The most obvious association: a quintet. However, as we will see, an intermezzo can also match the description, as well as a piano or violin concert, as long as they are accompanied by a chamber ensemble. After all, this is what it’s all about: chamber music.

Capella Cracoviensis’s 5×5 Chamber Music Days presents the history of music seen through an unusual perspective of five concerts featuring works for five instruments or five performers. We will hear a range of compositions from late Baroque author Johann Gottlieb Graun, Classical composers Haydn, Mozart, Vaňhal, Ries and Beethoven (however his music was always ahead of his’s times…), early Romantic Mendelssohn, to Bruckner, Brahms, Zarębski and Dora Pejačević who continues the Romantic tradition and style throughout the 19th century and the turn of the 20th century.

10 December 2023, 6pm
5×5 Chamber Music Days Graun / Haydn
Kraków Philharmonic, Golden Hall
Johann Gottlieb Graun Violin Concerto in A major
Joseph Haydn Violin Concerto G in major Hob.VIIa:4
Katarzyna Olszewska violin solo
Maciej Czepielowski Tomasz Góra violin
Teresa Wydrzyńska viola
Konrad Górka cello
Marek Toporowski harpsichord

12 December 2023, 6pm
5×5 Chamber Music Days Vanhal / Mozart / Ries
Kraków Philharmonic, Golden Hall
Johann Baptist Vaňhal Quintet in D minor Op. 12
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto in A major KV 488 part II
Ferdinand Ries Piano Quintet in B minor Op. 74
Szymon Strzelczyk Beata Nawrocka violin
Dymitr Olszewski viola
Aleksandra Buczyńska-Kusak cello
Rafał Gorczyński double bass
Eliza Pawłowska piano

17 December 2023, 6pm
5×5 Chamber Music Days Beethoven / Mendelssohn
Kraków Philharmonic, Blue Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quintet in C minor Op. 104
Felix Mendelssohn String Quintet in B flat major Op. 87
Robert Bachara Agnieszka Świątkowska violin
Jacek Dumanowski Mariusz Grochowski viola
Konrad Górka cello

19 December 2023, 6pm
5×5 Chamber Music Days Bruckner / Brahms
Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, Mirror Hall
Anton Bruckner Intermezzo in D minor WAB 113
Johannes Brahms String Quintet in F major Op. 88
Zofia Wojniakiewicz Jadwiga Czepielowska violin
Mariusz Grochowski Teresa Wydrzyńska viola
Aleksandra Buczyńska-Kusak cello

22 December 2023, 6pm
5×5 Chamber Music Days Zarębski / Pejačević
Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, Main Stage
Juliusz Zarębski Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 34
Dora Pejačević Piano Quintet in B minor Op. 40
Sulamita Ślubowska Seojin Kim violin
Jacek Dumanowski viola
Monika Hartmann cello
Wioletta Fluda-Tkaczyk piano