News
January 2012
Agata Zubel's Concerts in Seattle
2012-01-30
SCP brings fascinating composers, virtuoso performers and musicologists to Seattle to join in the festival. Soprano Agata Zubel returns to perform works by Georges Aperghis (Greece), Luís Tinoco (Portugal) and Luciano Berio (Italy) following exciting collaborations with SCP in Seattle, at San Francisco’s Other Minds festival and at the Warsaw Autumn festival.Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's Music in Krzysztof Pastor's Ballet
2012-01-24
On January 28 at the National Opera in Warsaw it will be possible to see Krzysztof Pastor's ballet, „I przejdą deszcze…”, in which the author used Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s music.Mykietyn, Kilar, Górecki, Lutosławski, Zubel and Nowak at Sacrum Profanum 2012
2012-01-23
The programme of the festival Sacrum Profanum 2012 is already known. As is clear from the organizers’ announcement, the festival, which will take place in September in Kraków, will bring together the cream of performers from around the world, while the programme will include many pieces by composers associated with PWM.Karol Szymanowski's 1st Violin Concerto Performed by Agata Szymczewska in Bucharest
2012-01-20
Karol Szymanowski's Violin Concerto I, performed by Agata Szymczewska, will be heard January 20 at 19.00 in the Romanian Atheneum in Bucharest. The soloist will be accompanied by musicians of the G. Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Daisuke Soga.Nomination for the Sztorm Roku 2011 Award for Elżbieta Sikora and Anna Niewiedział
2012-01-19
Elżbieta Sikora, composer of the opera „Madame Curie”, and Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział, creator of the title role, have been nominated for the Sztorm Roku 2011 Award.Karol Szymanowski Performed by Rafał Blechacz
2012-01-19
A new album by Rafał Blechacz, winner of the fifteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, will be released by Deutsche Grammophon at the beginning of February. It will contain works by Debussy and Szymanowski.Review of the Opera "Madame Curie" in "Ruch Muzyczny"
2012-01-17
We would like to present fragments of the review in the last edition of last year’s “Ruch Muzyczny” of Elżbieta Sikora’s opera „Madame Curie, written by Anna Pęcherzewska–Hadrych."Łańcuch IX" - The Lutosławski Festival in the 99th Anniversary of the Composer's Birth
2012-01-17
From 25 January - 4 February 2012, the ninth edition of the "Łańcuch IX" festival, organized by the Witold Lutosławski Society, will take place in WarsawA Week of Polish Contemporary Music on the Q2 Antenna
2012-01-17
A block of programmes dedicated to Polish contemporary music, entitled MUZYKA NOWA: A Celebration of Contemporary Polish Music is being broadcast from yesterday until January 22 by internet radio broadcaster Q2, a department of New York broadcaster WQXR.Interview With Mikołaj Górecki
2012-01-17
Mikołaj Górecki gave radio interviews and prepared a playlist of his favorite pieces of Polish music under the auspices of the week of contemporary Polish music prepared by WQXR radio, which can be heard tomorrow at 19.00 EST.Most popular:
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.
The most fascinating phenomena in contemporary music; a wide range of genres; outstanding works, excellent composers and performers – are the trademarks of the record label ANAKLASIS, launched by PWM Edition. ANAKLASIS is now celebrating its third birthday. It continues to grow at a dizzying pace and maintains the high artistic standards of its releases.
When asked to attempt a definition of her music, she called it lyrical expressionism. The choice of this term says much about the emotional intensity of Elżbieta Sikora’s music, which may reflect the experience of her two home countries, Poland and France, but is also a consequence of her artistic maturation in an age when two powerful trends – the avant-garde and neo-Classicism – were vying for the palm. Such a label may also result from the artist’s focus on the listener as her target, whom she invariably attempts to surprise, shock, or bewilder.