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Festival of Film Music with Alberto Iglesias's Music
2013-09-25
Already tomorrow the 6th Film Music Festival in Krakow will start. The special guest of the inaugural concert at the Krakow Philharmonic is Alberto Iglesias, creator of music for many films by Pedro Almodóvar.World premiere of 'In' composed by Agata Zubel
2013-09-21
On September 21 in Staatsoper in Hannover will be performed a new work of Agata Zubel entitled 'In'. This work composed for large orchestra was commisioned by the Hannoverian Society for New Music in occassion of Lutosławski anniversary. The details are here.Polska Music Now Debate
2013-09-20
Who for the present-day musical aesthetics in Poland? The debate is organized by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and will take place 21st of September 2013 in the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw.Polish Icons 2. Lutosławski at the Sacrum Profanum Festival
2013-09-09
The eleventh edition of the Sacrum Profanum festival will take place in Krakow between the dates 15-22 September. It will be crowned with the next stage of the Polish Icons project, whose hero this year is Witold Lutosławski.Concert of Derwid works in the Manor Białoprądnicki - photogalery
2013-09-06
We present to you pictures of our concert with Derwid's (Witold Lutosławski) popular songs.Witold Lutosławski's Music in Kharkiv
2013-09-04
On September 27 in Kharkiv Philharmonic Concert Hall there will be a concert of music by Witold Lutosławski – the orchestra will be led by Roman Rewakowicz, and Olga Pasiecznik (soprano) and Maciej Grzybowski (piano) will also perform.World Premiere of Agata Zubel's "IN" in Germany
2013-09-04
On 22 September in the Hannover Staatsoper Agata Zubel's work for large orchestra, „IN”, will receive its world premiere.The French Celebrate the Birthdays of Elżbieta Sikora and Witold Lutosławski
2013-09-03
On September 6 in Paris there will be a concert on the occasion of Elżbieta Sikora's 70th birthday and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Witold Lutosławski - music lovers will hear Sikora's „Sono-sphère 1-Twilling” (world premiere) and Lutosławski's "Chain 1" amongst other works.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.
