Classical Music in Poland and the Europe of Chopin - From the Reviewer's Notebook

    I will not be covering as a music critic the remarkable Duszniki Zdrój International Chopin Festival this year  Programme 2.08.2024 Friday  8 pm Inaugural Recital Martin GARCIA GARCIA 3.08.2024 Saturday  4 pm Hao RAO 8 pm Jan JIRACEK von ARNIM 4.08.2024 Sunday  4 pm Eryk PARCHAŃSKI Mateusz DUBIEL 8 pm Yeol Eum SON 5.08.2024 Monday   4 pm Jaeden IZIK-DZURKO 8 pm Alexander GADJIEV 6.08.2024 Tuesday  4 pm Sophia LIU 9 pm NOKTURN Host: Sławomira ŁOZIŃSKA 7.08.2024 Wednesday  4 pm Adi NEUHAUS 8 pm Szymon NEHRING 8.08.2024 Thursday  4 pm Piotr ALEXEWICZ 8 pm Eric GUO Concert on a historical piano 9.08.2024 Friday  4 pm Avery GAGLIANO 8 pm Beata BILIŃSKA 10.08.2024 Saturday  4 pm Arsenii MOON 8 pm Final Recital Alberto NOSÈ Here is the full programme of works chosen by the artists https://festival.pl/en/79th-duszniki-international-piano-festiwal-programm/ XXIII National Piano Master Classes in Duszniki-Zdrój Lecturers August 2-6, 2024 – Prof. Jan JIRACEK von ARNIM On: August 2, 4, 5 and 6

  Today (5.00 pm August 1st 2024) I will watch the extraordinarily moving and symbolic commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising on television simultaneously in the many ceremonial venues (including boats on the Vistula)  of the Warszawa Pamieta.  Someone once  asked me to express the nature of Poland in one word. I replied  'Resistance'  . Such was the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.    The conflagration of Warsaw 17.00 August 1st.1944 The abandoned.... The valiant men... This uprising must never be forgotten and will not be despite the indelible controversy surrounding it This is also a nation of truly remarkable Polish women  Independent, powerful, determined, loyal, intelligent, courageous,  and  beautiful... And their children..... Chapter 4 ' Warsaw the Phoenix ' from  A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland  by Michael Moran (Granta, London 2009) English version       (Version in Polish below printed in green) Abandoned by the Allies in thrall Stalin,