Respublica vs. Ottoman Empire

Exciting subject on interesting and turbulent times when the two culturally different empires struggled to obtain dominion or, sometimes, fought for survival. And often it was a fight for life and death …  

The subject that is equally good as a plot of a concert programme and a screenplay. So, there is The Republic of Both Nations (united kingdom of Poland and Lithuania) called by popes “Antemurale Christianorum – Before wall of Christianity” in a dynamic confrontation with a rich Islamic culture of Ottoman Empire, today’s Turkey.

Our concert is a vision of two different music ideas of two contrasting worlds. Yes, it  is a tale about war and battles, about virtues and heroism. But it is also a tale of a reciprocal cultural influence between the two countries and, above all, about a great respect that the two nations had, and still have, for each other.

Concert programme features not only pieces of Polish and Turquish origin, but also music from the countries that were, at that time, under political and cultural influance of these two great powers (Lithuania, Russia, Austria, Germany,  Hungary, Moldavia, Transsilvania, Bulgaria). Sounds of a battle field, music of wandering and human emotions. Sacrum and profanum. Life, love and death.

Early music from the turn of the Renaissance and Baroque era through XVIIth century and ethnic music. 

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We cordially invite all the people familiar with Islamic culture – historians, musicologists, musicians – that can help us and bring their own knowledge and skills to our new concert project!