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On the 8th Festival of Premieres

2019-04-03

A three-day festival of new music; seven concerts, two installations, nearly fifteen hours of music – only the most recent works. Thirty composers, more than half of whom are associated with PWM Edition – all this has made me happy, and I am leaving Katowice one hundred per cent satisfied,” said Daniel Cichy PhD, Director and Editor-in-Chief of PWM Edition, summing up the 8th Festival of Premieres in Katowice, which came to its close last Sunday.

 

During the Festival we recorded interviews with the composers and performers of all the premiered works which can already be found in the PWM catalogue: Concerto pour violon et orchestre by Elżbieta Sikora, Diva by Sławomir Kupczak, Rigaudon by Dariusz Przybylski, Colus by Aleksander Nowak, and Eclipse of Time by Mikołaj Górecki.

 

We warmly encourage you to listen to the interviews, which provide plenty of information about the new works. They can be found on PWM Edition’s YouTube profile (playlist: Studio PWM)

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