Edition 2005
A film festival should not only honour well-known names and celebrate the stars. It should also try to make the unknown known. The annual film concert in the Vlaamse Opera puts the spotlight on Polish composers.
Even if it does not immediately ring a bell, Polish music might not be that unfamiliar after all. Zbigniew Preisner, Wojciech Kilar and Jan A.P. Kaczmarek are indeed three well-known names. Jan A.P. Kaczmarek won the Oscar for his score on Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland. Zbigniew Preisner wrote the music for the masterpiece Three Colours: Blue, White, Red. Many critics described the music as a character on its own, thus making it an essential part of these movies directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. For that same director Preisner wrote a ‘Requiem’ which is still performed to this day.
Preisner works by the following motto: “I only want to write good music. I do not want to write in a particular style for a particular movie”. He applies this to perfection and that is why his music is so powerful. This concert leaves an unforgettable impression of how Preisner integrates a voice and a choir into his music, adorning it with a special colour and sound.Our guest conductor Krzysztof Herdzin performs a suite of his own hand. The music reminds us of movies such as The Pianist, The Portrait of a Lady and Dracula, but firstly invokes the folkish roots of Polish film music.
Preisner works by the following motto: “I only want to write good music. I do not want to write in a particular style for a particular movie”. He applies this to perfection and that is why his music is so powerful. This concert leaves an unforgettable impression of how Preisner integrates a voice and a choir into his music, adorning it with a special colour and sound.Our guest conductor Krzysztof Herdzin performs a suite of his own hand. The music reminds us of movies such as The Pianist, The Portrait of a Lady and Dracula, but firstly invokes the folkish roots of Polish film music.