Performers
CAPELLA CRACOVIENSIS
Established in 1970 and consisting of a chamber choir and an instrumental ensemble, Capella Cracoviensis is one of the leading and most active institutions in Poland’s present-day early music scene. It specialises in historically informed performance practice and performs exclusively on period instruments. Its choir’s repertoire ranges from Renaissance polyphony to mannerist madrigals as well as 19th- and 20th-century songs.
Capella Cracoviensis has earned fame with its semi-theatrical and concert performances of Baroque and early Romantic operas, as well as daring concert projects presented on a grand artistic scale in untypical venues. Their most widely publicised enterprises have included the performance of Beethoven’s complete symphonies in one day on period instruments, as well as Poland’s first production of Wagner’s works on period instruments and the sixyear- long project Haydn 104 (concert performances and live recordings of Haydn’s complete symphonies).
Capella Cracoviensis has appeared at such prestigious festivals as Bachfest Leipzig, Händel-Festspiele Halle, Schwetzingen SWR Festspiele, and others, as well as in world-famous theatres and concert halls, including the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Theater an der Wien, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. It has recorded for such labels as Decca, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Alpha, and Avi Music. Its recording of Porpora’s Germanico in Germania earned Capella Cracoviensis the prestigious Diapason d’Or. The post of its managing and artistic director has been held since 2008 by Jan Tomasz Adamus.
Phot. J. Poremba
Capella Cracoviensis has earned fame with its semi-theatrical and concert performances of Baroque and early Romantic operas, as well as daring concert projects presented on a grand artistic scale in untypical venues. Their most widely publicised enterprises have included the performance of Beethoven’s complete symphonies in one day on period instruments, as well as Poland’s first production of Wagner’s works on period instruments and the sixyear- long project Haydn 104 (concert performances and live recordings of Haydn’s complete symphonies).
Capella Cracoviensis has appeared at such prestigious festivals as Bachfest Leipzig, Händel-Festspiele Halle, Schwetzingen SWR Festspiele, and others, as well as in world-famous theatres and concert halls, including the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Theater an der Wien, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. It has recorded for such labels as Decca, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Alpha, and Avi Music. Its recording of Porpora’s Germanico in Germania earned Capella Cracoviensis the prestigious Diapason d’Or. The post of its managing and artistic director has been held since 2008 by Jan Tomasz Adamus.
Phot. J. Poremba
