2nd Lutheran Festival of Chamber and Organ Music Music on the Royal Route

Sunday, July 8, 2018, 6:00 PM

  • Sunday, July 8, 2018, 6:00 PM
  • Sunday, July 15, 2018, 6:00 PM
  • Sunday, July 22, 2018, 6:00 PM
  • Sunday, July 29, 2018, 6:00 PM
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Some Polish notes, Emanations festival as a guest and plenty of Baroque sounds: on four Sundays in July, we will hear concerts held as part of the 2nd Lutheran Festival of Chamber and Organ Music Music on the Royal Route. The Church of St Martin near Wawel Hill resounds with compositions by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, as well as Górecki and Paderewski.

8 July 2018, 6pm
Arkadiusz Bialic – organ
in programme: works by J.S. Bach

15 July 2018, 6pm
Alla polacca
Żeleński String Quartet:
Jadwiga Bialic – I violin
Katarzyna Jawor – II violin
Anna Migdał-Chojecka – viola
Alicja Holewa – cello

in programme: H.M. Górecki, I.J. Paderewski, W. Żeleński

22 July 2018, 6pm
Łukasz Długosz – flute
Agata Kielar-Długosz – flute
Marek Toporowski – harpsichord

in programme: G.P. Telemann, J.S. Bach, A. Vivaldi

Concert in the frames of the 6th Emanations International Music Festival

29 July 2018, 6pm
Piotr Windak – tenor
Dymitr Olszewski – Baroque violin
Aleksandra Buczyńska – viola da gamba
NengYi Chen – harpsichord

in programme: J.S. Bach, D. Buxtehude, G.P. Telemann

Other: free admission

St Martin's Church

ul. Grodzka 58

With its plain facade and austere, unornamented interior, this particular church inclines one to sink into reflection and prayer.

A baroque church was built in the 17th century for the Order of Discalced Carmelite Sisters and replaced an earlier, Romanesque one. Its diminutive size is rumoured to have been the result of a protest of the neighbouring Order of Poor Clares (operated by St Andrew’s) afraid that a greater structure would cast too much shadow over their estate.

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the church has remained in the hands of the Kraków Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession. The furnishing of the church, as required in Protestantism, is more than modest. The altar is graced by a painting of Christ Silencing a Storm by Henryk Siemiradzki, a leading representative of Polish academism. The Gothic crucifix (from 1380, one of the oldest depictions of crucified Christ in Kraków) hangs high above the altar. Transferred from the previous church, it is recognised as a miraculous object, and a legend endures of Christ speaking to one of the Carmelite Sisters. Leading to the church is a portal with a Latin inscription reading Frustra vivit, qui nemini prodest (In vain lives he who helps no one).

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