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Orphées d’Or 2013

IJKLMJNMT: DVD Madame Curie (composer: Elżbieta Sikora),
DVD Manru (composer: Ignacy Jan Paderewski)
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PQKRSML: Académie du Disque Lyrique (France)
\IJ[M: Paris

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IXTNMR: bit.do/ninateka-madamecurie

Manru (world première 1901) is the only operatic work in the
output of pianist, composer and Prime Minister of the Second Mikołaj Górecki © Mariusz Makowski/EUTERPE Music
Republic of Poland Ignacy Jan Paderewski; furthermore, it Publishing House Archives www.euterpe.pl
is the only Polish opera to have found its way onto the stage
of the Metropolitan Opera. The composer based his work on
gypsy and highland motifs. Elżbieta Sikora has presented _composition
Marie Curie as a normal human being – extraordinarily Titanic
dynamic and strong, but torn by emotions, suuering from
severe depression.
[Q]\QTML: Mikołaj Górecki
\MLPQL]MLT: Silesian Trio
[Q]]XTTXQRMS gh: Institute of Music and Dance as part of
the Collections – Commissioned Compositions program
\LM]XiLM: 36 Karol Szymanowski Music Days
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[KLJNQL: Wojciech Krasowski
QLYJRXZML: LDZ Music Festival
\IJ[M: Łódź Titanic for clarinet, horn and piano is a piece inspired by
the tragedy of the British cruise liner. In Górecki’s work, we
hear the inspiration of American popular music from the
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beginning of the 20 century, for example ragtime.
LDZ is a small festival whose aim is to promote Polish
independent music. The participants in the event’s 2 edition
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included Recognition Records founder Jacek Sienkiewicz, August
visual artist and performer Wojciech Bąkowski, and the BNNT
group directed by Konrad Smoleński, the author of the design
that represented Poland at the 55 Art Biennial in Venice.
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Polish Music at the BBC Proms

[Q]\QTMLT: Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki,
Andrzej Panufnik, Krzysztof Penderecki, Karol Szymanowski
[KLJNQL: Roger Wright
QLYJRXZML: BBC Radio
\IJ[M: Royal Albert Hall, London

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This was the krst such broad-scale presentation of Polish
music – above all, contemporary, but also Renaissance – to
take place at the BBC Proms. During last year’s edition, Polish
artists, among others the Warsaw Philharmonic under the
baton of Antoni Wit, also made their debuts.

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