News
The World Premiere of Aleksander Nowak's New Composition
2014-04-07
Aleksander Nowak's work "Dziennik zapełnionego w połowie" [Half-filled Diary] for cello, percussion and strings will be premiered on April 10 as part of the Musica Polonica Nova Festival.
Aleksander Nowak's work "Dziennik zapełnionego w połowie" [Half-filled Diary] for cello, percussion and strings will be premiered on April 10 as part of the Musica Polonica Nova Festival.
We will hear Magdalena Bojanowska as the solo cellist, and the „Leopoldinum” Wrocław Chamber Orchestra will be led by Ernst Kovacic.
At the concert, intriguingly titled „Idio-chordo-elektro-Ah…”, which will take place in the Concert Hall of the Wrocław Philharmonic we will also hear the works:
Jacek Sotomski (1987) beautiful to me. ah for accordion, computers and strings (2014)
Dominik Lewicki (1990) DIApreL (2014)
Marcin Rupociński (1971) Horao for strings and video (2014)
Paweł Hendrich (1979) Accant for accordion and electronics (2014)
This work was commissioned in 2013 by Czytelnia Sztuki Muzeum in Gliwice.
The composer included the following annotation to the work:
Jan B. lived for the greater part of the twentieth century and a small part of the twenty-first century. Born and raised in the Wieluń area, he spent his adult life in Gliwice. He had a wife, two children and five grandchildren. He was a mechanical engineer and spent most of his time in the workshop and garage. He patented several technological solutions in the field of building machines. He designed a perpetual motion machine. He abused alcohol. He was rather unhappy and lonely. In the years 1945-1953 he wrote a diary; he filled around half of the approximately 300-page notebook.
Movements of the work:
1. Prolog (Prologue)
2. Czarna rzeka (Black River)
3. Piosenka o prawie niczym (Song About Almost Nothing)
4. Szlifierka i młotek (Grinder and Hammer)
5. Epilog (Epilogue)
Most popular:
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.
In cooperation with the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn, we invite you to two concerts and lectures presenting the diversity and beauty of Polish music.
Over 300 performances of works by Polish composers, 114 finalists, a total of 36 repertoire pieces in 6 age categories, 20 winners, 17 jurors, 4 competition locations and one day of master classes. The piano competition for children and teenagers, “ChopinLand Piano Competition,” is behind us – an extraordinary project that took several months, which PWM Edition organized in Japan. Thanks to cooperation with local partners, Polish music could reach hundreds of young pianists and their teachers, creating the ambassadors of Polish music in the Land of the Rising Sun.
