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Polish Music in China
2015-06-24
On 13 and 14 July, the audience of the Music in the Summer Air festival in Shanghai will hear the music of Polish composers: Wojciech Kilar, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Wojciech Dankowski and Karol Kurpiński, performed by the Young Polish Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Adam Klocek.
Music of Agata Zubel and Paweł Mykietyn in Belgium
2015-06-22
Mons, the European Capital of Culture 2015, showing a sing of respect to Wrocław, which is to be the Capital of Culture 2016, invites Polish artists to present the works of Silesian composers within the frame of the Contemporary Sounds of Poland project. The programme comprises Agata Zubel's Not I and Paweł Mykietyn's 3 for 13.
85th Birthday Anniversary of Romuald Twardowski
2015-06-19
On 17 June, the Warsaw branch of PWM Edition hosted a jubilee concert organised on the 85th anniversary of Romuald Twardowski's birth. The programme comprised the music from various periods of his artistic work. The concert was supervised by Alicja Twardowska.
A Few Questions to Romuald Twardowski
2015-06-17
Today, on June 17th, Romuald Twardowski celebrates 85th birthday. On this occasion we asked him several common and uncommon questions.
85th Birthday of Romuald Twardowski
2015-06-15
17 June will be the 85th birthday of Romuald Twardowski, composer, teacher and author of orchestral, choral and theatre music. His work, encompassing almost all genres, is a boundless source of varied repertoire: from religious music, through song cycles to great orchestra forms.
The Prize of PWM Edition for the Northern Spirit Kammerchor Choir at the "Cracovia Cantans” Festival
2015-06-15
We are happy to inform you that the Northern Spirit Kammerchor choir from Bremen, Germany, won the special prize of EUR 500, founded by PWM Edition on its 70th anniversary.
‘Panufnik: a celebration’ – BBC weekend in Glasgow
2015-06-09
Glasgow plays host to a major retrospective of Andrzej Panufnik music at City Halls on 21 and 22 June.
Paweł Łukaszewski's Sinfonietta per archi in India
2015-06-09
Sinfonietta per archi by Paweł Łukaszewski will have its Indian premiere in June. The work will be presented at concerts in Mumbai and Pune.
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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.
