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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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Serocki: A Severe Case of Neglect
If by its deeds a country disposes of or ignores its heritage, it can hardly expect that heritage to be known or appreciated abroad. And when composers die, it’s a truism that their music often slips...
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• 5 Archival Polish Music Videos
Five videos of Polish music have newly been made available online. They date from 1968-75 and are all of performances at the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw during the annual ‘Warsaw Autumn’ festival....
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• New Website for Serocki
http://www.serocki.polmic.pl The uploading of a website devoted to the life and music of Kazimierz Serocki is hugely to be welcomed. Serocki was one of the giants of post-war Polish music – he stood...
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• Grave matters
I’m catching up on Polish arrears, having dallied since my visit to Warsaw last month by staying in London to see Covent Garden’s Ring cycle (frankly, I might just as well have listened to it on the...
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• Polish ‘Awangarda’ CDs
For years, I’ve been bewailing the lack of CD representation of post-war Polish composers other than ‘the big three’. And there are still notable gaps, especially in the coverage of the music of...
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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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• Toasting Pianophonie
One of the highlights of this year’s Warsaw Autumn was the performance of Kazimierz Serocki’s Pianophonie (1976-78) for piano, electronics and orchestra at the closing concert two days ago. I was...
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• Letters from 1950
Reproduced here for the first time is a letter dated 21 April 1950. It is from Andrzej Panufnik, who expresses his desire to write a Revolutionary Symphony. Not heard of this work before? That’s not...
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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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