Posts List
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2016
November
• 3.11.16 Blecharz, Stańczyk & ‘Górecki’ at Huddersfield
• 2.11.16 Górecki UK premiere, Liverpool, 3.11.16
• 2.11.16 Two Górecki premieres, PR2, 3.11.16
October
• 31.10.16 New CD Notes (Bacewicz/Chandos, Friedman & Różycki/Hyperion, Kwieciński/Bôłt) ☛ CDs Complete String Quartets (Bacewicz), Piano Quintets (Friedman & Różycki), Umbrae (Kwieciński)
April
• 30.04.16 Katowice: Skrowaczewski takes a bow
• 30.04.16 Katowice: Artists’ Memorial Walkway
• 30.04.16 Katowice: Museum of History
• 29.04.16 Katowice: New-Old Academy of Music
• 20.04.16 ‘Warsaw Autumn’ 2016 news
• 15.04.16 Meakultura ‘Kropka’ Awards
• 14.04.16 Lutosławski’s ‘didlumdi, didlumdaj’
March
• 30.03.16 Szymanowski Letters in English, vol.1
• 25.03.16 In His Element Górecki
February
• 15.02.16 Steven Stucky (1949-2016)
• 12.02.16 Bôłt & 58th ‘Warsaw Autumn’ CDs
January
• 29.01.16 When was Różycki born?
• 29.01.16 New CD Note (Różycki/Hyperion) ☛ CD: Różycki Piano Concertos
• 27.01.16 Górecki Goodies Nonesuch
• 25.01.16 A Discarded Lutosławski Page
• 22.01.16 New CD Notes (Gorecki/Nonesuch) ☛ CD: Introductory Essay ☛ CD: Symphony 4
• 15.01.16 Four Videos on Górecki Symphony 4
2015
December
• 21.12.15 Dwurnik on the Pendereckis
• 12.12.15 Zakopane crib
November
• 12.11.15 Górecki in wooden covers
October
• 31.10.15 PWM 70 Supplement
• 27.10.15 Górecki World Premiere, Kraków
• 11.10.15 Unsound = Satanic? Unsound Festival 2015
• 7.10.15 Górecki: Total Immersion (3 October 2015) ☛ programme book
September
• 27.09.15 Szmytka and Zubel at Huddersfield
• 26.09.15 Górecki/BBC SO: One Week To Go
July
• 31.07.15 Warsaw Autumn 2015: DYNAMISTATYKA
• 17.07.15 News from Nonesuch Górecki
June
• 14.06.15 Panufnik, Penderecki, Zubel
May
• 25.05.15 Woodworm Don’t Like Your Music Grażyna Bacewicz
• 16.05.15 Król Roger: Live Transmission 16.05.15 ☛ article: An Enigmatic Figure
• 11.05.15 BBC R3: Bacewicz is COTW (25-29.05)
April
• 10.04.15 6th Festival of Premieres, Katowice
• 10.04.15 Król Roger: Three Weeks To Go
• 7.04.15 Panufnik Revised: 2. Nocturne & Lullaby ☛ article: Nocturne & Lullaby
March
• 9.03.15 Panufnik Revised: 1. Tragic Overture ☛ article: Tragic Overture
• 2.03.15 New CD Note (Szymański & Mykietyn/Hyperion) ☛ CD: String Quartets
• 1.03.15 Wartime Warsaw Recollections
February
• 26.02.15 ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Chronicle 2014
January
• 20.01.15 Total Immersion: Henryk Górecki
• 2.01.15 WL100/1-81: The Complete List
• 1.01.15 WL100/81: Roussel 3, Lutosławski 3
2014
December
• 31.12.14 WL100/80: Lutosławski’s Chair
• 30.12.14 WL100/79: Jeux vénitiens conducting score
• 29.12.14 WL100/78: Jeux vénitiens pitch designs
• 28.12.14 WL100/77: Lutosławski’s French Bookmarks
• 27.12.14 WL100/76: Lutosławski Learns To Drive
• 26.12.14 WL100/75: Lutosławski’s Bookshelves
• 25.12.14 WL100/74: Lutosławski Rules!
• 24.12.14 WL100/73: Lutosławski’s Batons
• 23.12.14 WL100/72: Lutosławski’s Desk
• 21.12.14 Panufnik: One Song or Three? ☛ article: Panufnik’s 3 Songs for the PZPR
• 17.12.14 Polish Composer Doodles Revealed
• 13.12.14 Polish Composer Doodle no.2
• 12.12.14 Polish Composer Doodle no.1
• 7.12.14 Reviews in translation (Górecki-Gibbons)
• 6.12.14 Ławka Góreckiego (Górecki’s Bench)
November
• 26.11.14 Nugs and Bling: Three Silesian Graves Górecki, Kilar, Cybulski
• 19.11.14 Collegium Maius, Kraków
• 16.11.14 Panufnik’s ‘Silesian Hammers’
• 11.11.14 Commemorating Composers
• 3.11.14 New CD Note (Szymanowski vol.3/Chandos) ☛ CD: Szymanowski: Symphonies 1 & 3
October
• 31.10.14 Panufnik’s Escape (2) ☛ article: Scarlett’s Memoir
• 29.10.14 Panufnik’s Escape (1) ☛ article: Berne Legation Memo
• 20.10.14 Letters from 1950 Panufnik, Lutosławski and others ☛ article: File 750
• 8.10.14 The Indefatigable William Hughes Szymanowski in translation
• 8.10.14 Sustained Glissando
• 1.10.14 The Spoils of Warsaw recent books and CDs
September
• 30.09.14 Signposting Panufnik
• 30.09.14 Panufnik’s Mushrooms (1991)
• 29.09.14 Toasting Pianophonie Serocki
• 28.09.14 New Sikorski and Panufnik websites
• 4.09.14 Włodzimierz Kotoński (1925-2014)
August
• 16.08.14 Panufnik in Warsaw (Aug-Sept)
• 15.08.14 Jan Ekier (1913-2014)
June
• 6.06.14 Bogusław Schaeffer: b. 6 June 1929
May
• 22.05.14 MoMA on Polish Music
• 22.05.14 Bohdan Mazurek (1937-2014)
• 16.05.14 New Website for Panufnik
• 15.05.14 Gloria Artis, 12.04.14
• 12.05.14 Panufnik Centenary (200th post)
• 12.05.14 Górecki: Kyrie**
• 12.05.14 NINATEKA: WL, KP & HMG online audio resource
• 7.05.14 Poles in Presteigne
• 6.05.15 New CD Note (Zubel/Kairos) ☛ CD: Agata Zubel: Not I +
• 5.05.14 Górecki: Symphony 4** ☛ programme note: Tansman, Stravinsky, Górecki
• 3.05.14 New CD Note (Scharwenka/Chandos) ☛ CD: Scharwenka: Complete Piano Concertos
• 3.05.14 New CD Appreciation (Krauze/Bôłt) ☛ CD: Krauze: Instrumental Concertos
• 3.05.14 ‘onpolishmusic’ is back!
‘onpolishmusic’ posts were suspended December 2013 – April 2014. The author was on an 1800-km walk across France following in the footsteps of his great-great-great-grandfather who, in January-April 1814, during the Napoleonic wars, walked from the Belgian border to his freedom in Bordeaux in a zig-zag path Reims-Laon-Mauberge-Cambrai-Orléans-Tours-Clermont Ferrand and Limoges. I hope readers will excuse the absence of posts during this period in 2014.
2013
November
• 27.11.13 WL100/71: Lissa on Concerto for Orchestra
• 26.11.13 WL100/70: Concerto for Orchestra, **26.11.54
• 21.11.13 BBC R3 Polska!: Brochure & Previews
• 20.11.13 Penderecki Festival, 17-23 November 2013
• 19.11.13 BBC R3 ‘Polska!’: 19 November 1993
• 18.11.13 WL100/69: Livre, **18 November 1968
• 17.11.13 New Book: Polish Music since 1945
• 15.11.13 WL100/68: Nie oczekuję dziś nikogo Derwid
• 13.11.13 Tomasz Sikorski, d.13 November 1988
• 12.11.13 Górecki memento/2: photo 1997
• 11.11.13 WL100/67: Notebook, 11 November 1961 on conducting
• 9.11.13 WL100/66: Overture, **9 November 1949
October
• 27.10.13 Górecki: Refren, **27 October 1965
• 26.10.13 WL100/65: Mr and Mrs Lutosławscy in Prague
• 24.10.13 WL100/64: Notebook, 24 October 1959 Webern
• 23.10.13 WQXR Q2: A new Polish marathon
• 22.10.13 On music and the Jagiellonians The Musical Heritage of the Jagiellonian Era
• 22.10.13 New ‘Eastern European Studies’ series The Musical Culture of Silesia before 1742
• 22.10.13 WL100/63: Mi-parti, **22 October 1976
• 19.10.13 WL100/62: Notebook, 19 October 1960 Pierre Schaeffer and objet sonore
• 15.10.13 WL100/61: Symphonic Variations
• 14.10.13 WL100/60: Cello Concerto, **14 October 1970
• 8.10.13 Górecki memento/1: photo 2002
• 6.10.13 WL100/59: Lutosławski in Moscow (1951)
• 4.10.13 Recollecting Górecki
• 3.10.13 Polish ‘Awantgarda’ CDs (Baird), Kotoński, Penderecki, Serocki
September
• 16.09.13 WL100/58: ‘old’ Derwid CDs
• 15.09.13 WL100/57: ‘el Derwid’ CD
• 13.09.13 New Górecki sculpture in Katowice
• 6.09.13 WL100/56: Los Angeles (1985) reposting of Lutosławski in Los Angeles (1985) (2.09.11)
• 5.09.13 WL100/55: Death of Lutosławski’s Father
• 4.09.13 Lutosławski Research Conference poster
• 3.09.13 WL100/54: Lutosławski and Panufnik (1945)
• 2.09.13 WL100/53: Trio, **2 September 1945
August
• 29.08.13 Sto lat! Jan Ekier (and Lutosławski)
• 27.08.13 WL100/52: His Last BBC Prom
• 26.08.13 WL100/51: July Garland (1949) – the music
• 21.08.13 WL100/50: Volcano in Łowicz (1949) Gałczyński
• 20.08.13 WL100/49: 22 July 1949 and a letter July Garland
• 19.08.13 WL100/48: 22 July 1944 and after Lutosławski’s medals
• 19.08.13 New CD Note (Szymanowski vol.2/Chandos) ☛ CD: Szymanowski: Stabat Mater + Harnasie
• 18.08.13 WL100/47: Folk Melodies, **22 July 1946
• 17.08.13 WL100/46: Notebook June-July
June
• 25.06.13 WL100/45: Trois poèmes, UK*25 June 1969 ☛ article: A Deep Resonance
• 20.06.13 WL100/44: Paroles tissées, **20 June 1965
• 17.06.13 Lutosławski Report (Warsaw, 2013)
• 17.06.13 WL100/43: Variations, **17 June 1939
• 13.06.13 Lutosławski Cello Concerto: more videos
• 12.06.13 WL100/42: 33 ‘Derwid’ songs published
• 7.06.13 Lutosławski+ in Paris, 7.06.13
May
• 29.05.13 Research grants (Polish music) for 2013-14
• 29.05.13 Polish commissions for 2013-14
• 29.05.13 New CD of Górecki Church Songs
• 23.05.13 WL100/41: Symphony 4 (Polish premiere)
• 22.05.13 WL100/40: London Sinfonietta, 22 May 1993
• 18.05.13 WL100/39: Polar Music Prize, 18 May 1993
• 9.05.13 WL100/38: Les dessins de Michaux
• 9.05.13 WL100/37: Trois poèmes, **9 May 1963
• 8.05.13 WL100/36: Le songe de Desnos (1938)
• 4.05.13 WL100/35: Lutosławski in Riga
April
• 24.04.13 WL100/34: Jeux vénitiens, **24 April 1961
• 18.04.13 Polish Music at the 2013 BBC Proms ☛ article: A Polish Awakening
• 13.04.13 WL100/33: Zanussi documentary (complete)
• 12.04.13 WL100/32: Les espaces, **12 April 1978
• 9.04.13 WL100/31: Notebook, 9 April 1969 on conducting (and Boulez)
• 7.04.13 WL100/30: Notebook, 7 April 1960 on Cage
• 6.04.13 WL100/29: Notebook, 6 April 1961 on ‘poor caricatures’
• 4.04.13 Lutosławski @sacrum+profanum, 22.09.13
• 4.04.13 Gramophone blogs on Lutosławski
• 4.04.13 New CD Note (Dobrzyński/Chandos) ☛ CD: Dobrzyński: Symphony 2 +
• 3.04.13 WL100/28: Jazz Conversations (Lutosphere)
• 2.04.13 New CD Note (Żeleński & Zarzycki/Hyperion) ☛ CD: Żeleński & Zarzycki: piano concertos
March
• 26.03.13 Zubel Zings! Philharmonia ‘Woven Words’
• 21.03.13 5th Festival of Premieres, Katowice
• 19.03.13 WL100/27: Notebook, 19 March 1961 on rain and Jeux vénitiens
• 18.03.13 RSQ +1 Royal String Quartet, Stanisława Celińska, Adam Baldych
• 13.03.13 WL100/26: Notebook, 13 March 1961 (2) on electronic music
• 13.03.13 WL100/25: Notebook, 13 March 1961 (1) on feeling in music
• 12.03.13 New app: Lutosławski Guide to Warsaw
• 11.03.13 WL100/24: Notebook, 11 March 1961 on new instruments (and Jeux vénitiens)
• 9.03.13 WL100/23: 9-10 March 1957 speech to Polish Composers’ Union
• 9.03.13 WL100/22: Chain 1, figs 40-41
• 1.03.13 New CD Note (Penderecki & Lutosławski/Hyperion) ☛ CD: String Quartets
February
• 21.02.13 New CD Note (Lutosławski vol.5/Chandos) ☛ CD: Lutosławski: Symphony 1 +
• 17.02.13 Zarębski’s Piano Quintet on PR ‘Trybunał’
• 16.02.13 WL100/21: Funeral and Homily, 16.02.94
• 15.02.13 WL100/20: Dance Preludes, **15 February 1955
• 12.02.13 WL100/19: ‘Lutosławski live’, 12-19.02.93
• 12.02.13 WL100/18: Notebook, 12 February 1961 on his current music
• 7.02.13 Different and Indifferent Lutosławski Cello Concerto
• 6.02.13 WL100/17: Notebook, 6 February 1959 as a parachutist
• 2.02.13 WL100/16: Philharmonia Festival, 2-12.02.89
• 1.02.13 A Brush with Lutosławski Centenary celebrations in Warsaw
January
• 26.01.13 WL100/15: Thank-you note, 26 January 1993
• 22.01.13 WL100/14: Lutosławski at Polish Radio new archival website
• 21.01.13 Lutosławski Centenary Week in Poland
• 20.01.13 Gardner/BBC SO top Polish Radio poll Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra
• 19.01.13 WL100/13: In Conversation with Zanussi
• 17.01.13 WL100/12: ‘Breaking Chains’, BBC 1997
• 16.01.13 WL100/11: ‘The Hidden Composer’ Witold Lutosławski and Polish Radio
• 13.01.13 WL100/10: ‘Breaking Chains’, GSMD 1997
• 12.01.13 WL100/9: Lutosławski’s Carpet
• 12.01.13 Lutosławski issue of MWM
• 11.01.13 William Hughes completes his Szymanowski
• 10.01.13 WL100/8: Musique funèbre, 10 January 1958
• 8.01.13 Lutosławski: Ein Leben in der Musik
• 5.01.13 WL100/7: Lutosławski info online
• 3.01.13 WL100/6: Epitaph, **3 January 1980
• 2.01.13 WL100/5: Notebook, 2 January 1963 on Cymer the carpenter
• 1.01.13 New CD Note (Szymanowski/Chandos) ☛ CD: Szymanowski: Symphonies 2 & 4
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2012
December
• 31.12.12 WL100/4: Lutosławski Likenesses
• 28.12.12 Lutosławski in the January pipeline
• 20.12.12 WL100/3: Lutosławski in Belfast (gallery)
• 18.12.12 WL100/2: Lutosławski in Belfast (DMus)
• 17.12.12 WL100/1: Lutosławski in Belfast
• 17.12.12 WL100
• 14.12.12 Lutosławski: A Christmas Carol
• 8.12.12 Poles launch ‘100/100 Lutosławski’
• 3.12.12 New CD Note (Zarębski & Żeleński/Hyperion) ☛ CD: Zarębski & Żeleński: chamber music
November
• 27.11.12 Jeux vénitiens: R3’s 50th Modern Classic
• 15.11.12 Jazz & Experimental Music from Poland
• 14.11.12 Not Forgetting Noskowski
• 14.11.12 Ż-z-z Żeleński, Zarębski, Zarzycki
• 13.11.12 New Article (Lutosławski’s Parallel Lives) ☛ article: Parallel Lives of a Captive Muse
• 13.11.12 Lutosławski Centenary 2013: Philharmonia
• 12.11.12 Grave matters Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw
• 4.11.12 New CD Note (Lutosławski vol.4/Chandos) ☛ CD: Lutosławski: Symphony 2, Cello Concerto +
• 3.11.12 Prix Europa for ‘Warsaw Variations’ Lutosławski, Panufnik
October
• 16.10.12 New Website for Serocki
• 15.10.12 BBC R3 NGAs 2012: A Third Polish Quartet
• 14.10.12 History of Music in Poland: Romanticism book review
• 10.10.12 Stokowski on Chopin
• 8.10.12 BBC Scottish SO’s ‘Muzyka Polska’ Lutosławski, Szymanowski, Karłowicz, Szymański +
• 7.10.12 New Web Page for Marek Stachowski
• 6.10.12 Do Historians Hate Music?
September
• 30.09.12 New Polish Pantheon in Kraków
• 29.09.12 New CD Note (Górecki/Hyperion) ☛ CD: Górecki: String Quartets
• 26.09.12 Remembering Andrzej Chłopecki
• 17.09.12 New CD Note (Górecki/Decca) ☛ CD: Górecki: Miserere +
• 3.09.12 Proof-reading bloopers (BBC Music Mag)
August
• 28.08.12 5 Archival Polish Music Videos Baird, Lutosławski, Penderecki, Serocki
• 18.08.12 More Szymanowski from Doctor Hughes
July
• 21.07.12 Yours for only £1131/$1767 … Bacewicz book and film
• 17.07.12 Zanussi, Wajda and Michniewski on Kilar Polish film
• 17.07.12 Kilar at 80
June
• 28.06.12 The Hand of Wall Street (Bankers) Linke
• 27.06.12 Górecki’s ‘Ad Matrem’ premiere on video
May
• 25.05.12 New Polish CDs from Bôłt
• 13.05.12 More Szymanowski from Doctor Hughes
April
• 6.04.12 Szymanowski’s Funerals
March
• 28.03.12 When did Szymanowski die?
• 28.03.12 The Chronicles of Doctor Hughes Szymanowski
• 16.03.12 Polish Radio Choir axed
• 3.03.12 Serocki: A Severe Case of Neglect
• 1.03.12 Polish Radio Choir to be liquidated?
February
• 28.02.12 Zarębski’s Piano Quintet
• 24.02.12 Early Music Show: Polish playlist
• 15.02.12 Lunch on the grass Katowice
• 14.02.12 New Concert Hall for Katowice
• 10.02.12 Baroque Rocks Polish music, Jarzębski, Szarzyński
• 6.02.12 Altstaedt plays Lutosławski
• 2.02.12 R.I.P. Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)
• 1.02.12 Iwaszkiewicz on Górecki
January
• 28.01.12 A Polish Quintet Ciupiński, Jacaszek, Ryczek, Wołek, Zubel
• 27.01.12 Happy 99th, Luto (2 days late!)
• 25.01.12 Polish Music ‘Muzyka Nowa’, WQXR Q2 ★★★☆☆ radio festival review
• 16.01.12 Polish Music Festival on WQXR Q2
• 3.01.12 New CD Note (Lutosławski vol.3/Chandos) ☛ CD: Lutosławski: Symphony 4, Piano Concerto +
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2011
December
• 23.12.11 Carols in the Raw
• 13.12.11 The Polish Poet’s Red Bus – in English! Jacek Kaczmarski
• 13.12.11 Znak czasu (A Sign of the Times) Solidarity/Martial Law 1981
• 7.12.11 The Poet and His Red Bus (1981) Jacek Kaczmarski
• 6.12.11 Edward Gardner on Lutosławski’s Symphony 4
• 6.12.11 On What Would Have Been His 78th Birthday Górecki
• 6.12.11 The Painter and his Bus (1961) Bronisław Wojciech Linke
• 5.12.11 ‘The Pianist’ (b. 5.12.1911) and his Red Bus Władysław Szpilman
• 4.12.11 Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto on YouTube concert review
November
• 28.11.11 Side by Side with Rumi (and Szymanowski)
• 22.11.11 Oh, do not sleep, friend Rumi/Szymanowski
• 17.11.11 A Last Amen for Górecki
• 16.11.11 Recalling Górecki: Two Radio Tributes
• 14.11.11 Polish Orchestra Named After Górecki
• 13.11.11 … and a Bench for Tuwim too
• 12.11.11 Song of Joy and Rhythm Górecki/Tuwim
• 11.11.11 Polish Independence Day
• 9.11.11 On Tour with Górecki
October
• 31.10.11 A Conversation with Henryk Górecki
September
• 20.09.11 A Distant Echo of God’s Word Polish Radio Choir/Górecki
• 16.09.11 Lutosławski and Jeux vénitiens
• 10.09.11 Lutosławski and Paganini
• 2.09.11 Lutosławski in Los Angeles (1985)
August
• 23.08.11 The Cello in Art (5) – Jacek Malczewski
• 12.08.11 Lutosławski and Birdsong
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