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The National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute has a unique collection of scores.

During the ‘Music Regained’ concert on the occasion of the 78^th anniversary of the end of World War II, on the 8^th of May, 2023 at 7.00 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio, the Warsaw premiere of Artur Malawski's music for the film Robinson Warszawski will be performed by the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw under the direction of Michał Klauza, Roman Palester's music for the film City Untamed will also be performed.

Concert will be recorded and available on the website https://ninateka.pl/ 

Tickets: https://bit.ly/41PYtzV 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 62^nd edition of the Music Festival in Łańcut will take place on May 6 - June 4, 2023. The concerts are planned both in spaces of Łańcut Castle Museum and in the Artur Malawski Podkarpacie Philharmonic in Rzeszów.

Artists from all over the world will perform during 13 events as part of this prestigious undertaking, e.g. baritone Artur Ruciński, American tenor Charles Castronovo, French ensemble La Chapelle Harmonique, The Nazareth College Chamber Singers, renowned Berlin Piano Trio, Romanian pianist Mihai Diaconescu.

Detailed programme: https://festiwallancut.pl/kategoria-produktu/repertuar/2023/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Events organized as part of the ‘Meeting with the Master’ are an opportunity to get to know violinist Mariusz Patyra in various circumstances and roles - as a teacher and virtuoso, during solo and orchestral playing workshops, in the practice room and on the stage.

The ‘Meeting with the Master’ events will take place on May 6-11, 2023 in the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music in Łódź (ul. Żubardzka 2a) and in the Palace of the Academy of Music in Łódź (ul. Gdańska 32). Free entrance.

Schedule of the events: https://www.amuz.lodz.pl/pl/koncerty-i-wydarzenia-zapowiedzi/maj-2023 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In 2018, Tomasz Raff premiered Mieczysław Weinberg's song cycles Triptych Op. 99 and Profile Op. 88 at the August-Kestner-Museum in Hanover. In May 2023, after 5 years of historical turmoil in the world, the artist returns to Germany to perform an extended Weinberg programme. The concerts will take place on the 7^th of May at 5 p.m.  in the innovative co-working space ‘Die Rampe – Hannover’ and on the 6^th of May 6 at 7.45 p.m. in Göttingen, in the Clavier-Salon run by Prof. Gerrit Zitterbart.

Both recitals will be performed by Tomasz Raff in a duet with pianist Monika Kolasińska. The intimate atmosphere of the recitals and the important message contained in the raw, sparing form of Mieczysław Weinberg's music will be enriched by video-art visualizations by Zuzanna Grzegorowska.

Although Wajnberg composed his last songs about 40 years ago, they have become alarmingly relevant now, when the ghosts of the almost forgotten wartime past have awakened again.

Additional information: https://iam.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The programme of the Hashtag Ensemble’s concert on the 6^th of May, 2023 at 4 p.m. at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews consists of four works by American composer Judd Greenstein, Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva, Israeli composer Aviy Kopelman and Polish composer Wojciech Błażejczyk.

The theme of Angels of Peace by Wojciech Błażejczyk is the horror of the war in Donbas. The title refers to the medal, a traditional gift given at the Vatican to heads of state. In 2015, Vladimir Putin received him from the hands of the Pope. In this piece, Błażejczyk mockingly recites fragments of Putin's ‘peace’ speeches into the trumpet (‘We will always be on the side of the forces of peace with those who choose the path of equal partnership, who deny war as contrary to the very essence of life and human nature’). The piece evolves into a thrilling finale.

More information: https://polin.pl/pl/phantom-peace-koncert-hashtag-ensemble