From: 2008-09-04
to: 2008-09-14

The festival of music and fine arts has been organized since 1966. Apart from its original oratorio-cantata formula, it comprises chamber-music concerts, recitals and presentations of the visual arts. The festival programme includes many great choirs and orchestras, who perform concerts in Wroclaw churches or in the open air.
The programme:
Thursday, 4 Sept.
8.00 p.m., St Mary Magdalene Polish National Catholic Cathedral
Edward ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius
Friday, 5 Sept.
7.00 p.m., St Elisabeth Basilica
PURCELL Ode for St Cecilia BRITTEN Ode for St Cecilia
9.30 p.m., Holy Cross Collegiate Church
BACH cantatas 202 Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten 82 Ich habe genug 49 Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen and Concerto for Oboe and Violin BWV 1060
Saturday, 6 Sept.
9.00 p.m., open-air concert
A Selection From:
HÄNDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks HÄNDEL Water Music
Sunday, 7 Sept.
Lubiąż, 12.00 a.m.
HAYDN symphonies 6-8: Le Matin - Le Midi - Le Soir and traditional Scottish songs
8.00 p.m., St Mary Magdalene Polish National Catholic Cathedral
BACH cantata 104 Du Hirte Israel, höre BACH cantata 194 Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest
BUXTEHUDE cantata Alles, was ihr tut BACH cantata 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Monday, 8 Sept.
7.00 p.m., St Elisabeth Basilica
"Drop drop slow tears"
A lent prose
Richard FARRANT Call To Remembrance
Osbert PARSLEY Lamentations
Robert PARSONS O Bone Jesu
Orlando GIBBONS Drop drop slow tears
James MACMILLAN Seven Last Words From The Cross
9.30 p.m., W. Lutosławski Philharmonic in Wrocław
Paweł MYKIETYN Pasja
Tuesday, 9 Sept.
7.00 p.m., St Elisabeth Basilica
9.30 p.m., Town Hall
recital
Wednesday, 10 Sept.
7.00 p.m., St Elisabeth Basilica
Henry PURCELL Anthems & British Motets
9.30 p.m., Holy Cross Collegiate Church
Tallis & Ludford Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
James MACMILLAN The World's Ransoming
Thursday, 11 Sept.
7.00 p.m., St Elisabeth Basilica
1605 Treason and Dischord: William Byrd and the Gunpowder Plot
9.30 p.m., Holy Cross Collegiate Church
BYRD, FERRABOSCO, FAYRFAX Lamentations for Good Friday
THE CARDINALL'S MUSICK
Friday, 12 Sept.
9.30 p.m., Holy Cross Collegiate Church
BROWNE, WHITE Lamentations for Holy Saturday
James MACMILLAN Symphony Vigil
Saturday, 13 Sept.
7.00 p.m., St Mary Magdalene Polish National Catholic Cathedral
Benjamin BRITTEN War Requiem
9.30 p.m., Town Hall
recital
Sunday, 14 Sept.
7.00 p.m., St Mary Magdalene Polish National Catholic Cathedral
BRITTEN War Requiem
All the Music Lovers are kindly requested to order tickets using the following e-mail address: tickets@wratislavia.art.pl
When ordering the tickets please provide the following information:
-concerts dates and locations
-categories of the ordered tickets
-telephone
The pre-ordered tickets that have been ordered over e-mail and paid by bank transfer could be collected from the Wratislavia Cantans tickets salespoint located at the 'Pasaż pod Błękitnym Słońcem' ('Passage Under the Blue Sun') starting from August 14th.s