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Saturday, 12 May 2012
On 12 May in Helsinki, there will be a gala concert with the participation of Krzysztof Penderecki to mark the 70th birthday of Arto Noras. This outstanding Finnish cellist performs, and is a great admirer of the Maestro’s music, and both are long-standing friends.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
The album with film music summing up the five years of the Film Music Festival in Krakow will be released on 15 May. The track list includes pieces presented during the previous editions of the Festival, as well as some items from this year's programme. Thanks to the cooperation between Magnetic Records and the American Varese Sarabande record ...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The Jubilee Gala of the GrandFront Competition will take place on 22 May. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary, a special jubilee GrandFront award will be given to best Polish covers of the last decade. Among the nominees is the cover of Beethoven Magazine No. 1/09, which won GrandFront 2009. Beethoven Magazine has joined the distinguished ...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
To mark the 130th anniversary of Karol Szymanowski’s birthday, the Karol Szymanowski Music Society, in collaboration with the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, announced the 1st Karol Szymanowski International Composer Competition.
Friday, 4 May 2012
The President of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, presented state decorations on the occasion of the May 3 National Holiday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Elżbieta Penderecka was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding services in promoting and propagating Polish and world culture, and for ...
Thursday, 3 May 2012
The premiere of Antonín Dvořák’s “Rusalka, prepared at Opera Nova by Kristina Wuss from Germany, inaugurated the 19th Bydgoszcz Opera Festival on Saturday. This year, the audience will see seven opera and ballet performances.
Another German, specializing in Baroque music, Simone Kermes (coloratura soprano) will ...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
“Jonny Greenwood, one of the world’s most talented rock composers and an exceptionally gifted film music composer, joined forces with the legendary Polish avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. This resulted in remarkable studio material by artists representing different worlds and generations”, we read about Krzysztof ...
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Over the 13 festival days in Warsaw there were 15 concerts, which were attended by an audience of almost 20,000! During the two weeks, the Polish capital was visited by almost two thousand artists from all over the world. In her interview for PAP, Elżbieta Penderecka said that “Poland has not welcomed so many outstanding conductors for a ...
Friday, 6 April 2012
“This year, the Beethoven Festival has achieved great results, with every second concert an event,” writes Jacek Marczyński (Rzeczpospolita, 6 April 2012).
After last year’s slump, it again became a model event of classical music, perhaps the only one to be organized in Warsaw on such a grand scale. The fate of the main ...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
The Festival’s last concert features Claude Debussy and The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. On Good Friday at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, it will be performed by the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra conducted by Sylvain Cambreling and the soloists Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano), Janina Baechle (mezzo-soprano), Agnieszka Rehlis (alto) and Andrzej ...
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