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Paweł Mykietyn – the March Composer of the Month
2019-03-01
At the start of the month – we introduce the new protagonist of our project COMPOSER OF THE MONTH – Paweł Mykietyn.
Grażyna Bacewicz – the February Composer of the Month
2019-02-01
We had no doubts as to who should be the protagonist of our COMPOSER OF THE MONTH project in February. Unequivocally and without hesitation, we pointed to Grażyna Bacewicz.
Agata Zubel is Composer-in-Residence to Ensemble 2e2m in Paris
2019-01-13
Agata Zubel, “the veritable volcano of the Polish music scene”, has been invited by Ensemble 2e2m, one of the most prestigious new music groups in France, to be their composer-in-residence in Paris for the year 2019.
In this way, the ensemble has shown its appreciation for Agata Zubel’s versatile talent both as a composer and a soloist performing in venues throughout the world.
Agata Zubel – the January Composer of the Month
2019-01-02
Agata Zubel is a unique figure – a composer who has taken the world’s music stages by storm and has remained present on them for many years now. Her successive works confirm her rare sensitivity, resourcefulness, and the confidence with which she applies her musical tools.
She receives commissions for new pieces from all over the world, and her compositions win awards in Poland and abroad.
Inventory Break
2018-12-20
Inventory Break from December 31, 2012 to Jan 11, 2019.
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PWM is ending to process internet orders from foreign countries
2018-12-18
Beginning from 2019.01.01 PWM Edition is not going to process any orders from countries other than Poland. Please find your local distributor on the list (link: https://pwm.com.pl/en/partners/other), or order our sheet music through the Hal Leonard online shop: http://www.musicshopeurope.com, http://www.halleonard.com.
Zygmunt Krauze. 'The Declaration'. World Premiere.
2018-09-10
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be regarded as the first significant achievement of the UN in the field of protection of human rights. It was adopted in 1948.
Zygmunt Krauze – 70 years after the document was created and 100 years since Poland regained its independence – referring to the provisions of the Declaration, in his latest work he makes reflections on the condition of contemporary societies.
News
2018-08-02
We would like to inform that starting from the 1st of August 2018 PWM Edition has the exclusive distributor - Hal Leonard Europe - for the following countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy.
World premiere of Marcel Chyrzyński’s ‘Ukiyo-e No. 4’
2018-07-10
In the last week of July (22-29.07.2018), the 41st Days of Music by Karol Szymanowski will take place in Zakopane. During this year's edition of the festival a number of chamber concerts and recitals are planned. The program will be dominated by 'classics' of the nineteenth and twentieth century: Chopin, Paderewski, Górecki, also Bartòk, Beethoven or Ravel. Of course, there will be plenty of Karol Szymanowski's music as well.
‘For you, Anne-Lill’ – works by Górecki, Kilar and Lutosławski on a DUX CD
2018-06-07
DUX has released a disc featuring works for flute and piano by Polish composers. The performers, Agata Kielar-Długosz and Andrzej Jungiewicz, present works by composers whose music is rooted in various twentieth-century trends. The disc will include works from the PWM catalogue: Wojciech Kilar’s ‘Sonatina’, Witold Lutosławski’s ‘Three Fragments for flute and piano’ and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s ‘For you, Anne-Lill’. There are also works by Andrzej Panufnik, Piotr Perkowski, Aleksander Tansman and Krzysztof Penderecki.
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The theme of Krzysztof Knittel’s work is refuge and the uncertainty and anxiety about the unknown associated with it, as well as the other side of this topic, i.e. the need to provide help and shelter. The text of the oratorio is based on a poem by Tadeusz Sławek. The piece features singing, recitations, choral parts and improvisations based on the traditions of the Middle East. The album was premiered on 15 March during the 11th Festival of Premieres in Katowice.
Musicologists commonly call it “Kras 52” – after the former reference number it was given in the Krasiński Library. It is the most valuable Polish source of medieval polyphonic music, which shaped the soundscape of the court of the first Jagiellons and Kraków at that time. The manuscript is gaining new life now, thanks to a performance edition by Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett and Marc Lewon. “Krasiński Codex” has just been published by PWM Edition with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Frequent guest of the world’s most famous music venues (New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Royal Albert Hall and BBC Proms, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus), in February 2021 Bomsori signed an exclusive contract with the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label. As of this year, she also bears the honourable title of ambassador of Grażyna Bacewicz’s music, which she performs worldwide, promoting the legacy of Poland’s most important woman composer.
The 4CD album featuring songs and instrumental works by the Silesian master goes on sale as of 8 November. Released by the ANAKLASIS music label, it will be premiered on 3 December during a special PWM Edition concert held as part of the 12th International Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki at the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice.
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.
Although Ludomir Różycki - one of the most important representatives of Young Poland - enjoyed spectacular success as a composer during his lifetime, his works are rarely included in concert programmes today. It is therefore worth remembering his exceptional art.
Aleksander Nowak continues his original cycle of compositions that enter into a dialogue with most recent Polish literary works. The album premiere of his opera based on Marcin Wicha’s Nike-awarded book Things I Didn’t Throw Out will take place during the AUKSODRONE festival in Tychy.
Musical themes from Coppola’s cult movie, as deconstructed and reinterpreted by this wayward duo, will be performed at a live concert accompanied by the premiere of THEMES OF DRACULA from ANAKLASIS on vinyl records.
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.
