Dorota Szczepańska - Lamento Project (2022)

A unique trio, initiated by the Polish soprano Dorota Szczepańska, combining various passions of 17th and 21st century music. The band consists of: Israeli lutenist Alon Sariel and German jazz bassist Peter Schwebs. Unable to implement their plans for 2020 as soloists and band musicians, the three found themselves in their own neighborhood and were immediately supported by the NeuStart Kultur scholarship in Germany in their first steps together. At the beginning of 2022, their first studio EP, Lamento Project, will be released.

The program includes 3 music blocks in which one song flows smoothly into another, swinging between baroque and popular music with a hint of jazz!
During an hour-long recital of creative arrangements by Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell and Stradella, they will befriend Sting, Bob Telson, the Mexican song La Llorona and the song from the game The Witcher by Marcin Przybyłowicz. Some of the most beautiful baroque laments will also be presented: Lamento d'Arianna, Dydony's Lament, Lamento della Ninfa and Miranda's Lament - a composition by Krzysztof A. Janczak created especially for the Lamento Project, based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
The concert as a whole creates a story about lamento as a timeless, heterogeneous phenomenon, full of many shades, but ultimately leading to release!