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Listen! See! ANAKLASIS
2019-10-15
The most interesting phenomena in contemporary music, a broad spectrum of genres, outstanding works, brilliant composers and performers – PWM is launching a new record label. ANAKLASIS will be inaugurated with a concert on 22 November at Mała Warszawa.
Music is a specific form of art, played out over time. Contemporary music is in a difficult situation, as it has little time – innovation becomes tradition in the blink of an eye, the rebel becomes a guardian of the established order, revolution cools to evolution. It is easy to overlook that most creative moment, the time of turmoil and the emergence of something new.
It is easy to appreciate contemporary music once it’s become classic, but why wait? The expectations of composers and the demands of the public are now being met by a new record label under the auspices of PWM: ANAKLASIS. The name comes from the Greek meaning ‘refraction of light’, but it also has a musical manifestation: it is the modification of rhythmic feet involving the switching of their elements. Krzysztof Penderecki also gave the title Anaklasis to a work from 1959, putting that concept into practice.
The wide-ranging repertoire of ANAKLASIS covers Polish music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, renowned composers and performers, and outstanding works. The aim is to popularise contemporary music among listeners with an open mind, willing to be challenged, but who were not necessarily interested in such repertoire before.
The ANAKLASIS catalogue will be divided into series organising the most interesting phenomena linked to contemporary music.
• PORTRAITS – a monographic presentation of the output of contemporary Polish composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
• SOUNDS – a look at contemporary music through the prism of its outstanding interpreters and their instruments.
• REVISIONS – experiments, transgressions, upheavals – a presentation of the output of composers from different musical worlds, such as electronics or improvised music.
• HERITAGE – little-known gems from the Polskie Nagrania and Polish Radio archives.
• IMAGES – audio-video releases, including recordings of operas and concerts and music documentaries.
There will be nine releases on the ANAKLASIS label up to the end of the year.
We inaugurate the work of this new label with a special concert featuring the programme from an album shortly to be released in the REVISIONS series: a new take on songs by Stanisław Moniuszko in arrangements by Cezary Duchnowski. The project E-ŚPIEWNIK is a contemporary interpretation of well-known works performed by the world-renowned composer and peerless vocalist Agata Zubel, the leading cellist Andrzej Bauer and the composer and electronics wizard Cezary Duchnowski. E-ŚPIEWNIK will show the specific qualities and potential of Polish Romantic music in a new light.
The concert promoting ANAKLASIS will take place at 8 p.m. on 22 November at Mała Warszawa (14 ul. Otwocka, Warsaw). Tickets will be available from 22 October through goingapp.pl and an hour before the concert at Mała Warszawa. See you there!
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