Month: October 2018

National Philharmonic season opens with Knapik premiere

On October 5, the Warsaw Philharmonic will inaugurate the 2018/2019 season celebrating the centenary of Poland’s regained independence with Witold Lutosławski’s one-minute Fanfare for Los Angeles Philharmonic (1993), the world premiere the newest work of Eugeniusz Knapik entitled Blessing Gentle Breeze, and the  Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1900) by Sergei Rachmaninov. Blessing Gentle Breeze features…Continue Reading National Philharmonic season opens with Knapik premiere

Polish Composers at Electroacoustic Bienniale in São Paulo

Several Polish composers were featured at the 2018 International Bienniale for Electroacoustic Music at Studio PANorama in São Paulo, Brazil. In particular, Elżbieta Sikora–who celebrates her 75th birthday this year–and Krzysztof Knittel were highlighted, with concerts on October 10 and 11 dedicated entirely to their music. The festival also presented concerts curated by these two pioneers of electronic music, which included works by their…Continue Reading Polish Composers at Electroacoustic Bienniale in São Paulo

Premiere of Paderewski’s “Manru” directed by Marek Weiss

Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera will kick off their 2018/2019 season with the return of Ignacy Jan Paderewski‘s opera Manru on 12 October, with new staging by director Marek Weiss. Journalist and sculptor Alfred Nossig wrote the libretto of the opera based on Kraszewski’s novel The Cottage Outside the Village [Chata za wsią]. Manru premiered…Continue Reading Premiere of Paderewski’s “Manru” directed by Marek Weiss

New Works by Zygmunt Krauze: Declaration and Francesco

Zygmunt Krauze

The premiere of Zygmunt Krauze’s The Declaration for 14 instruments, two voices and electronics took place at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow on September 12. 70 years after the establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 100 years since Poland regained its independence, Krauze comments the condition of contemporary societies in his latest work….Continue Reading New Works by Zygmunt Krauze: Declaration and Francesco

Weinberg By Roth and Uhlig

Violinist Linus Roth and pianist Florian Uhlig toured Europe from October 15 – 28 performing Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, Op. 47, Brahms’s D minor Sonata, Op. 108, and Mieczysław Weinberg’s Sonata No.3, Op. 37. An interview with Linus Roth (who was the first artists to record all violin and piano sonatas of Weinberg), talking about and performing…Continue Reading Weinberg By Roth and Uhlig