{"id":33928,"date":"2025-10-23T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarrasramirez.com\/marcin-dylla-or-when-music-rises-above-pain\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:28:45","slug":"marcin-dylla-or-when-music-rises-above-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarrasramirez.com\/en\/marcin-dylla-or-when-music-rises-above-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcin Dylla or When Music Rises Above Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is something admirable, profoundly human, in the one who\u2014despite <\/span>pain<\/span><\/b>, despite <\/span>adversity<\/span><\/b>, despite the unexpected\u2014chooses to fulfill their destiny<\/span>. Not out of duty, nor by imposition, but out of fidelity to an <\/span>inner vocation<\/span><\/b>, to a craft quietly chosen for life<\/span>.<\/p>\n

On Friday, October 17, in Madrid, within the program of the <\/span>Andr\u00e9s Segovia International Festival<\/span><\/b>, we witnessed one of those moments that the world may overlook, that time may consign to silence, yet which contain more truth than many great tours<\/span>. The <\/span>Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla<\/span><\/b>, having suffered an <\/span>injury<\/span><\/b> the night before at the airport, walked onto the stage with his guitar and, his face drawn by pain, offered half a recital<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Half a recital\u2026 and a whole lesson<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n

It is quickly told: upon arriving in Madrid, just after landing, he was <\/span>accidentally struck<\/span><\/b> by another person<\/span>. The blow must have been strong\u2014strong enough to compromise his <\/span>left arm<\/span><\/b>, which, during the concert the following day, appeared visibly <\/span>swollen<\/span><\/b>. Each note, each measure, each musical phrase bore the imprint of effort<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The opening work by Manuel Ponce<\/b> did not sound with his usual fluency, nor did Joan Man\u00e9n\u2019s<\/b> Fantas\u00eda-Sonata<\/i>, Op. 22<\/span>. Yet <\/span>Dylla<\/span><\/b> knows the language of the guitar as one knows their mother tongue<\/span>. What emerged was an <\/span>unrepeatable moment<\/span><\/b>\u2014intimate, fragile, and profoundly moving<\/span>. Those of us who were there that evening will not remember it for the perfection of his fingering, but for something far deeper: for having witnessed how, even at the threshold of endurance, a true artist can <\/span>transcend adversity<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n

And that is precisely what <\/span>Dylla<\/span><\/b> did that night\u2014he affirmed a <\/span>devotion to the guitar<\/span><\/b> that is rare in our time<\/span>. Despite the mounting pain, increasingly visible in his gestures, he brought the recital to an end by performing and seamlessly fusing two works: <\/span>Kitab I<\/span><\/i>, by <\/span>Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez-Verd\u00fa<\/span><\/b>, and <\/span>Invocation and Dance<\/span><\/i>, by <\/span>Joaqu\u00edn Rodrigo<\/span><\/b>. Two disparate pieces that <\/span>Dylla<\/span><\/b> not only wove together with his characteristic musicality, but rendered with a <\/span>technical precision<\/span><\/b> that, given the circumstances, was nothing short of astonishing<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It was an act of loyalty to art itself<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n
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Marcin Dylla<\/span><\/b> could have canceled the concert that evening<\/span>. No one would have blamed him. Yet he did not<\/span>. He chose to play<\/b>. And that choice, which might appear a simple act of professionalism, was something else entirely\u2014it was an act of loyalty to art itself, a silent declaration of faith in music as vocation<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And if <\/span>Dylla<\/span><\/b> showed determination that Friday, no less touching was the gesture of friendship and artistry from <\/span>Raphaella Smits<\/span><\/b>, who, having just arrived in the city, graciously stepped in\u2014at the organization\u2019s request\u2014to offer a superb repertoire on her exquisite <\/span>romantic guitar<\/span><\/b>, completing the evening with grace and generosity<\/span>.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that this year, the <\/span>Andr\u00e9s Segovia International Festival<\/span><\/b> has not only presented a distinguished program, but also gathered artists who carry the guitar to realms of emotion that extend the very frontiers of art<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Cristina Ram\u00edrez and Gonzalo Montero <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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