This years Festival will begin on 9 October on the 250th anniversary of Jan Klemens Branicki’s death. During the concert at the Aula Magna of the Branicki Palace in Białystok, Johann Adolf Hasse's Requiem in C will be performed. Like all festival events, it will be broadcast online, and, additionally, it will be broadcast live on a large screen in the city centre next to the Town Hall. The Choir of the Medical University and the Orchestra of the Diletto Early Music Ensemble will perform under the direction of Anna Moniuszko and soloists. During this year's festival, there will also be references to the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and the Mutual Engagement of Both Nations on 20 October 1791, which strengthened federal relations between Lithuania and Poland. Performed by the Morgaine Ensemble (Lithuania) in cooperation with the Jericho Ensemble (Poland) and GS Ansamblis (Lithuania), we will hear (on 23 October) the "Oratio Dominica - Cyprian Bazylik and the Roots of Evangelical Hymnody" concert, performed by the Starosielskie Bractwo Śpiewacze and Witold Broda – the concert on the occasion of the jubilee of the 230th anniversary of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 - Pious Songs by Fr. Karpiński (12 November). The festival also includes chamber concerts for the invited foreign guests. On 2 November, the duo of Luise Baumgartl’s - oboe and oboe d'amore and Martin Stadler - oboe, flute, harpsichord will perform at the Branicki Palace.
All events are available online.
You are welcome to come.