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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 […]
2023-02-21 10:59:00
Coronation chicken
Judith Weir, Tarik O'Regan, and Roxanna Panufnik are among the composers with commissions for the coronation of King Charles. I just hope they know what they have let themselves in for. The future King professes an enthusiasm for classical music, but this comes with strong views. Michael Tippett's Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles was commissioned by the BBC in 1948 to celebrate the birth of the heir to the throne, and is undoubtedly the composers most tuneful work. But I am told by a major London orchestra manager who tried to programme the Suite for a concert in the royal presence that Charles hates the piece. In his autobiography the great arts visionary Sir John Drummond gave a candid view on Charles' tastes:"I have always found the Prince's lack of interest in anything to do with the arts in our time depressing, since all his opinions get so […]
2022-12-07 10:24:04
Composer Roxanna Panufnik has teamed up with performers and a gospel choir for the single, raising funds for Refugee Council
2022-10-10 14:19:21
[…] before Bach, was born on October 8th of 1585. Camille Saint-Saëns was born a day and two and a half centuries later, on October 9th of 1835. And then there were several composer who were very important to their particular nations if not necessarily on the same level as some of the names we’ve just mentioned: Komitas, the national Armenian composer; Mikalojus Čiurlionis, who occupied a similar place in Lithuanian culture; the Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik; and the American, George Gershwin, born on September 26th of 1898. And finally, Alexander von Zemlinsky, who played such an important part in the life of Schoenberg – and also was a very interesting composer -- was born on October 14th of 1871. Several eminent pianists were born during the same period, among them the American William Kapell, whose 100th anniversary was on September 20th, (he tragically died in a plane crash in 1953, […]
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