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The Holy Saturday concert prepared by Ensemble Peregrina led by Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett and the La Morra ensemble led by Michał Gondko was not only an opportunity for spiritual reflection and a moment of rest, but also a harbinger of the joy that is brought by Easter. The venue of the concert – the Chapel of St. Kinga situated 101 m below the ground in the Wieliczka Salt Mine – was a suitable place to concentrate and provided an appropriate climate for medieval music.

On Good Friday, Mark Minkowski traditionally performed with his excellent ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble at the festival. Before the performance, however, the French conductor was granted symbolic Keys to the city gates by Magdalena Sroka – Deputy Mayor of Krakow for Culture and City Promotion. On that occasion, he admitted that he is always received very warmly by the Krakow audience and whenever he performs in Krakow, he feels as if he were giving a concert for a circle of his closest friends. He dedicated the granted Keys to his distant cousin Maurycy Minkowski (1881-1930) – a painter who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow at the beginning of the 20th century.

Check out reportage from the first three days of the 10th Misteria Paschalia Festival.

Holy Thursday marks the beginning of the Paschal Triduum celebrated by Christians and this is reflected in the programme of the concert entitled Mater Dolorosa prepared by Les Talens Lyriques under the lead of their harpsichordist, Christophe Rousset.

Tomorrow (Good Friday, the 29th of March), at 10.50 p.m., TVP 2 will for the first time show the recording of a unique musical performance featuring St. Luke Passion, one of Krzysztof Penderecki’s most famous pieces, as directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna. Two premiere performances with audience participation took place on the 31st of March and the 1st of April 2012 at the Alvernia Studios near Krakow, the most state-of-the-art film studio in Poland.

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