Obroty i Zaklęcia

Hash­tag Lab is a home full of nooks and archi­tec­tur­al sur­pris­es. We have played for you in the con­cert hall, the stu­dio, the prac­tice room; we have jumped out of the cloak­room wardrobe, held a dia­logue with a gar­land of toma­toes in the gar­den, pro­ject­ed an opera on the patio. This time we climb to the roof to per­form from there a pro­gramme that is our fan­ta­sy on the theme of the con­tem­po­rary serenade.

Set­tle com­fort­ably into sun loungers on a warm evening and lose your­selves in the music of Kai­ja Saari­a­ho and Sal­va­tore Scia­r­ri­no — two mas­ters of musi­cal paint­ing. Let the ephemer­al sounds of noc­turnes and ser­e­nades min­gle freely with the voic­es of the city, the rus­tle of fruit trees and gusts of wind.

Hash­tag Ensem­ble is cel­e­brat­ing its tenth anniver­sary of artis­tic activ­i­ty, and to mark the occa­sion it presents the musi­cians of the coop­er­a­tive in solo works. The Hash­tag mem­bers, who for years have been per­form­ing in var­i­ous cham­ber line-ups, present in this anniver­sary year their indi­vid­ual musi­cal inter­ests and pre­pare works that reflect their own sen­si­bil­i­ty. In the con­cert Obroty i Zak­lę­cia we will hear flute, vio­lin, accor­dion, cel­lo and vio­la. Thanks to the rooftop loca­tion of the con­cert, we hope these will not be micro-solo recitals but rather a kind of site-spe­cif­ic cham­ber music, in which the instru­men­tal parts will dia­logue with the sounds of the city.

If we were to name the com­posers whose works are clos­est to Hash­tag Ensem­ble, Sal­va­tore Scia­r­ri­no and Kai­ja Saari­a­ho would cer­tain­ly be among them. We had the plea­sure of prepar­ing Scia­r­ri­no’s opera Aspern in audio-video form dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, and sub­se­quent­ly stag­ing it at Teatr Stu­dio in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Warsza­wska Jesień fes­ti­val. Scia­r­ri­no’s musi­cal paint­ing, although it can give the lis­ten­er the impres­sion of nat­u­ral­ly built, del­i­cate tex­tures (often so ephemer­al as to be bare­ly audi­ble), in fact demands great vir­tu­os­i­ty, con­cen­tra­tion and tonal imag­i­na­tion. Kai­ja Saari­a­ho has also been present in our reper­toire before — among oth­ers in the BEZCZAS project for the Muzy­ka Wiary Muzy­ka Poko­ju fes­ti­val. Her deeply mov­ing Cen­dres was heard on that occa­sion along­side works by George Crumb and Mor­ton Feld­man. The out­stand­ing Finnish com­pos­er, who in 2019 was named by the BBC as the great­est liv­ing com­pos­er, spoke of her dream­like works as fol­lows: “I treat the dream as a gate­way to hid­den beings — for instance death and love — fun­da­men­tal things we know noth­ing about.”

How might a con­tem­po­rary ser­e­nade sound on a long June evening? Will sum­mer rooftop con­certs become a per­ma­nent fea­ture of Hash­tag Lab’s pro­gramme? Find out with us.

Pro­gramme:

Sal­va­tore Scia­r­ri­no All’au­re in una lon­tan­za for flute Kai­ja Saari­a­ho Noc­turne for vio­lin Sal­va­tore Scia­r­ri­no Vagabonde Blu for accor­dion Kai­ja Saari­a­ho Spins and Spells for cel­lo Kai­ja Saari­a­ho Vent Noc­turne for vio­la and electronics

Per­form­ers:

Ania Kar­pow­icz flute Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­lin Paweł Janas accor­dion Dominik Pło­cińs­ki cel­lo Alek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka viola

Pro­duc­tion:

Ania Kar­pow­icz pro­gramme con­cept and text

Karol Tomo­ki Yamaza­ki visu­al identity

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk, Kos­ma Standera sound engineering

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka production

Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

Co-financed from the funds of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage from the Cul­ture Pro­mo­tion Fund with­in the “Music” pro­gramme, imple­ment­ed by the Nar­o­dowy Insty­tut Muzy­ki i Tańca.

Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

Part­ners: POLMIC.

Tickets

40 PLN