotten its roots.

Anyway, it is only in Kraków that the exhibition of music manuscripts from the collection of the former Prussian Library that traditionally announces the festival’s arrival can be organised – for these have after all been preserved since the end of the Second World War in the Jagiellonian Library. Yet the Cracovian part of one of the most important Polish music events is not limited to the exhibition, there’s more: it gathering greater momentum. This was already evident last year when it was actually here that the great Anne-Sophie Mutter gave her first festival concert, appearing accompanied by the Sinfonia Varsovia under the baton of Krzysztof Penderecki. This was the same programme that three days later officially inaugurated the festival at Warsaw’s National Philharmonic!

The Ludwig van Beethoven Association has also this year prepared an extraordinarily attractive programme, which additionally underscores the motto of this year’s festival: “Beethoven, the Music and the Phenomenon of the Piano. The Year of Chopin and Schumann”. And indeed in Kraków the piano is king: at the exhibition it will be possible to see, among other exhibits, Chopin manuscripts from the collections of the Jagiellonian Library, and its opening on 18 March will be accompanied by the sound of Chopin pieces performed by the unusually talented Julia Vaniushina. But this is only – nomen est omen – a “prelude”: in the evening at the Philharmonic Hall we can hear all of Chopin’s etudes performed by an outstanding interpreter – Canadian pianist Louis Lortie. On Sunday 21 March the works of Chopin and Schumann accompanied by a string quartet will be played by Janusz Olejniczak himself, and also featuring among the works to be performed is Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, arranged for what is to all intents and purposes a chamber ensemble. The concert on 25 March will also be a real treat. Kraków audiences are already well acquainted with the marvellous Portuguese singer Mísia, who makes no attempt to hide her Polish sympathies (she even has our homeland to thank for her nickname) and whose recitals are always warmly received in this country. On this occasion the programme which she’ll be performing promises to be sensational: Our Chopin Affair, inspired by the music of the brilliant object of the anniversary celebrations has a chance of becoming the standout event of the whole festival – in Warsaw it’ll be performed three days later in the Congress Hall.

It is worth noting that there are in fact two festivals which will be attracting crowds of music lovers from all over Europe in the run up to Easter – the Easter Festival and Kraków’s Misteria Paschalia – they jointly represented our country during the January music fair in Cannes. The Kraków public have this one great advantage over the rest of the world, that they can – without leaving the city! – take part in both…

(Grzegorz Słącz, „Karnet” monthly)