It has been the greatest discovery in the history of research on Polish culture for over a hundred years. In the summer of 2018, Professor Wiesław Wydra found a sixteenth-century print containing the entire Master Polycarp’s Conversation with Death – one of the most important works of the Polish Middle Ages, known so far only from an incomplete handwritten copy. Pieśni o śmierci (Songs about Death) is a unique show with the participation of Jan Frycz, Adam Struga and the ensemble Monodia Polska, developed thanks to the cooperation of a scientist and a group of musicians, during which we will hear previously unknown fragments of this medieval text.
PROGRAMME:
based on found by prof. Wiesława Wydrę complete version of Master Polikarp’s Dialogue with Death
I. Master’s Dialogue with Death: Lord Christ Most Holy
II. Song of Death Horrible to All Folk, Now Composed Anew
III. Master’s Dialogue with Death: All Thy Talk, Master, Is in Vain
IV. O How Vain the Secular Joys
V. Master’s DIalogue with Death: Wouldst Thou Care to Taste
VI. Song for a Christian’s Funeral
VII. Master’s Dialogue with Death: I had a spiritual Kin
VIII. Song during a funeral: Media vita in morte sumus
IX. Conculusion: One Man Out of Piety
ARTISTS:
Jan Frycz – monodrama
Adam Strug
Monodia Polska
PHOTOS:
The Eufonie Festival is organized by the National Centre for Culture with the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Patron of the EUFONIE Festival is PKN Orlen