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Polish composer (1933–2010)
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2024-02-27 09:59:00
Classical music must not cease from exploration
[…] the last reverberation in the hall has gone. Scores are impermanent as they depend on interpretation, while interpretation itself is impermanent and driven by fashion. Recordings are impermanent as they depend on the replay system. Concert halls are impermanent - each year brings a new, more expensive, even better, supposedly acoustic perfect bricks and mortar masterpiece. As the very wise Kaikhosru Sorabji told us, "Talk about immortal masterpieces is rather ridiculous": whatever happened to John Tavener's The Protecting Veil and Henryk Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs?Arts funding is also impermanent, a reality that the classical industry great and good refuse to acknowledge. The supply of classical music is also impermanent as again, despite the denial of industry experts, ultimately supply must balance with demand. And, very importantly, the classical audience is impermanent - the new young audience that classical music has been chasing for two decades is no longer a new young audience. To rejuvenate itself classical music needs […]
2023-12-04 15:01:32
Ernst Toch and more, 2023
[…] (from 1914 to 1924) to complete. During that time, he managed to complete two more symphonies, nos. 5 and 6. Here’s the Seventh, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. While Sibelius may not be one of our favorites, Olivier Messiaen, born on December 10th of 1908, clearly is. We’ve written about him on several occasions and will get back to the great French master soon. Also this week: Henryk Górecki, a Polish composer whose minimalist symphonies became very popular with audiences worldwide, born on December 6th of 1933, and César Franck, the composer of one of the best violin sonatas, on December 10th of 1822.
2023-09-25 12:42:00
Joy & Devotion, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's festival of Polish Sacred Music returns to St Martin in the Fields
Joy & Devotion, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's festival of Polish Sacred Music under the artistic directorship of composer Paweł Łukaszewski, returns to St Martin in the Fields from 7 to 11 November 2023 with Polish music from 16th century through to the present day.Things kick off with the Brabant Ensemble, conductor Stephen Rice, in music by Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665-1734) and Mikołaj Zieleński (1560-1620) alongside music by contemporary Polish composers. Then the Carice Singers, conductor George Parris, present music devoted to the Virgin Mary by Andrzej Panufnik, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki alongside works by Roman Padlewski, who died in the Warsaw Uprising whilst fighting the Second World War, Marian Sawa (1937-2005), and contemporary composers Aldona Nawrocka and Tomasz Soczek.Passion and Resurrection features the Epiphoni Consort, conductor Tim Reader, in a concert celebrating the passion and resurrection of Christ including two works by Paweł Łukaszewski, plus music by Romuald Twardowski (born 1930), Andrzej Koszewski (1922-2015), a composer who drew from folk music […]
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