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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 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.
It’ s like a game. The memory game, thanks to which you can look at a very ordinary family from an extraordinary perspective. ALBUM RODZINNY [Family album] – an opera by Jerzy Kornowicz with a libretto by Michał Rusinek – is another premiere of the ANAKLASIS label this year. This time, the record brand is expanding its audience to include the youngest listeners. The album will be released on 21st June.
Time passes constantly, changing the world and its soundscape around us. The title IL TEMPO PASSA may be both a reflection on the impermanence of life, world and things and a piece of advice to enjoy the moment. The latest album by ANAKLASIS presents Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa’s cameral and symphonic works from recent years. Premiere on 28 May 2024, on the composer’s 75th birthday.
It is a musical-literary tale about a quest for identity, truth, and for what makes us human. The new stage work by Aleksander Nowak – which is, at the same time, Radek Rak’s operatic debut – explores the sources of good and evil, fusing reality with mythology and steering towards ‘the left-hand side of the world’. The authors spin a tale about the dual human nature. THE TALE OF THE HEART. FAVOLA IN MUSICA – the album that presents their joint project – will go on sale on 6th October.
Spectacularly successful as Ludomir Różycki’s music was in his lifetime, it is seldom programmed nowadays. All the same, such remarkable art could hardly fall into utter oblivion. It has attracted and fascinated excellent jazz pianist Kuba Stankiewicz, who has translated it into the language of jazz. The effects have been recorded and released on ANAKLASIS label’s most recent album, INSPIRED BY LUDOMIR RÓŻYCKI, which goes on sale as of 28th August.
PWM Edition is entering the execution phase of the revitalisation of its Warsaw department. With the commencement of the renovation and the implementation of the assumptions of the architectural design, the Hire Department and the editorial office of “Ruch Muzyczny” are moving to a temporary headquarters at 19 Wiejska Street, Warsaw.
This is by no means a piece about the centuries-long Polish-German conflict. It is, instead, a tale of impossible love, of tragic conflict between personal happiness and the common good.
PWM Edition resumes cooperation with the Italian publishing house Ricordi, as well as with its international partners forming Universal Music Publishing Classics & Screen. This means that rentals of orchestral materials from the catalogues of all publishing houses belonging to Classics & Screen is carried out in Poland by Dział Zbiorów Nutowych (Sheet Music Department) of PWM.
