Lyn Davies is your guide to an evening in southern
Poland, beginning in the old capital, Cracow, once the jewel in Poland's cultural crown. Today the city lies in the shadow of industrial
Katowice and Nowa Huta. To the west lies Auschwitz, and to the south the beautiful Tatra mountains.
Here, in Zakopane, Szymanowski found inspiration, and Penderecki and Gorecki still have homes in the region. Highlights include:
7.40 Times Past
Renaissance and Baroque works by Jarzebski, Milwid and Mielczewski.
8.15 Times Present:
Cracow's Music Academy
Interviews and music from
Zbigniew Bujarski , Marek Stachowski and Boguslaw Schaeffer.
8.55 Blue Skies Special Roger Manser reports on the environmental impact of industrialisation on Cracow.
9.20 Radek Boschetty meets Henryk Gorecki and explores some of the influences that have found their way into his music.
10.00 The Road South:
Zakopane
A sample of traditional folk music: music by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz , whose Eternal Songs were inspired by the scenery here; a tour of Szymanowski's house and a performance of his Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin.
Readers Barry J Gordon ,
Colin Pinney and John Evitts. Producer Andrew Kurowski