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• Polish Music ‘Muzyka Nowa’, WQXR ★★★☆☆
If you tune into New York’s WQXR Q2 this week, you’ll find yourself in the midst of a week-long celebration of Chinese music, ‘The Year of the Dragon’. Bringing new music to its audiences is WQXR Q2’s...
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• New Polish CDs from Bôłt
Thanks to the eagle eye of The Rambler – thanks, Tim! – I’ve just been reading an article uploaded by Agata Pyzik on her blogsite nuitssansnuit on 21 May 2012. Published in a shorter version a year ago...
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• A Brush with Lutosławski
I’ve just been to Warsaw to celebrate Lutosławski’s centenary. I’ve returned with commemorative books, CDs, a pencil, a medal and a brush, with the promise of an IoS app to follow. More importantly,...
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• 5th Festival of Premieres, Katowice
Festiwal Prawykonań (Festival of Premieres) is a biennial celebration of new pieces by Polish composers of all generations. This year’s event runs over the last weekend of next month, 26-28 April 2013...
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• Polish commissions for 2013-14
In an age when transparency in government agencies is increasingly demanded, I wonder how many British or other national arts organisations can rival the almost brutal way in which commission...
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• New Book: Polish Music since 1945
A new collection of essays on post-war Polish music has just been published by Musica Iagellonica in Kraków. It is edited by Eva Mantzourani, who convened a conference four years ago, at the...
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• New CD Appreciation (Krauze/Bôłt)
The Polish independent CD label, Bôłt Records, is one of the most inventive both inside and outside Poland. Not only has it reissued recordings of key experimental works from the 1960s and 1970s but...
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• ‘onpolishmusic’ is back!
Thanks to all who continue to visit onpolishmusic! If you’ve been wondering why the site has been silent since December 2013 it’s because I have been otherwise preoccupied with planning and then...
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• ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Chronicle 2014
The days are long gone when the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Sound Chronicle contained only Polish repertoire. The seven CDs of recordings from last year’s 57th festival have just been delivered by my postie and I...
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• 6th Festival of Premieres, Katowice
Last November, the 21st to be exact, I visited the new and magnificent home in Katowice of NOSPR, the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra. The occasion was a performance of Shostakovich’s Fifth...
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