(from) Sunday 8th November, 2020 5 pm. Online concert with the pieces written by an almost totally forgotten early romantic composer from Low Silesia, organist of the St. Elisabeth church in Breslau - Ernst Köhler. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/WSwo-XeSgMs

Baroque and classical music performed with my friends and chamber music partners: Łukasz Długosz and Agata Kielar Długosz.

Find our concert on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aCiX2MUs7xU&app=desktop

and dedicated webpage :

https://fletplus.lukaszdlugosz.pl/

Two wonderful alternative (to Mozart and Pergolesi) settings of Stabat Mater and Requiem.

Heinrich Biber's Requiem in the most unusual tonality of F Minor is an amazing and touching piece. Just to say that the 1st violin part is written above the vocal parts ...

And Caldara'a Stabat Mater is an equally interesting alternative to well known Pergolesi's masterwork.

The pieces will be presented twice - in Strzegom (August, 28th) and Cracow (September, 3rd).

Not easy to survive for any performing musician as performing musician during the lockdown. In order to stay sane I started to record short films. You’ll find several playlists exploring different aspects of early keyboard music and historical keyboards like: „Exploring Scheidemann with Marek Toporowski”, „Music Lesson with Marek Toporowski” or „Klein aber fein” („Those charming small keyboards”). Don’t hesitate to pop in!

Difficult to teach during the lockdown. However, I started to prepare some lessons for my students about the pieces they are working on or more general aspects of keyboard playing. I hope that we will be able to teach face-to-face during the next term. Still, I’m planning to keep on with the recording of video lessons!

Recorded already in 2014 but released this year. Vol. 15 of the organ survey of the Lower Lausatia (Niederlausitz) region is available now. For me – the most original and most unusual among my organ Cds. Mostly because of the cooperation with jazz flute player – Ryszard Borowski – improvising and connecting different stations of this organ adventure trip. You’ll find the music in all the musical genres – from renaissance Passamezzo to my own and Ryszard’s compositions and EGATOP by Zsolt Gardonyi. Nice (and most of the time – easy) listening!

On the 29th of July there will be a short demonstration of clavichord and virginal for the students of the piano master classes in Czarnolas (Central Poland). From 18th till 22nd of August I’ll be teaching in Zabrze – you’ll find the useful information below (or on fortepianarium.wordpress.com). And during the last week of August you can take part in the Summer Academy of the Cracow Academy of Music.