Recruitment for the 2020/2021 season for the 9th edition of the Sinfonia Varsovia Academy will be open until 31 May 2020. The project is aimed at students and graduates of music academies, violin, cello, oboe and horn classes with Polish citizenship who are under 26 years old as of 31 December 2020. The course starts…Continue Reading 9th edition of the Sinfonia Varsovia Academy
The work Ad Fontes, written especially for the Gdańsk carillons by Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, was premiered online on 24 April as part of the “Weekly Carillon Concerts.” The concert is available to view at www.facebook.com, as well as an interview with the composer and discussion of the carillons of Gdańsk here. This latest piece by Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, completed…Continue Reading Premiere of Katarzyna Kwiecień Długosz’s Ad Fontes
By Marek Zebrowski Over the past several years, the PMC has hosted a number of excellent young performers from Poland. Many of our friends and supporters saw their concerts at USC, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, and the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles. This year, some…Continue Reading The World Wide Web of Polish Music
The double album of the cantatas Milda and Nijoła by Stanisław Moniuszko (DUX 1640/1641) and a new recording of the String Quartet No. 3 ‘…songs are sung’ and Sonata for Two Violins by Henryk M. Górecki (Naxos 8.574110) have made Gramophone magazine’s sought-after Best New Classical Albums list for the month of May. The Moniuszko cantatas were recorded…Continue Reading Poles Featured on Gramophone “Best New Classical” List
Wiktor Łabuński (1895-1974): Complete Piano Works Wiktor Łabuński: Władco serc; Mazurek; Impromptu no. 2; Toccata; Impromptu; Rigaudon; Menuet; Reminiscence; Patterns; Six Piano Pieces; Łatwe Utwory [Four Easy Pieces]; Children at Play; Humoresque; Etude in A minor; Four Variations on a Theme by Paganini; Rustic Dance (revised version); Poem for two pianos; Nocturne for two pianos;…Continue Reading New on Acte Prealable