Wspaniale jest być w gronie zaproszonych na obchody Dnia Niepodległość. Bo my, na obczyźnie tak proszę pństwa emigranci zarobkowi czy jacy kolwiek inni myślimy o Polsce.
Cieszymy się z sukcesów ojczyzny i jesteśmy dumnymi patriotami. Ambasady na całym świecie są dla nas jednym z punktów kontaktu, łączności z krajem rodzonym i dajemy wyraz miłości do kraju biorąc udział w uroczystościach oraz je też współorganizując.
Wśród zaproszonych gości jest Prezydent M.S. Debono, korpus dypomatyczny oraz rodacy - ci, którzy rzecz jasna się deklarują Polami i na wezwanie ambasady czas na budowanie relacji maltańsko-polskich mają.
https://president.gov.mt/speeches/speech-by-h-e-president-myriam-spiteri-debono-during-polands-national-day-commemoration/
Air connectivity between Malta and Poland has also expanded, with multiple flights weekly to cities such as Gdansk, Katowice, Krakow, Wroclaw, and Poznan. We look forward to welcoming Rainbow Airways as they begin chartered flights between our two nations in 2025.
Malta was favoured by Polish nationals in 2023, as a holiday venue when more than 143,000 Polish tourists visited Malta, an increase of 60% from 2019. Such visits enable first-hand cultural exchanges, enriching our nations’ relationship by deepening mutual understanding of our cultural heritage.
W podzięce możemy wysłuchać znakomitych muzyków, kótrzy promują polską kulturę wszem i wobec. Skrzypce Stradivariuss !
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Casino Maltese - i ja tam byłem i pierś dumnie piąłem ...
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On 18 November 1918, after having been wiped off the map as a sovereign state, Poland rose from the ashes of partitions and war. The Republic of Poland was proclaimed. By 1795 the country had been systematically nibbled at by its three greedy neighbours under the latter’s crowned brigand-despots of Russia, Prussia and the Habsburg lands.
Earlier this week, 106 years after achieving independence, H. E. Dr. Tomas Czyszek, Polish Ambassador to Malta, hosted a reception at the Casino Maltese, Valletta to celebrate Poland’s national day. Guest of honour was H. E. Dr. Myriam Spiteri Debono, President of the Republic of Malta.
After the speeches were delivered with mutual toasts to the respective Republics, the numerous guests moved to the ballroom to enjoy a very special concert. It WAS special because how often could one go to a concert during which a Stradivarius violin features in every work on the programme? Hardly a what could be called a common occurrence!
The concert was dubbed Henryk Wieniawski in Memoriam. One of the greatest violinists of all time. He was born in 1835 and died in 1880. I was not aware of any special anniversary attached to those dates. In any case music by Wieniawski is always worth listening to, at ANY.
Our gifted star violinist of international fame, Carmine Lauri, featured in a set of brief salon pieces by Wieniawski. As brief as they are, packed with technical challenges which require none but the ablest to tackle. One like Lauri who aptly has them in bucketfuls, also able to tap his own musicality which makes these pieces not just “show” pieces but a wholesome musical experience.
Another gifted musician was Polish pianist Michał Francuz, who like Lauri was at his post all the time providing wonderful support and in full rapport with the violinist.
Carmine Lauri was performing on a Stradivari violin from “the Golden Period” dating to 1701, and kindly loaned by Anna Kosińska of the Anna Kosińska Foundation for Classical Music, which generously supported this concert.
The first piece was Mazurk in in G Major, Op. 19 n.1, “Obertas” (1860). The amazingly beautiful tone if the violin filled the ballroom with a special magic. It continued with another Mazurka Op.12 n.1 “Sielanka”, (1850) so called because it is a pastoral) idyll.
Later, work from 1858 was performed, Souvenir de Posen in D minor. Op.3. Posen was in Prussia at the time and is what we know as Poznań in Polish. The piece has a wistful air about it whereas the next piece was downright haunting.
Carmine Lauri announced a change in the programme when he said that violinist Anna Kosińka was joining him in an arrangement for two violins and piano of the main theme from the film “Schindler’s List” (1993), original music by John Williams (b.1932). There was no hint whose arrangement it was. The piece was very bittersweet: for its beauty and interpretation, yet sad because of the context.
A very famous Polonaise in D Major Op.4 dating to 1852 was performed with all that beautiful almost stately tempo which also had some dazzling pyrotechnics.
Very lively too was the Scherzo Tarantelle Op. 16 from 1855, also off the programme and performed at the request of a friend.
The concert ended with one of the best performances I have experienced of the Quintet for piano and strings N.2 in A Major Op. 81 (B.155).
Dating to 1887, joining in yhis performance were Anna Kosińska, viola player Garfield Jackson and Polish cellist Maciej Kułakowski who opened the quintet on with its first theme, very warm and mellow The Allegro ma non tanto flowed with a boundless richness of melody.
A certain assertive conclusion with an air of finality resulted in misguided applause. The magical Dumka: Andante con moto was not disrupted but the exciting Scherzo Furiant: Molto vivace provoked an unnecessary rather partly troppo vivace applause. The Finale, Allegro was tremendously good, the result of exceptional teamwork which made this concert a truly unforgettable experience.
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