🎹鋼琴的大千世界：波蘭鋼琴學派代表人物之一、華沙蕭邦國際鋼琴大賽創辦人之一Zbigniew Drzewiecki(8 April 1890 – 11 April 1971)於五十年前過世。

📹 Zbigniew Drzewiecki演奏蕭邦的升c小調夜曲：
https://youtu.be/L5keCV75XyQ

🎼 Exactly 50 years ago, Zbigniew Drzewiecki, an outstanding figure in the history of Polish piano playing, legendary pedagogue and co-initiator of the Chopin Piano Competition, died in Warsaw.

🎹 As a pianist, Drzewiecki traveled throughout Europe, performing the works of Chopin, Bach, Beethoven and contemporary Polish composers. Since 1916 he was also an active pedagogue, which he remained until his death. He was rector of the Academy of Music in Warsaw. Drzewiecki had an enormous influence on several generations of pianists, and the winners of Chopin Competitions were among his pupils: Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Adam Harasiewicz, Fou Ts'ong, Lidia Grychtołówna, Marta Sosińska, Regina Smendzianka and others.

🏆 He was one of the initiators of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, and then a juror at all its editions until 1965, serving as chairman of the jury from 1949.

While the pandemic may have forced us to cancel our regular cantata concerts for the rest of 2020, it certainly hasn’t quashed our musical spirit! After offering special broadcasts in March, April and May on the cantatas of our cancelled concert programme, from June onwards, we will be offering – on each of our planned concert dates – new performances and programmes via live streaming.

For our next programme on Friday 19 June, Rudolf Lutz is going to offer us something new: in response to the numerous comments and questions from our international community, he will explore the fascinating topic of improvisation! What is the role of improvisation in classical music, especially in baroque music and Bach’s oeuvre? And what is improvisation, exactly? How does it work? Join Rudolf Lutz for explanations and demonstrations streamed live from the church in Stein, Switzerland.

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Friday, June 19th, 2020, from 6:45 P.M. onwards

Programme

6:45 P.M.
Introduction with Rudolf Lutz und Xoan Castineira

7:00 - 8:30 P.M.
Lecture-recital on improvisation with Rudolf Lutz (keyboard and organ)

Rudolf Lutz is not only regarded in the music world as an eloquent pedagogue, able to explain complex compositional contexts in a vivid way, but he is also one of the most sought-after improvisers worldwide. He will give his presentation in English to do justice to our large Internet community.

The church of Stein AR has a very valuable instrument built by Orgelbau Kuhn AG in 1985. We love to hold organ recitals there, and many visitors of the "Appenzeller Bachtage" know the beautiful church because of "Singen in der Früh", the popular sing-along programme in our festival in August.

Cantata performances of the J.S. Bach Foundation

Our cantata performances will be postponed until the end of the covid crisis. We hope to resume our performing activities in January 2021.

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Bach leads us from the valley of death and darkness to the final and light Last Supper in Paradise. Rudolf Lutz will demonstrate on the organ (Friday, April 17th, 2020, from 6.45 P.M. onwards) that the movements of BWV 4 "Christ lag in Todesbanden" could also be interpreted as chorale preludes.

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There is not much else we could do (with the means still available and permitted) in order to maintain our memories of the cantata concert we had originally planned, but performing the very piece of music—just in a different way, namely with our proven one-man ensemble, Rudolf Lutz, at the keyboard and on the organ.

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Programme

Friday, April 17th, 2020, from 6:45 P.M. onwards

Rudolf Lutz will demonstrate on the organ at the church of Stein that the movements of this cantata could also be interpreted as chorale preludes. While Bach certainly set out to demonstrate his striking ability to illuminate the individual paintings that the cantata movements represent, Rudolf Lutz will illuminate the complexity of chorale preluding on the basis of this cantata.

In view of the prevailing epidemic and its serious consequences, but also and especially because of the text and the music, this will not be an easy fare. Consolation is not in sight. We cannot change it, neither can we gloss over the current situation nor play down the story told at Easter. Who would have thought until very recently that a sentence by Luther such as "the strangler can no longer harm us" would suddenly become today’s thrusting prayer?

1. Sinfonia

2. Versus 1

Christ lag in Todes Banden
für unsre Sünd gegeben,
er ist wieder erstanden
und hat uns bracht das Leben.
Des wir sollen fröhlich sein,
Gott loben und ihm dankbar sein
und singen halleluja. Halleluja.

3. Versus 2

Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt
bei allen Menschenkindern;
das macht’ alles unsre Sünd,
kein Unschuld war zu finden.
Davon kam der Tod so bald
und nahm über uns Gewalt,
hielt uns in seinem Reich gefangen.
Halleluja.

4. Versus 3

Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn,
an unsre Statt ist kommen
und hat die Sünde weggetan,
damit dem Tod genommen
all sein Recht und sein Gewalt;
da bleibet nichts denn Tods Gestalt,
den Stachel hat er verloren.
Halleluja.

5. Versus 4

Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg,
da Tod und Leben rungen;
das Leben da behielt den Sieg,
das Leben behielt den Sieg,
es hat den Tod verschlungen.
Die Schrift hat verkündiget das,
wie ein Tod den andern fraß,
ein Spott aus dem Tod ist worden.
Halleluja.

6. Versus 5

Hie ist das rechte Osterlamm,
davon Gott hat geboten,
das ist hoch an des Kreuzes Stamm
in heißer Lieb gebraten.
Das Blut zeichnet unser Tür,
das hält der Glaub dem Tode für,
der Würger kann uns nicht mehr schaden.
Halleluja.

7. Versus 6

So feiren wir das hohe Fest
mit Herzensfreud und Wonne,
das uns der Herr erscheinen läßt.
Er ist selber die Sonne,
der durch seiner Gnaden Glanz
erleuchtet unsre Herzen ganz,
der Sünden Nacht ist verschwunden.
Halleluja.

8. Choral Versus 7

Wir essen und leben wohl
in rechten Osterfladen;
der alte Sauerteig nicht soll
sein bei dem Wort der Gnaden.
Christus will die Koste sein
und speisen die Seel allein,
der Glaub will keins andern leben.
Halleluja.

Rudolf Lutz is not only regarded in the music world as an eloquent pedagogue, able to explain complex compositional contexts in a vivid way, but he is also one of the most sought-after improvisers worldwide. He will give his presentation in English to do justice to our large Internet community.

The church of Stein AR has a very valuable instrument built by Orgelbau Kuhn AG in 1985. We love to hold organ recitals there, and many visitors of the "Appenzeller Bachtage" know the beautiful church because of "Singen in der Früh", the popular sing-along programme in our festival in August.