Sacrum Profanum Festival - Classical-contemporary Music Festival
Performers:
Ute Lemper Mark Minkowski, conductor Sinfonietta Cracovia
Programme
:
Kurt Weill
1:
Sinfonie No 2, from 'Die Sieben Todsunden, The Seven Deadly Sins'
Note:
Sacrum Profanum is one of the most acclaimed music projects in Poland nowadays. Launched in 2003, the project celebrates classical music from the 19th and 20th centuries. The goal of the festival is to present the intertwined motifs of 20th century music repertoire – Sacrum (the sacred) and Profanum (the profane). The festival aims to bring together the masterpieces of instrumental and vocal-instrumental music from different geographical areas to the heart of European continent. In the past years the culture-enriched city of Kraków has seen magnificent performances and contemporary music from Austria, France, Russia and the United States.
This year’s edition, the sixth edition, which takes place from September 14-21, is devoted to German composers. The 2008 Sacrum Profanum Festival will be a large-scale presentation of the 20th century German composers’ repertoire, exposing the pivotal moments and the contested terms such as classics and classical music.