Sensuous poems by Leopold Staff and Bolesław Leśmian have inaugurated the 6th edition of MEISINGER MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Miniatures by leading representatives of the Young Poland literary movement, set to music by Bartłomiej Marusik (who was present at this concert), were brilliantly interpreted by world-famous mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis and excellent guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger, the founder of this Festival.

They performed settings of poems: ‘Fate’, ‘Dusk’, ‘Lover’, ‘Remote Closeness’, ‘A Spell’, ‘Mystery’, ‘I’m Standing at the Door’, ‘If I Met You’, ‘Lunar Poem’, and ‘I Like to Whisper’, previously recorded on the Fryderyk 2021-nominated CD titled Songs Sung at Night.

Notably, the authors of these poems were born when the architectural concept of the Lentz Villa was taking shape: Staff in 1878, Leśmian in 1877.

The programme, presented in the Villa’s interiors, made an enormous impression on the audience. Naturally there was an encore.