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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Violinist Agata Szymczewska, represented by our Association will give her first concert this year in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Together with the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Antoni Wit, the artist will perform one of the greatest works of Polish violin literature – Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 Op. 61. ...
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
The legendary Les Arts Florissants will perform on 9 January at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall. This will be the only performance of this ensemble in Poland. “This news will electrify early music fans, and the ensemble that has made a true revolution over 30 years should be recommended to others,” writes Jacek Marczyński in ...
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Marek Dusza (Rzeczpospolita, 27 December 2011) summarizes jazz events of 2011. He considers the album “Struny na ziemi” [Strings in the Earth] by Włodek Pawlik, “who has a feel for Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s poetry” as the most important event. “This album can be compared to Grammy-awarded productions of Herbie ...
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
On 23 December, Gazeta Wyborcza published a conversation with Marc Minkowski, a conductor in the new production of Stanisław Moniuszko’s “Halka” at the National Opera in Warsaw. The production is directed by Natalia Korczakowska and the title role sung by Wioletta Chodowicz. Anna S. Dębowska talks to the French conductor about ...
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
The applications for the 9th International Competition of Musical Personalities “Tansman 2012”, which will be held in Łódź next November, can be sent until September 2012. Artists will compete for the Grand Prix of 12,000 euros.
The competition is organized every two years for the purpose of promoting young , ...
Saturday, 24 December 2011
This probably most famous Christmas carol is sung every year by thousands of people. Jacek Marczyński recalls the origin of “Silent Night” and its composer.
Franz Xaver Gruber considered “Silent Night”, which he wrote for Christmas Eve service, to be just a simple melody. (…) “Silent Night” is the ...
Monday, 19 December 2011
Last Monday (12 December 2011) at the Shoreditch Church in London, Agata Szymczewska and the London Contemporary Orchestra gave the premiere of Martin Suckling’ Violin concerto, “De sol y grana”. The piece was inspired by Antonio Machado’s poem. The poet describes his delight with soap bubbles, their movement, gleaming in ...
Friday, 16 December 2011
Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski has been nominated for this year’s Golden Globe award in the best Original Score category. Nominations for the Golden Globes, which are good at predicting likely nominees for the Academy Awards, were announced on Thursday. This year, Korzeniowski will contend for the Golden Globe statuette with his ...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Mischa Maisky will perform at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall on 28 February 2012 at 7:00 pm. He will be accompanied by the Kremerata Baltica, an orchestra established in 1997 by the outstanding Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer.
Mischa Maisky was born in Riga, Latvia. In 1966, he became a prizewinner of the famous Pyotr Tchaikovsky Competition ...
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
A new album in the series of “Unknown Operas”, published as part of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, will come out in January. Gaetano Donizetti’s “Maria Padilla” will be the fourth opera (after Cherubini’s “Lodoïska”, Spohr’s “Der Berggeist” and Weber’s ...
