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Agata Zubel's Concerts in Seattle
2012-01-30
SCP brings fascinating composers, virtuoso performers and musicologists to Seattle to join in the festival. Soprano Agata Zubel returns to perform works by Georges Aperghis (Greece), Luís Tinoco (Portugal) and Luciano Berio (Italy) following exciting collaborations with SCP in Seattle, at San Francisco’s Other Minds festival and at the Warsaw Autumn festival.Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's Music in Krzysztof Pastor's Ballet
2012-01-24
On January 28 at the National Opera in Warsaw it will be possible to see Krzysztof Pastor's ballet, „I przejdą deszcze…”, in which the author used Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s music.Mykietyn, Kilar, Górecki, Lutosławski, Zubel and Nowak at Sacrum Profanum 2012
2012-01-23
The programme of the festival Sacrum Profanum 2012 is already known. As is clear from the organizers’ announcement, the festival, which will take place in September in Kraków, will bring together the cream of performers from around the world, while the programme will include many pieces by composers associated with PWM.Karol Szymanowski's 1st Violin Concerto Performed by Agata Szymczewska in Bucharest
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.Nomination for the Sztorm Roku 2011 Award for Elżbieta Sikora and Anna Niewiedział
2012-01-19
Elżbieta Sikora, composer of the opera „Madame Curie”, and Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział, creator of the title role, have been nominated for the Sztorm Roku 2011 Award.Karol Szymanowski Performed by Rafał Blechacz
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.Review of the Opera "Madame Curie" in "Ruch Muzyczny"
2012-01-17
We would like to present fragments of the review in the last edition of last year’s “Ruch Muzyczny” of Elżbieta Sikora’s opera „Madame Curie, written by Anna Pęcherzewska–Hadrych."Łańcuch IX" - The Lutosławski Festival in the 99th Anniversary of the Composer's Birth
2012-01-17
From 25 January - 4 February 2012, the ninth edition of the "Łańcuch IX" festival, organized by the Witold Lutosławski Society, will take place in WarsawA Week of Polish Contemporary Music on the Q2 Antenna
2012-01-17
A block of programmes dedicated to Polish contemporary music, entitled MUZYKA NOWA: A Celebration of Contemporary Polish Music is being broadcast from yesterday until January 22 by internet radio broadcaster Q2, a department of New York broadcaster WQXR.Interview With Mikołaj Górecki
2012-01-17
Mikołaj Górecki gave radio interviews and prepared a playlist of his favorite pieces of Polish music under the auspices of the week of contemporary Polish music prepared by WQXR radio, which can be heard tomorrow at 19.00 EST.Most popular:
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.
