Ours, so close... and still so very unknown. The Festival of Polish Music has been proving for two decades that Polish music is worth rediscovering: from clarinet concertos by Karol Kurpiński and Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, which are rare in the domestic literature of the 19th century, Portraits of Women – compositions by Grażyna Bacewicz juxtaposed with works by Clara Schumann and Mel Bonis, and Paweł Mykietyn’s 3 for 13 and Henryk Czyż’s Divertimento in B flat major “Meine kleine Haydn Musik” paraphrasing the style of the old masters and complemented by Mozart’s piano concertos, to the evening Around the 'Madrigali dell'estate' by Marek Stachowski. There will also be some "big names" – we will hear Karol Szymanowski's duets for violin and piano or Fryderyk Chopin's Piano Concerto in F minor in a salon setting with a string quartet instead of an orchestra. The line-up will include a number of virtuosos, including clarinettist Krzysztof Grzybowski, pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja and Sylviane Deferne, violinists Janusz Wawrowski and Wojciech Koprowski, soprano Jolanta Kowalska, and a few ensembles: the brilliant Quatuor Sine Nomine, the Messages Ensemble and Sinfonietta Cracovia led by Anu Tali and Marzena Diakun. In addition, Miranda Liu will return to the festival – in the final, the extraordinarily gifted young artist will perform Emil Młynarski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor.

12 July 2025, 8pm
Gallery of the 19-century Polish Art in Sukiennice
INAUGURATION
Stanisław Moniuszko Polonaise from Act 3 of Hrabina
Karol Kurpiński Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
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Tadeusz Szeligowski Epitaph on the Death of Karol Szymanowski
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński/Karol Respondek Clarinet Concerto in A flat major
Krzysztof Grzybowski clarinet
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Anu Tali conductor

13 July 2025, 6pm
Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University
Karol Szymanowski Duets for violin and piano
Prelude, Op. 1 No. 1 (w wersji for violin and piano)
Myths, Op. 30
The Dawn and Wild Dance (K. Szymanowski/P. Kochański)
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Roxana’s Song from the opera King Roger (transc. P. Kochański)
Romance, Op. 23
Sonata in D minor, Op. 9 for violin and piano
Wojciech Koprowski violin
Grzegorz Skrobińskand piano

17 July 2025, 7pm
Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University
Women Portraits
Grażyna Bacewicz Sonata No. 1
Mel Bonis Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 112
Clara Schumann 3 Romances
Grażyna Bacewicz Sonata No. 4
Janusz Wawrowski violin
Anna Fedorova piano

18 July 2025, 7pm
Kraków Philharmonic
Paweł Mykietyn 3 for 13
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major K. 482
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Henryk Czyż Divertimento in B flat major “Meine Kleine Haydn Musik”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K. 491
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Marzena Diakun conductor

19 July 2025, 7pm
Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University
Karol Szymanowski Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 37
Constantin Régamey Quartet No. 1

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Fryderyk Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Sylviane Deferne piano
Quatour Sine Nomine

27 July 2025, 6pm
Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University
Around Marek Stachowski’s ”Madrigali dell’estate”
Jolanta Kowalska soprano
Dominika Grzybacz piano
Kwartet Messages Ensemble:
Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera violin
Oriana Masternak violin
Anna Migdał viola
Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska cello

1 August 2025, 7pm
Kraków Philharmonic
FINALE
Fryderyk Chopin Scherzo in B flat minor, Op. 31 (arr. K. Respondek)
Emil Młynarski Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 11
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski Symphony in B minor “Polonia”, Op. 24
Miranda Liu violin
Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra
František Macek conductor