2017-10-24
On 10 November, the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera will be giving the first performance of the show ‘Balety polskie’ [Polish ballets], with music by Eugeniusz Morawski (‘Świtezianka’ [The nymph of Lake Świteź]), Aleksander Tansman (Sextet) and Karol Szymanowski (Violin Concerto No. 2). The choreography was prepared for the Polish National Ballet by Robert Bondara, Jacek Tyski and Jacek Przybyłowicz. The TW-PNO orchestra will be conducted by Łukasz Borowicz.
2017-10-23
On 9 November, works by Karol Szymanowski will be performed in the capital of Paraguay, Asunción. The Orquesta del Congreso Nacional, under the baton of Jorge Luis Uzcátegui, will present the Violin Concerto No. 2 and the 'Symphonie Concertante'.
2015-07-14
As every year, in late July and early August, Zakopane, which used to be a special place in Karol Szymanowski's life, turns into the centre of his music. This year, during the 9 festival days, we will be able to hear the music of the festival patron, as well as the first performance of Trio concerto by Mikołaj Górecki.
2015-05-07
The Musikfestspiele Saar Festival, which is held from February to July 2015, presents “Polish rarities”: the music by Polish classics such as Frederic Chopin, Karol Kurpiński, Stanisław Moniuszko, Karol Szymanowski and modern Polish composers: Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.
2015-05-04
On 1 May 2015 the Karol Szymanowski's 1926 opera King Roger got its Covent Garden premiere.
2014-10-27
Between the 17th and the 31st of October 2014 works by Wojciech Kilar (Orawa), Karol Szymanowski (String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56), Fryderyk Chopin and Mieczysław Karłowicz (Serenade for string orchestra) will be performed in small towns of Catalonia with their great concert halls and experienced audience.
2014-10-23
PWM Edition has just finished its works on the source edition of Karol Szymanowski’s compositions. We found him written - we leave him printed – said with emotion Teresa Chylińska- a scientific editor of book series and one of the most prominent experts of life and works of Karol from Atma.
2014-09-25
This year, Wrocław will play host to the prestigious festival known as World Music Days.
The program contains compositions available from the PWM catalogue incuding composers like Zygmunt Krauze, Witold Lutosławski, Paweł Łukaszewski, Elżbieta Sikora, Karol Szymanowski and Agata Zubel.
2014-09-24
It has taken nearly half a century to complete the project to prepare and publish Karol Szymanowski's entire legacy as a composer: 26 volumes in the Polish edition and 17 in the German-English edition. The Polish Music Publishing House in now concluding the edition of Karol Szymanowski's Works with the score of his opera Hagith.
2014-07-14
The 10th edition of "Chopin and his Europe" festival, entitled "From Chopin and Grieg to Panufnik", will be held between 15th and 31st August.
2014-02-12
From February 14 - March 16 the 1st International Festival of the Wieniawski Brothers will take place in Lublin. The programme is filled with beautiful Polish music.
2013-10-29
"Litany of the Virgin Mary", Op. 59 by Karol Szymanowski and "Victoria" by Wojciech Kilar will be heard at a concert which will take place on November 12 at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
2013-07-23
The primary objective of the project is to present Polish music - music of Szymanowski, Chopin, Lutosławski, Papara, Chyrzyński - abroad.
2013-07-15
UK annual summer music festival, the BBC Proms, will be packed with Polish music this year.
2012-11-27
Four performances of Karol Szymanowski’s "Król Roger" given in Spain on 24, 27, 30 November and 3 December, are an initiative by the Asociación Bilbaína de Amigos de la Ópera and the Grand Theatre in Poznań.
2012-11-26
You can watch a concert by Sinfonia Varsovia under the baton of Marc Minkowski, during which the artists performed works by H.M. Górecki, S. Moniuszko. K. Szymanowski and G. Bacewicz on the French television channel, Mezzo.
2012-11-07
On 13 November the Sinfonia Varsovia under the baton of Marc Minkowski will perform fragments of Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera “Halka”, Karol Szymanowski’s Piano Concerto No.2 op.61 and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs” op. 36.
2012-09-17
The opening of the new artistic season of the Kraków Philharmonic, which will take place on September 21, will delight not just lovers of Polish music (Kilar and Szymanowski, among others, in the concert programme), but also of piano virtuosity.
2012-08-16
Soprano Lavinia Dames performed two arias from Karol Szymanowski’s operetta "Lottery for Husbands" on 20 July in Ossiach as part of the Carinthischer Sommer festival accompanied by the Junge Philharmonie Wien.
2012-07-26
On 16-17 August, the London Symphony Orchestra will perform all of Karol Szymanowski's symphonies under the baton of Valery Gergiev at the Edinburgh International Festival.
2012-07-11
July 21, 2012 Santa Fe Opera will premiere King Roger by Karol Szymanowski, directed by Stephen Wadsworth, one of the most acclaimed contemporary opera directors. The title role will be performed by the prominent Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecień - this will be his first appearance in the role in the United States. The famous singer has already appeared in the role of Roger in the opera houses in Paris and Madrid.
2012-06-26
The Karol Szymanowski Society and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra working in collaboration with the Ludwig van Beethoven Association invites the residents of Zakopane to listen to an extraordinary symphonic concert to be held on 21 July 2012 at 7pm in the Holy Cross Church in Zakopane.
2012-06-25
Nine Zakopane concerts in July will be filled with pearls of Polish piano music, chamber music and orchestral music, always in the best performances.
2012-06-12
Between mid July and September 2012, 180 Polish cultural events will feature in four festivals in the Scottish capital, which every year attract the most interesting artists and nearly half a million audience from around the world. Polish artists will present their work as part of the framework prepared by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, "Polish Arts in Edinburgh in 2012". This is the largest Polish programme shown at the Edinburgh festivals so far.
2012-05-16
In the year of the 130th anniversary of Karol Szymanowski's birth the first edition of a composition competition in the composer's name will be held.
2012-04-27
In anticipation of the upcoming production of Karol Szymanowski's"King Roger" at the The Santa Fe Opera, the Kosciuszko Foundation will host a panel discussion with the celebrated director Stephen Wadsworth and the Tony Award-winning costume designer Ann Hould-Ward who will present a behind-the-scenes look at The Santa Fe Opera's production of this great work.
2012-03-29
Today, 29 March 2012, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of Karol Szymanowski’s death – one of the most accomplished Polish composers of European and worldwide significance and a representative of the Young Poland movement in music.
His invaluable contribution to musical culture includes symphonic works, vocal-instrumental, solo and chamber works.
2012-02-22
This year marks the 130th anniversary of the birth and the 75th anniversary of the death of Karol Szymanowski (born October 3, 1882 in Tymoszówka, died March 29, 1937 in Lausanne). Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne is celebrating these anniversaries with a new critical edition of the Symphony I in F minor, Op. 15 and the Symphony II in B flat major, Op. 19
2012-02-21
Karol Szymanowski's Third Symphony, "Song of the Night" will be heard on February 22, 2012 in London's Royal Festival Hall, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir conducted by Vladimir Jurovski.
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.
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.
2011-10-25
Today, 25 October, in the Cadogan Hall in London, there will be a concert of works by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Karol Szymanowski and Witold Lutosławski as part of the "Polish Contemporary Music Across Europe with Friends" concert series.
2011-10-17
Moniuszko, Górecki, Szymanowski – it will be possible to hear works by these Polish composers next year on French TV Mezzo, who present the greatest works of classical music and jazz.
2011-10-14
A symposium devoted to the works of Karol Szymanowski and a concert performed by the Szymanowski Quartet will take place on 15 and 16 October at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
2011-06-22
Karol Szymanowski's opera, „Król Roger”, directed by David Pountney, will be presented at the Grand Theatre-National Opera on July 1st, the day of the inauguration of the Polish Presidency of the EU.
2011-03-16
From March 29th-31st the 14th festival "Evenings with the music of Karol Szymanowski" at the Music Academy in Katowice will take place, dedicated to the work of the outstanding Polish composer in combination with the work of Manuel de Falla.
2011-03-16
On March 20th, 2011 the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela will present Karol Szymanowski’s Second Violin Concerto op.61
