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1st Henryk Mikołaj Górecki International Festival of Contemporary Music
2011-05-31
The 1st Henryk Mikołaj Górecki International Festival of Contemporary Music will be held in Krakow from June 3-5. Admission to all concerts is free.Polish Music At The Inauguration Of The Polish Presidency Of The Council Of The EU
2011-05-27
From 1 July to the end of December 2011, Poland will chair the Council of the European Union. The inaugural ceremony will be held on 1 July in Warsaw. During the evening of musical performances, pieces by composers associated with PWM will be presented. Paweł Mykietyn’s „III Symphony”, written especially for this occasion, will be premiered. During the culminating firework display, we will hear "Orava" by Wojciech Kilar.Dobrzyński's Music in Chicago
2011-05-20
The Lira Ensemble, an American group specializing in the performance of Polish music, will perform on May 26, 2011 in Lutnia Continental Cafe in Chicago. The ensemble will present the Quintet in F minor, op.20, by Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński.Shostakovich's Scores in PWM
2011-05-19
Under an agreement signed between Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne SA, and Dmitri Shostakovich Publishers (DSCH), PWM has become the official and sole representative of Dmitri Shostakovich’s repertoire in Poland. The agreement was made possible as a result of resolving a dispute between the heirs of the Russian composer’s estate.Fryderyk 2011 Awarded
2011-05-11
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Fryderyk 2011 awards! Many of our esteemed colleagues and friends have been recognised in the category of Classical music. Maestro Jerzy Maksymiuk received a special ZŁOTY FRYDERYK 2011 award (GOLDEN FRYDERYK 2011) for outstanding artistic achievements. Here is the list of winners:Premiere of Paweł Łukaszewski's Missa de Maria e Magdala
2011-05-10
The Polish premiere of Paweł Łukaszewski’s Missa de Maria e Magdala took place as the inauguration of the "Gaude Mater" liturgical festival on May 2nd in Częstochowa. The second title of the Mass is Missa Bremgartensis, derived from the Swiss city of Bremgarten, for which it was written.IX Edition Of The Tadeusz Ochlewski Competition
2011-05-09
Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne SA announces the IX Tadeusz Ochlewski Composers' Competition. The subect of the competition for the year 2011 is an original composition for prepared solo instrument.Most popular:
The theme of the 37th Krakow International Festival of Composers is music in music. Already in the 1970s, this issue was studied by the outstanding founder of the Krakow Theoretical School, Professor Mieczysław Tomaszewski. He reflected on the subject in an article entitled “At the Opening: why ‘music in music’”, which was published before one of the famous Music Meetings in Baranów.
The theme of Krzysztof Knittel’s work is refuge and the uncertainty and anxiety about the unknown associated with it, as well as the other side of this topic, i.e. the need to provide help and shelter. The text of the oratorio is based on a poem by Tadeusz Sławek. The piece features singing, recitations, choral parts and improvisations based on the traditions of the Middle East. The album was premiered on 15 March during the 11th Festival of Premieres in Katowice.
Musicologists commonly call it “Kras 52” – after the former reference number it was given in the Krasiński Library. It is the most valuable Polish source of medieval polyphonic music, which shaped the soundscape of the court of the first Jagiellons and Kraków at that time. The manuscript is gaining new life now, thanks to a performance edition by Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett and Marc Lewon. “Krasiński Codex” has just been published by PWM Edition with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Frequent guest of the world’s most famous music venues (New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Royal Albert Hall and BBC Proms, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus), in February 2021 Bomsori signed an exclusive contract with the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label. As of this year, she also bears the honourable title of ambassador of Grażyna Bacewicz’s music, which she performs worldwide, promoting the legacy of Poland’s most important woman composer.
The 4CD album featuring songs and instrumental works by the Silesian master goes on sale as of 8 November. Released by the ANAKLASIS music label, it will be premiered on 3 December during a special PWM Edition concert held as part of the 12th International Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki at the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice.
The esteemed American-Canadian jazz musician Michael Bates, his Acrobat Ensemble and the Lutosławski Quartet will perform three concerts in Poland in November. The repertoire will include material recorded by the musicians on the album METAMORPHOSES: VARIATIONS ON LUTOSŁAWSKI, released by ANAKLASIS in the REVISIONS series.
The artists have already successfully presented it at Lincoln Center and Barbès Jazz Club in New York. In autumn 2024 we will have the opportunity to hear them live for the first time in Poland: 14.11 - Krakow, 15.11 - Lublin, 17.11 - Wroclaw.
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw invites to the inaugural session of the biennial International Digital Musicology Conference, which will be held 23–25 October 2024, at the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Poland. The conference focuses on the integration of digital technologies into musicological research, with a special emphasis on introducing digital tools and methods to the Polish academic community, where digital musicology has not yet been widely adopted.
Although Ludomir Różycki - one of the most important representatives of Young Poland - enjoyed spectacular success as a composer during his lifetime, his works are rarely included in concert programmes today. It is therefore worth remembering his exceptional art.
Aleksander Nowak continues his original cycle of compositions that enter into a dialogue with most recent Polish literary works. The album premiere of his opera based on Marcin Wicha’s Nike-awarded book Things I Didn’t Throw Out will take place during the AUKSODRONE festival in Tychy.
Musical themes from Coppola’s cult movie, as deconstructed and reinterpreted by this wayward duo, will be performed at a live concert accompanied by the premiere of THEMES OF DRACULA from ANAKLASIS on vinyl records.
