„Music Gardens 2010 — Chopin's Gardens ”
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This year's edition of the "Music Gardens" Festival will be partly dedicated to life and work of Fryderyk Chopin due to the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.
During the "Music Gardens" Festival 2010 Chopin will be present at concerts and in films. The organizers will show documentaries on his life ("Chopin's Heart" by Piotr Szalsza or the new ARTE production, "L'art de Chopin") and recitals performed by world-famous pianists such as Artur Rubinstein or Krystian Zimerman. On Mondays during a special cycle called "The Piano @ 200" the Festival will feature pianists from Japan (Aki Takahashi), Spain (Alberto Rosado), USA / France (Jay Gottlieb) and the Netherlands (Ralph van Raat). These splendid artists will be performing contemporary and 20th century piano music. On Sundays at "Chopin Afternoons" the festival will be introducing participants at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. The festival will also offer four special events − "Sunspots. El Derwid", songs by Witold Lutosławski performed by Agata Zubel, Cezary Duchnowski and Andrzej Bauer, Joanna MacGregor's piano recital, Camerata Silesia's concert, directed by Anna Szostak, during which the ensemble will perform vocal arrangements of Chopin's works as well as new pieces by Zygmunt Krauze and Régis Campo, inspired by Fryderyk Chopin. On the final day the audience will listen to a piano recital performed by a young Russian pianist, Sergey Kasprov, which will include works by Domenico Scarlatti, Alexander Scriabin and Fryderyk Chopin.
The festival's programme will also include films on Belgian music and culture due to the Belgian presidency in the EU which begins on July 1st. The inauguration concert will be dedicated to the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium during which the audience will listen to works by César Franck, Grażyna Bacewicz and Michał Spisak. The Polish Orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus will be conducted by Robert Groslot and Joanna Kurkowicz will be the soloist in Grażyna Bacewicz's Violin Concerto no. 7.
All festival events will be taking place form July 1st to 31st at the courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
