News
September 2015
The 2015 Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
2015-09-30
Soon we will be able to see the contest of the most talented young pianists durning the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. This year the competition received a record number of applications sent by 450 pianists from 45 countries.
British Premiere of the "Not I" of Agata Zubel
2015-09-30
Agata Zubel, composer and singer, as well as the famous Klangforum Wien ensemble, will perform at the opening concert of the contemporary music festival in Haddersfield.
World premiere of "Veni Sancte Spiritus" of Paweł Łukaszewski
2015-09-30
A new choral piece by Paweł Łukaszewski, Veni Sancte Spiritus for Two Unaccompanied Mixed Choirs, dedicated to the memory of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, will be performed for the first time on 2 October at an oratory concert in the Kraków Philharmonic.
58th International Contemporary Music Festival Warsaw Autumn
2015-09-17
Between 18 and 26 September, the 58th International Contemporary Music Festival Warsaw Autumn will be held.The promotion of the National Edition in the USA and Canada
2015-09-09
Recently we have launched a promotional campaign for the National Edition of the works of Frederic Chopin in the USA and Canada, together with Hal Leonard, PWM exclusive distributor in North America.
Singing Wrocław
2015-09-03
Between 6 and 19 September, the 50th International Wratislavia Cantans Festival will be held. The festival in Wrocław will see many world stars and will feature a comprehensive programme with pieces that are particularly involving for the human voice.
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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.