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The most important events of 2014
2015-02-16
2014 brought many interesting events that will certainly become part of the PWM Edition history. Names of new composers were entered in the PWM catalogue, many pieces had their premières and the artists collaborating with our publishing house were honoured with awards and distinctions. Below we present a selection of the most important events of 2014.
New faces in PWM Edition
In 2014 PWM Edition started cooperation with several composers, such as: Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz who is a songwriter and a composer of theatre and film music (click here to see an interview with Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz), Rev. Wojciech Kałamarz - a composer specialising in choral and church music, Henryk Jan Botor - a composer and an organist and Marcin Łukasz Mazur - a composer and a conductor.
Awards
We are proud to announce that many artists cooperating with PWM Edition were honoured with awards and distinctions in 2014. Among those artists we can find: Agata Zubel - who was announced to be one of ten most fascinating and original artists in the world. She also received the Polish Composers’ Union award and Polonica Nova prize. "The New Yorker" has listed Agata Zubel's "Not I" album among the top ten recordings of 2014!. Second excellent artist is Paweł Łukaszewski who won the Choc de Classica award and Jerzy Kurczewski prize. Another distinguished artist who cooperates with PWM Edition is Zygmunt Krauze who was honoured with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Last but not least is Mieczysław Tomaszewski - a long-term director and editor-in-chief of PWM Edition who received the Coryphée of Polish Music award.
Other important events
In 2014 PWM Edition completed the comprehensive edition of the Works of Karol Szymanowski.
For more information click here:
"Hagith" - completion of a series of Works of Karol Szymanowski
Szymanowski now complete!
PWM Edition was a partner of Film Music Festival - a unique event in Europe in terms of sound and motion picture technology as well as the scale and level of artistic performance. On the last day of festival young musicians performed works by Maciej Zieliński and Wojciech Kilar.
We also had sad moments in 2014 connected with passing away of Włodzimierz Kotoński and Jan Ekier.
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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.
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.
