Lutosławski's last work of its genre, Symphony No. 4 is a synthesis of his symphonic style, generating a mood of concentration, meditation, reverie and nostalgia. Of the Symphony's two movements - ...

National Audiovisual Institute launches the Three Composers website, commemorating the work of contemporary Polish composers: Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

It wasn't always easy for Polish composer Witold Lutosławski to find his musical voice. His Symphonic Variations, which opens this third disc in a series of Lutosławski's music, was shunned by a ...

Written in 1961 as a result of Lutosławski's search for a new, individual composing language, Jeux Venitiens marked a breakthrough in his music. The inspiration came from John Cage's original idea to ...

Bachtrack - the largest Internet search engine associated with classical music concerts - ranked Witold Lutosławski the 48th most frequently performed composer of the year 2013, with a +31 growth from ...

First prize has gone to Thomas Simaku, the Albanian composer living in the U.K., for his Concert for Orchestra. Simaku received a check for 10,000 euro, and his piece will be performed at the finale ...

During its history, the Philharmonic has performed under the leadership of such individualities as Adam Kopyciński (1954-1961), Radomir Reszke (1961-1963), Włodzimierz Ormicki (1963-1965), Andrzej ...

Multi-award-winning American composer and music expert Steven Stucky passed away on 14th February 2016 at the age of 66 due to brain cancer. He was a highly-respected figure in Poland for his ...

Witold Lutosławski wrote his "String Overture" (which he initially titled "Intermezzo") in 1947, dedicating it to Mirko Očadlik. The work was first performed in Prague. This is how Andrzej Chłopecki ...

Radio broadcasts reaching 2 million listeners, 700 concerts across the world and the 22 thousand viewers of the Woven Words series are only a fraction of the attractions that filled the 2013 ...

Although Witold Lutosławski started working on his Symphony No. 1 under the Nazi occupation, he may have composed the themes of two of its movements before World War II. After the years of ban ...

Witold Lutosławski's Symphony No. 3 was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was premiered by the same orchestra - under Sir Georg Solti - on 29th September 1983, at the opening of the ...