The 2017 edition of the Jane Stirling Festival included several events organized in April in Scotland and in May in Poland. Below you will find more detailed information on the organized events as well as photographs illustrating what really happened during the concerts.
The young for Jane Stirling
free eventThere is a future in the past and hope in the young. It was in this spirit that four young Polish artists paid tribute to Jane Stirling through the artistic output of two Great Romantics – the music of Frederic Chopin and the poetry of Sir Walter Scott. And they did so to demonstrate […]
Nocturnalia
In 1848 Chopin gave a number of concerts in Scotland, but it was during his performances held en famille, in stately houses rather than in large concert halls, that his music showed the melancholy and plaintive sentiment which typically pervaded his ailing soul. Organized in such a mansion – the sixteenth century Bamff House – […]
An Evening with Jane Stirling
An Evening with Jane Stirling was an opportunity to listen to a variety of Chopin’s compositions as performed by the inimitable Anna Dębowska. Her performance during An Evening with Jane Stirling fused the past and the present, as it provide the audience with a unique opportunity to commune with sounds that so clearly carry a message. […]
An hour with Frédéric at 10 Warriston Crescent
free ticketed event, invitations requiredIt was to the apartment of his compatriot – Dr. Lyszczynski – located at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh that Frédéric Chopin repeatedly and eagerly returned. Chopin was granted the nursery in a small bedroom on the first floor, where he would seek both physical and spiritual recovery through his host’s […]
Photographic exhibition – Jane Stirling and Frederic Chopin
The exhibition shows places related to Chopin’s stay in Scotland in 1848. Some of them are the stately homes which the Great Romantic visitted thanks to the hospitability of Jane Strling, her family, and her friends. Photographs by Jakub Orłowski illustrate unique venues, often unavailable to the public, such as the legendary Calder House, New […]
Wieczór z Jane Stirling
AN EVENING WITH JANE STIRLING An Evening with Jane Stirling was an opportunity to listen to a variety of Chopin’s compositions, including the two Nocturnes which he dedicated to Jane Stirling, performed by the inimitable Anna Dębowska. Normally fragile and fearful, Anna becomes a musical sovereign when she tames the grand piano through Chopin’s music. […]
Młodzi dla Jane Stirling
THE YOUNG FOR JANE STIRLINGwstęp wolny/free event There is a future in the past and hope in the young. It was in this spirit that, following the concert held in Stirling on 22 April 2017, four young Polish artists paid tribute to Jane Stirling through the artistic output of Great Romantics – the music of […]
Frédéric, Jane and their piano
The main protaganist of the evening was an absolute jewel among pianos, a unique Playel Piano Forte with the serial number of 13823, once belonging to Jane Stirling, in the 20th century aquired by Éduard Ganche’ – a grand piano which has eventually found its way to Chopin’s homeland and is now exhibitted in The […]