Lutosławski Year 2013 Report

LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 REPORT Introduction Letter from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Mr Bogdan Zdrojewski 5 Introduction Letter from the Director of the Institute of Music and Dance Mr Andrzej Kosowski 7 Introduction Letter from the Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Mr Paweł Potoroczyn 9 Lutosławski Year in numbers 10 Lutosławski Year partners 76

SELECTED EVENTS SELECTED EVENTS IN ABROAD: POLAND: International inauguration of the Lutosławski Year 14 Programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage 36 Woven Words series 16 Walking Guide to Lutosławski’s Warsaw 38 Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton Lutosławski 1913–2013 book album 39 of Sir Simon Rattle 20 PostSłowie by Andrzej Chłopecki 40 Yo-Yo Ma & Chicago Symphony Orchestra 21 10th Chain Festival 41 BBC Proms 22 Inauguration of the Witold Lutosławski Year in Poland 42 Musikfest Berlin 23 Genius Lutos – social integration project 44 LutoScratch installation 24 International Composition Competition 46 Quay Brothers animation – Ruhrtriennale 26 9th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition 48 Krystian Zimerman concerts 28 Choreographies to Lutosławski’s music 50 Musical marathons on Q2 music radio 30 Lutosławski for children 52 Muzyka Polska – Chandos Records 31 9th International Music Festival Chopin and his Europe 54 Lutosławski: The Symphonies – Sony Classical 2 Krystian Zimerman concert at the Warsaw Autumn 56 Souvenirs of the Lutosławski Year 33 Commemorative plaque unveiled at a Warsaw school 58 Establishment of new youth orchestras 59 Warsaw concert of the Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen 60 New publications of Witold Lutosławski’s music 62 New CDs with Lutosławski’s music 64 Lutosławski on Polish Radio 66 Threecomposers.pl website 68 The Blue Notebook documentary 70 Derwid rejuvenated 73 Lutosławski and visual arts 74 Bogdan Zdrojewski Minister of Culture and National Heritage

On 7 December 2012, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution proclaiming 2013 the Witold Luto- sławski Year, justifying its decision as follows: “His works have been part of the repertoire of all of the world’s major concert halls, discovering new realms of beauty and unveiling hitherto unknown ways of understanding and seeing the world around us. He was part of the grand European tradition spanning from Beethoven and Chopin to Debussy and Bartók; he was also a patriot in his public activities and a citizen of the world in his artistic life.”

Thanks to the Minister of Culture and National Heritage’s special programme, Lutosławski 2013 – Promise, an impressive series of over a thousand artistic, scientific, educational, documentary and popularising events were prepared for the whole year, all linked to the person and oeuvre of Witold Lutosławski in the context of 20th-century music, history and culture. These events were held in many cities around Poland, Europe and the world, and were targe- ted at both sophisticated music lovers and children and teenagers.

In association with the Witold Lutosławski Society, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the National Audiovisual Institute, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute and the Polish Radio, it was possible to carry out an extensive and international programme of concerts, educational activities and publications. The tangible effects of this anniversary, in the form of books, periodicals, trans- lations, radio, television and CD/DVD programmes and recordings as well as special web por- tals and websites, guarantee that the music and person of Lutosławski will stay with us for a long time to come.

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to all the organisers and partners, both Polish and international, for such a diverse and interesting year filled with so much musical excitement.

4 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 5 Andrzej Kosowski Director of the Institute of Music and Dance Representative of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for the Lutosławski Year

The abundance of major music events during the Lutosławski Year was certainly impressive in terms of their number and standard. The involvement of leading conductors, artists and ensembles in programming the concerts and festivals featuring Lutosławski’s music also served as an external evaluation of his oeuvre and his person. Sir Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Antoni Wit with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi with the Orchestre de Paris, Sakari Oramo with the Royal Swedish Symphony Orchestra, and finally Krystian Zimerman and Anne-Sophie Mutter, presented Lutosławski’s compositions all over the world at the best concert venues and the most important festivals, from Berlin and Paris to Hong Kong and Moscow. The more than 1,500 events financed from the Lutosławski 2013 – Promise programme involved over 7,000 artists and more than 300,000 spectators and listeners. Recognising this list of performers and the great number of music lovers as a guarantee of the repertoire’s quality, we receive confirmation of the globally high position of the author of Chantefleurs et chantefables.

We need to remember that Lutosławski has not been with us for almost 20 years: no new pieces have been written, the composer has not conducted any concerts, and the witnesses of his era have also been passing away. At the same time, a new generation of musicologists, musicians and audiences is growing, for whom Lutosławski is a historical figure just like Baird and Serocki were for our generation. If a young musicologist takes a Lutosławski score and a young conductor places it on his pulpit, they are driven by an inner and independent evaluation of the composer’s oeuvre. This can serve as further proof that Lutosławski is anchored in the history of world music.

As indicated in our report, every two days a Lutosławski piece is performed in one of the world’s venues, and at least once a week a new rendition of one of his orchestral pieces is presented, providing yet another validation of Witold Lutosławski’s output in the global circulation of culture. The composer’s centenary and the accompanying musical celebrations have only added to the corroboration of his significance.

PHOTO: MARTA ANKIERSZTEJN | IM i T | ANKIERSZTEJN MARTA PHOTO: output in the global circulation of culture.

6 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 7 Paweł Potoroczyn Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Music lovers are perhaps the last group of active participants in culture who celebrate important anniversaries with a passion unknown to cinema or theatre enthusiasts. It was with them in mind that a trust which is unique in Polish culture (comprising the Institute of Music and Dance – IMiT, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute – IAM, the National Audiovisual Institute – NInA, the Polish Radio and the Witold Lutosławski Society – TWL) presented the international programme Lutosławski 100/100.

But we at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute are looking further ahead, beyond the jubilee year, believing that its effects should be measured by what the coming years bring – the quantity and quality of new performances of Lutosławski’s music, his regular presence in the repertoire of world-class orchestras and prestigious concert venues.

This year abounded in brilliant performances and concert recordings that have become part of the canon of world phonography. From our point of view it was also a very valuable and value-building tool for developing relations with our partners – conductors, artists, cura- tors, critics and academics. It was on the basis of these relations that the Polska Music programme and its leader Ewa Bogusz-Moore has been introducing contemporary Polish music into international circulation. Apart from the many magnificent spiritual experiences the Lutosławski Year gave us, this is what we at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute consider to be the project’s most important effect. L epiarz This year abounded in brilliant performances

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YEAR IN NUMBERS Lutosławski, who created one of the most glittering soundscapes of the 20th century.

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Throughout 2013, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute served as the Lutosławski Year Information Centre and coordinator for the celebrations of the Lutosławski Year abroad. | IAM | ik Ćw onra d : K : photo

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Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto was written for his compatriot INTERNATIONAL Krystian Zimerman, and nobody ‘owns’ it as Zimerman does, principally because it demands that superfine calibration of INAUGURATION OF the sound which is his speciality. LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR Michael Church | The Independent

30 January 2013 | London | Royal Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor Krystian Zimerman – piano

This is what Michael McManus wrote Anna S. Dębowska noted in at the Royal Festival Hall gained special 1970s. Salonen attended composition THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL, RAVISHING about the evening which inaugurated Gazeta Wyborcza that “Seldom does importance, as always when history classes which Lutosławski was teaching PLAYING. THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE the international celebration of the a contemporary composer trigger so many comes full circle. Zimerman returned to at the time at the Sibelius Academy in Witold Lutosławski Year. This was also warm emotions, devotion and respect in this piece after a long break. And, as he Helsinki. Salonen sketched a portrait not OF THE CONCERTO IN THE EVENING the first concert in the Woven Words. artists as Lutosławski. After performing says, his perception has been refreshed – only of a great composer, but also a man HAD EVERYTHING: A GREAT PIANIST AT Music Begins Where Words End series. the Concerto, Zimerman picked up the he plays it much more dramatically now. of great sensitivity and a subtle sense THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS, ALERT, The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted score from the pulpit and kissed it (and ... The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted of humour,” wrote Jacek Kornak for the by Esa-Pekka Salonen appeared at got an ovation from the audience). ... For by Salonen was fantastic, forming a single Prostoomuzyce.pl web portal. SYMPATHETIC CONDUCTING AND AN IAM | ORCHESTRA WHICH, ON THIS SHOWING the Royal Festival Hall before a large those who had the opportunity to hear the organism with the soloist.” The evening was rounded off with audience. The evening's programme Polish premiere of the Piano Concerto 25 “The concert itself was preceded some French music, which the Polish AT LEAST, HAS NUMEROUS STRENGTHS included Musique funèbre and the years ago at the Warsaw Autumn festival by a meeting with Salonen during which composer valued greatly – on this ik Ćw onra d AND NO OBVIOUS WEAKNESSES. HOW Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by – conducted by the composer and with the conductor spoke about his friendship occasion it was Maurice Ravel’s ballet K :

LUCKY WE ARE IN LONDON! Witold Lutosławski. Zimerman as the soloist – the evening with Lutosławski dating back to the late suite Daphnis et Chloé. photo

14 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 15 SELECTED EVENTS ABROAD WOVEN WORDS SERIES January – September 2013 Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor

“MUSIC BEGINS WHERE WORDS END” – THIS SENTENCE ONCE SAID BY WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI BECAME THE MOTTO FOR A SPECTACULAR PROJECT OF THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST AMBASSADORS OF LUTOSŁAWSKI’S OEUVRE, ESA-PEKKA SALONEN.

The project included symphonic concerts The events of the Woven Words series Institute was a patron. On 30 January in at the most prestigious venues around featured world-famous soloists: Krystian London, Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka the world, chamber concerts as well as Zimerman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Helene Salonen inaugurated the series called panel meetings devoted to Lutosławski. Grimaud (piano) as well as Matthias Woven Words: Music Begins Where Words An extensive internet platform was set Goerne (baritone), Truls Mørk (cello) End. ... Salonen with the Philharmonia up (www.woven-words.co.uk), presenting and Jennifer Koh (violin). The project Orchestra and soloists gave over a dozen new materials about the composer – helped consolidate Witold Lutosławski’s concerts – from Spain, through Warsaw, essays, films and articles by musicologists position in the world of classical to Japan. Salonen concluded the series on specialising in Lutosławski’s oeuvre: music. Jacek Hawryluk (Polish Radio) 9 September at the Berlin Philharmonic. Adrian Thomas, Charles Bodman Rae, emphasizes the project’s importance What of it will remain? An impression of Zbigniew Skowron, Nicholas Reyland and for the Lutosławski Year: “The most ideal international cooperation, artistic Steven Stucky. spectacular project turned out to be an professionalism and heartfelt admiration initiative of which the Adam Mickiewicz for the Pole’s music.”

There are moments when I would so like him to see something I’ve done, and I would love to get his opinion Lutosławski emerged as one of the great masters of twentieth and criticism. ...That would be great. He wasn’t technically century music not through celebrity or fashion, but by virtue of a teacher because he didn’t have students, but he was a very his fundamental values: the ravishing beauty of his sound world, powerful musical influence in my life. He’s been gone for his rich harmonic language, his expressive melodic voice, his | IAM | 20 years almost, and I still miss him, and I think of him, lucid forms, his attention to dramatic tension and release, and if not daily, at least every week. underlying everything, his drive to communicate. ik Ćw onra d ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Steven Stucky K : photo

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WOVEN WORDS

SERIES AROUND 13 March 2013 Warsaw The project bolstered THE WORLD Warsaw Philharmonic Witold Lutosławski’s Attendance: position in the world of 965 classical music. 30 January 2013 London 26 May 2013 Royal Festival Hall Dresden The enterprise included Attendance: Semperoper concerts in the world’s most 2450 Attendance: 1170 prestigious venues. 6 February 2013 9 September 2013 London Berlin Quenn Elisabeth Hall Berliner Attendance: Philharmonie Attendance: 810 2391 7 March 2013 London Royal Festival Hall Attendance: 2250

21 March 2013 London Royal Festival Hall Attendance: 2250

7 February 2013 10 June 2013 Tokyo Paris Opera City Hall Théâtre des Attendance: Champs-Elysées Attendance: 239 1710 19 May 2013 Madrid Auditorio Nacional Attendance: 2092

16 March 2013 17 March 2013 18 March 2013 28 May 2013 27 May 2013 Modena Udine Rome Lublana Vienna Teatro Comunale Teatro Nuovo Teatro Culture and Wiener Konzerthaus Luciano Pavarotti Giovanni da Udine dell'Opera Congress Centre Attendance: Attendance: Attendance: Attendance: Attendance: 1656 810 1107 1440 1080

18 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 19 SELECTED EVENTS ABROAD Berliner Philharmoniker YO-YO MA AND THE UNDER THE BATON OF SIR CHICAGO SYMPHONY SIMON RATTLE ORCHESTRA

February – April 2013 | Berlin | Berlin Philharmonic 28 February – 2 March 2013 | Chicago | Chicago Symphony Center Performers: Performers: Berliner Philharmoniker Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle – conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor Yo-Yo Ma – cello

IN THE EARLY MONTHS OF THE LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR, SIR SIMON RATTLE PERFORMING IN AS MANY AS THREE PRESENTED GERMAN CONCERTS IN CHICAGO, YO-YO MA PLAYED N e w s MUSIC LOVERS WITH WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S CONCERTO E ast | AS MANY AS 15 OF THE FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA WITH THE COMPOSER’S WORKS. CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, AN R ogi ń ski ENSEMBLE THAT IS COUNTED AMONG

In doing so, he made Lutosławski’s THE PRESTIGIOUS “BIG FIVE” SYMPHONY G rzegorz : music one of the highlights of the ORCHESTRAS OF THE UNITED STATES. photo Berliner Philhermoniker artistic season. Each concert was a unique artistic event, not only because of the carefully Tomasz Jeż wrote about the Concerto’s picked up the idea and often quoted it, When a composer’s works are played chosen repertoire but also thanks to the history, “During the composer’s meeting each time interpreting it in a political by celebrities like Yo-Yo Ma, the auditorium outstanding soloists, since the Berliner with Rostropovich in autumn 1970, to context, even seeking identification with is always filled to the last seat. It is not at Philharmoniker performed with such bring the future performer closer to his own biography. The political situation all surprising that music lovers came in artists as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Krystian understanding the Concerto for Cello in Poland at the time also suggested such such numbers to Chicago to listen to the Zimerman, Jonathan Kelly and Marie- and Orchestra Lutosławski used the an interpretation of the Concerto, despite Concerto interpreted by one of the world’s Pierre Langlamet. metaphor of an individual’s conflict with multiple denials from the composer most famous cellists – Yo-Yo Ma has never The composer’s works played at these the group as a possible key to interpreting himself.” Lutosławski repeated on many made a recording of this concerto. PHOTO: MAT HENNEK MAT PHOTO: concerts included Concerto for Orchestra, a composition that was so dramatic in occasions that his oeuvre did not express After the final concert in the series Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Concerto character. Rostropovich immediately any non-musical ideas. celebrating the 100th anniversary for Cello and Orchestra, Preludes and Fugue of Witold Lutosławski’s birth at the Berlin Philharmonic, on 20 April 2013 for 13 String Instruments, Double Concerto Sir Simon Rattle received the for Oboe, Harp and String Orchestra. Lutosławski Centennial Medal. The superstar cellist also makes it his mission to throw his The Berliner Philharmoniker website th posted the following description of one considerable clout and prestige behind deserving 20 century of the concerts: “Lutosławski, who died cello repertory. ... The performance [of Witold Lutosławski’s in 1994 ... is one of the most versatile and significant Polish composers of the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra] proved a fitting tribute to 20th century ... Lutosławski’s person and the late, great Polish composer. oeuvre have long been known to music John van Rhein | Chicago TRIBUNE lovers who need not have a particular predilection for the avant-garde.”

20 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 21 SELECTED EVENTS ABROAD BBC Proms Musikfest Berlin July – September 2013 | London | Royal Albert Hall August – September 2013 | Berlin | Berlin Philharmonic Performers: Performers: BBC Symphony Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker English Chamber Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Warsaw Philharmonic Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Conductors: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Thomas Adès Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner Staatskapelle Berlin Sakari Oramo Antoni Wit

The audience at the Lutosławski’s music was presented by | IAM | THE 2013 EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL, organised BY Royal Albert Hall greeted BERLINER FESTSPIELE, WAS DEDICATED TO THREE top European orchestras led by famous conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Lutosławski’s Concerto for COMPOSERS FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: ik Ćw onra d Daniele Gatti, Mariss Jansons and Daniel : K : Cello and Orchestra with cries WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI, BÉLA BARTÓK AND LEOŠ Barenboim. photo of enthusiasm. Before then, JANÁČEK. Of the festival’s final concert, Jacek Marczyński (Rzeczpospolita) wrote that we probably only the inauguration needed to warm audiences to Lutosławski, of the concerts in Esa-Pekka who was still considered an avant-garde composer. That this is worth doing was Salonen’s Woven Words series proved by “the enthusiasm with which in London had been such Lutosławski’s Symphony No. 3 was received in Berlin on Monday. London’s Philharmonia a success. Orchestra was conducted by Esa-Pekka ANNA GROMNICKA | WPROST Salonen. If it were not for this Finnish artist, perhaps the Berlin festival would have been different. He was the one who persuaded BBC Proms Director Roger the festival’s director that the 2013 edition Wright at a meeting with Polish journalists. should be dedicated to Lutosławski. The Philharmonia Orchestra, meanwhile, | IAM | THE BBC PROMS IS THE LARGEST AND OLDEST OF THE highlighted the somnambulistic nature of the music so well that the pieces by Debussy CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVALS, ALWAYS ATTRACTING ik Ćw onra d and Ravel, though similar in mood, sounded LEADING ARTISTS, CONDUCTORS AS WELL AS HUNDREDS OF K : weak.”

THOUSANDS OF MUSIC LOVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. photo The ten concerts during the Musikfest in Last year’s edition was the first ever to by Sakari Oramo. A few days later, the from the concerts, the festival also featured Berlin gathered an audience of almost present music by Polish composers on British orchestra gave another magnificent lectures, workshops, shows and family events. Musikfest Berlin After the sixth concert of this year’s 22,000 music lovers. The festival’s final such a scale. Apart from the works of performance, this time playing with cellist Director Winrich Hopp concert also concluded the Woven Words at a meeting with Lutosławski, there was also music written Paul Watkins. The original idea behind the BBC Polish journalists. Berliner Festspiele festival, presenting series. by Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Mikołaj Smaller-scale works by Lutosławski Proms, which came into being in 1895, was to works of Witold Lutosławski, director Górecki, Karol Szymanowski and Sir were also presented at the festival, including popularise classical music among the broad Andrzej Panufnik. The radio broadcasts of Partita performed by Vilde Frang and Michail public. The promenade concerts, conceived Winrich Hopp, who was behind the music the Lutosławski concerts had an audience Lifits during two concerts at Cadogan Hall as a series of events for the less discerning programme, told reporters: “You mustn’t of over 2 million people. and Paroles tissées performed by Ben audience, developed from an educational As many as 12 festival concerts in 2013 Johnson and the English Chamber Orchestra and promotional festival into a veritable think we are playing Polish music here. featured Polish music. At the inauguration, conducted by Paul Watkins. The programme music lovers’ feast. The BBC has been the This is a Lutosławski festival, for me he the audience listened to Lutosławski’s also included a performance from the festival’s organiser uninterruptedly since 1927, is a composer I compare to Mozart”. Variations on a Theme by Paganini played Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted broadcasting the concerts on television, radio by pianist Stephen Hough accompanied by by Antoni Wit, marking the first appearance and online. JACEK MARCZYŃSKI | RZECZPOSPOLITA the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted of a Polish orchestra at the festival. Apart

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May 2013 | Wrocław | 13 Pioneering Values 15th Biennale of Media Art September 2013 | Warsaw | 56th International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn”

THIS LATEST INSTALLATION BY PAWEŁ JANICKI, AN ARTIST | IAM | AFFILIATED WITH THE WRO ART CENTRE, WAS INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI. THE ARTIST ik Ćw onra d

: K : TRANSFERRED THE IDEA OF CONTROLLED ALEATORISM, THE COMPOSITION TECHNIQUE INVENTED BY WITOLD photo LUTOSŁAWSKI, TO THE MULTIMEDIA ARTS.

This technique does away with a metric The installation very accessibly division in the music score – the composer explains the idea of controlled aleatorism only sets the pitch of the sounds, whereas through a simple empirical experiment the performer chooses the tempo at which requiring no music reading ability: to play them. anyone viewing the installation can An audiovisual recording of the piece learn about the mechanisms of this presented on three screens is correlated composition technique themselves, by with the movement of gramophones which controlling the vinyl records on three are freely controlled by spectators. By gramophones – manipulating the speed moving a gramophone record, viewers of looped soundtracks, which always can influence the replay effect and tempo. desynchronises the played material, Slowing down, stopping, speeding up the meaning that a new, unique ’work of record, pressing it down with the fingers, music’ is created every time. This work scratching or lifting the gramophone is interactive, as the viewers can also arm to a different spot on the record – all use extra sound effects via their mobile these techniques enable anyone to give devices (tablets, smartphones) thanks to their own ’performance’ of the piece. The a special application available online. opportunity for any number of people to experiment at the same time leaves an impression of a ’group’ performance, encouraging interaction among the viewers.

A brief piece of percussion music was created specifically for the installation. The work begins with a brief invocation – Witold Lutosławski’s text on aleatorism and its principles. An audiovisual recording of the piece presented on three screens is correlated with the movement of gramophones which are freely controlled by spectators.

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The Adam Mickiewicz Institute takes us by QUAY BROTHERS ANIMATION – surprise this year with some excellent ideas for the celebration of the year of our famous RUHRTRIENNALE FESTIVAL composer. After an unusual experimental 22–23 September 2013 | Duisburg | Gebläsehalle exhibition and a few more classic ideas, Performers: the time has come for Lutosławski to enter Quay Brothers Arditti Quartet cinema, and introduced not by just anybody.

kulturaonline.pl

STEPHEN AND TIMOTHY QUAY ARE A DUO OF AVANT-GARDE AMERICAN ARTISTS FAMOUS FOR THEIR INIMITABLE FILM ANIMATIONS BASED ON UNIQUE SET DESIGN AND DISTINCTIVE PUPPETS WHICH THEY MAKE THEMSELVES.

The artists’ latest work, commissioned by “The String Quartet is a new voice in As they point out themselves, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, was inspired their output, flat and graphic, renouncing these filmmakers explored Central-Eastern by Witold Lutosławski’s String Quartet. The realism in favour of a sign ... For the Quays Europe through the eyes of Kafka and premiere of this animation took place at the the String Quartet is an experiment, taking Schulz. To the latter they also owe their Ruhrtriennale – currently one of the most them beyond the three-dimensional puppet fame in Poland and the adoration of fans. | R uhrtriennale | interesting art festivals in the world. The set, beyond ballet but also beyond the Their surreal animated picture Street of main theme of the latest edition was the catalogue of found images. Lutosławski’s Crocodiles is already a film classic and K ne ff el relationship between images and sounds. aleatorism is the ideal soundtrack for this delights successive generations of cinema- The live music at the animation’s premiere expedition,” wrote Adrianna Prodeus in goers” – Kulturaonline.pl – Lutosławski’s String Quartet – was Ruch Muzyczny. “The famous Quay twins are M ichael :

performed by the Arditti Quartet. wonderful ambassadors of Polish culture. photo

THE CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA DEDICATED TO KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN BECAME AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THE WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR CELEBRATIONS. DURING THE CENTENARY CONCERTS THE GREAT PIANIST PRESENTED HIS INTERPRETATION TO A WORLD AUDIENCE OF ALMOST 20,000 PEOPLE.

The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was To celebrate the Witold Lutosławski commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, Year, Krystian Zimerman performed the where the piece had its world premiere Concerto in Singapore, Paris, Zurich and on 19 August 1988. The soloist was Berlin, to name a few of the cities, as well Krystian Zimerman and the Austrian as London’s Royal Festival Hall where he Radio Symphony Orchestra was conducted inaugurated the centenary celebrations by the composer. The first Polish and the Woven Words series. Some performance of the Concerto for Piano of Zimerman’s concerts familiarised and Orchestra took place at the Warsaw not only international audiences with Autumn festival in the same year – of Lutosławski’s Concerto: “Audiences in course with Krystian Zimerman on piano Paris, Lucerne and London, but also and Lutosławski conducting. we Poles are rediscovering this work The pianist emphasises how much and are amazed that we listen to it so his perception of the Concerto changed seldom,” wrote Jacek Marczyński for over the years: “I was stunned by the the Dwutygodnik.com website. “In the number of exquisite moments, the way world’s regular concert life, unrelated to everything pulled together and how any anniversary, Lutosławski is present cleverly it was made. Remember that so mainly as the composer of Concerto for many composers wanted to write piano Orchestra, Musique funèbre and the last concertos back then. Only our great two symphonies. Meanwhile, he deserves composers managed it well, namely admiration just for the courage to tackle Lutosławski and Penderecki,” Zimerman a piano concerto – a form with a huge told Adam Rozlach in an interview for the tradition. Among the great composers I was stunned by the number of exquisite moments, Polish Radio. of the second half of the 20th century, the way everything pulled together and how cleverly it he was a noble exception in the field,” Marczyński added. was made. Remember that so many composers wanted to write piano concertos back then. Only our great composers managed it well, namely Lutosławski and Penderecki. D G &

Krystian Zimerman : K asskara : photo

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25 October – 13 December 2013 | New York Performers: BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner – conductor Tasmin Little – violin Michael Collins – clarinet

CELEBRATING POLAND WAS A FESTIVAL ORGANISED BY A MAJOR U.S. RADIO STATION DEVOTED TO CLASSICAL MUSIC AS PART OF ITS COLLABORATION WITH THE ADAM – NEW YORK-BASED ONLINE RADIO STATION Q2 MUSIC. MICKIEWICZ INSTITUTE, THE HIGHLY REGARDED INDEPENDENT BRITISH COMPANY CHANDOS RECORDS HAS RELEASED ITS LATEST ALBUM IN THE WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI – ORCHESTRAL WORKS SERIES.

“Presented so far on five records, that Britten, also liked by the British this vision of Lutosławski’s aesthetics conductor, was a traditionalist. Gardner’s surprises us with its cohesion, consistency Lutosławski is not an avant-garde and a degree of conservatism – in the composer with neo-classical origins but good sense of the word. … Gardner’s a neo-classic who successfully managed recordings for Chandos are unrivalled to adapt avant-garde means,” wrote in terms of their even and high standard Michał Mendyk in Ruch Muzyczny. The event’s theme was the work of Contemporary Music Ensemble were live- of performance and their coherence Collaborating with the Adam Witold Lutosławski presented against streamed and there were also three 24- of interpretation (such celebrities as Mickiewicz Institute, Chandos Records the backdrop of 20th-century music hour music marathons, of which the most clarinettist Michael Collins and the created a special series called Muzyka around the world, displaying its influence important Lutosławski@100 included seven aforementioned Louis Lortie fit in Polska to present works by the greatest 19th on successive generations of Polish one-hour episodes by Steven Stucky, excellently with the conductor’s overall and 20th-century Polish composers: Karol composers. Thus, the broadcasts also composer and researcher of Lutosławski’s vision). More importantly, this is a series Szymanowski, Grażyna Bacewicz, Krzysztof showcased the music of Krzysztof oeuvre. Also featured was an interview planned as a portrait of the 20th-century Penderecki, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Penderecki, Agata Zubel, Wojciech Kilar, with Esa-Pekka Salonen, one of the main classic, or even traditionalist in the sense Witold Lutosławski. Paweł Mykietyn, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, promoters of Lutosławski’s music in the Paweł Szymański, Jerzy Kornowicz, world. Tadeusz Baird, Elżbieta Sikora, Aleksander All the marathons and concerts, as Nowak or Wojtek Blecharz. well as the live performance streams, are Concerts of Polish contemporary available in the on-demand system from music featuring the American the Q2Music.org website. Chandos Records is a greatly respected British independent record company that has won recognition from After the Witold Lutosławski: the Gramophone magazine on many A Centennial Tribute concert held in occasions. Symphony Space, a discussion summed up the legacy of Lutosławski’s music and his contribution to the development of contemporary music in the world.

30 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 31 SELECTED EVENTS ABROAD LUTOSŁAWSKI: SOUVENIRS OF the THE SYMPHONIES LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR Producer: SONY CLASSICAL Adam Mickiewicz Institute Performers: Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor

IN WRITING HIS SCORES LUTOSŁAWSKI USED A PENCIL, IN JANUARY 2013 MUSIC LOVERS RECEIVED A TREAT ERASING NOTES EVERY NOW AND THEN AND LEAVING WITH SONY CLASSICAL’S TWO-CD ALBUM LUTOSŁAWSKI: ERASER CRUSTS ON THE MANUSCRIPTS, WHICH HE THEN THE SYMPHONIES PERFORMED BY THE LOS ANGELES REMOVED WITH A BRUSH. PHILHARMONIC CONDUCTED BY ESA-PEKKA SALONEN.

This wooden box was a As Seth Colter Walls wrote for the this is one of the most prestigious music prestigious radio website WQXR, “when awards in Germany. The recording of surprising promotional gift listening to Salonen one can say a lot about Symphony No. 1 for this album was for the Lutosławski Year his enduring respect for the composer.” also nominated for a Grammy for Best Apart from Symphonies No. 2–4 Orchestral Performance. celebrations. Many of the released in previous years, these CDs also “Released on the centenary of Witold recipients were openly include the first-ever recording of Witold Lutosławski’s birth, his four symphonies touched, saying it was a Lutosławski’s Symphony No. 1 in Salonen’s composed in the course of 50 years, interpretation. between 1947 and 1992, concisely reflect very apt reference to the As Dorota Szwarcman wrote in the the development of this major Polish composer’s personality and Polityka weekly, “The package will certainly composer’s style. The live recordings of enter the canon of recordings of this the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the the way he worked. music, especially since this is Lutosławski baton of its long-time conductor Esa- almost at first hand: the conductor knew Pekka Salonen, who knew Lutosławski the composer personally and considers and has been his promoter since his him to be the person who influenced his youth, were made between 1985 and 2012. artistic path the most.” This is a model performance that shows IAM :

Lutosławski: The Symphonies won the off all the facets of Lutosławski’s music,” photo Preis der Deutchen Schallplatenkritik stated Deutchen Schallplatenkritik jury award in the symphonic music category; member Peter Stieber. “The Poles (and by Poles I mean the photograph that shows him at his work- admirable Adam Mickiewicz Institute desk with a comparable dust-pan brush which is like our British Council but beside him. ... apparently he wrote his more imaginative) have come up the scores in pencil, rubbing out from time most charmingly useless music-related to time and leaving specks of rubber on gift I’ve ever seen. ... it’s a small wooden the manuscript. ... The brush was there to box, beautifully made, embellished with sweep them off,” wrote Michael White in the Lutosławski signature, containing The Telegraph. a small wooden brush (of the kind that, if Lutosławski could not have found it were bigger, would go with a dustpan), T-shirts with a picture of Lutosławski on a better performer of his works. and a rubber-tipped pencil. By way them, designed by Marcin Łagocki, were of explanation it comes with a Luto also hugely popular. Jacek Hawryluk | POLISH RADIO

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Throughout 2013, the Institute of Music and Dance served as the Lutosławski Year Celebration Office and operator of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Lutosławski 2013 – Promise programme. | IAM | ik Ćw onra d

: K : Anne-Sophie Mutter receives the Lutosławski Centennial Medal at the Lutosławski Year

photo inauguration concert at the Warsaw Philharmonic SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND

Over fifteen hundred events were PROGRAMME OF THE held in over a hundred cities of twelve countries around the world MINISTER OF CULTURE AND as part of the Lutosławski 2013 – NATIONAL HERITAGE Promise programme. The operator of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage’s programme: Institute of Music and Dance

LUTOSŁAWSKI 2013 – PROMISE PROGRAMME ATTRACTS 300,000 PARTICIPANTS

From among many projects submitted, the radio programmes and almost 40 lectures, competition committee chose more than discussion panels, talks and academic fifteen hundred events: concerts, festivals, sessions. Among the aforementioned exhibitions, conferences, recordings, events, a very important role was played by publications, stage plays and dance those meant for children: shows, concerts, productions. The artistic events were held books and CDs. The number of events, their in Poland and abroad – from Russia to territorial scope and the audience spectrum Canada. will most certainly break the stereotype that The projects selected for the contemporary music is obscure. programme included almost 100 concerts When evaluating the applications for featuring leading artists, 85 shows, over the programme, the committee kept in 60 meetings with artists, 33 competitions mind another event of 2013 in Poland – the and over 50 published CDs, books and celebration of the Julian Tuwim Year. Almost music scores. The programme placed 40% of the projects that received funding, strong emphasis on education. Support was especially the educational ones, involved provided to more than 60 workshops and Lutosławski’s music composed to poems courses, 110 school radio programmes, 300 by the Polish poet.

Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski at the press conference heralding the Lutosławski Year celebrations. | IAM | ik Ćw onra d : K : photo

36 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 37 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND WALKING GUIDE TO LUTOSŁAWSKI 1913–2013 LUTOSŁAWSKI’S WARSAW BOOK ALBUM lutoslawski.warszawa.pl Publishers: Witold Lutosławski Society Historical Museum of Warsaw Institute of Music and Dance

The bilingual, Polish- ELŻBIETA MARKOWSKA’S BOOK ALBUM LUTOSŁAWSKI. English application does 1913–2013, OVER 300 PAGES LONG, CONTAINS A LARGE SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF not include any music. We FAMILY AND FRIENDS, QUOTES FROM THE COMPOSER AND acted in accordance with REMINISCENCES OF THOSE CLOSE TO HIM. the opinion of Lutosławski himself, who once wrote that there was nothing worse for “It is a kind of book of ‘excerpts’ or an anthology, because besides numerous a composer than to have his photographs, the album is filled music distorted by street mainly with texts already published before. First and foremost, these are sounds. transcripts of what Lutosławski said Artur Szklener (NIFC) when he talked to Elżbieta Markowska on Polish Radio Program 2,” wrote Olgierd Pisarenko in an extensive review of the publication for Ruch Muzyczny. “In the case of the album book entitled (over-unpretentiously) Lutosławski 1913–2013, we can certainly speak of success: this volume will be of interest to anyone who has come in contact with Lutosławski’s music. Whoever had the good fortune to meet him in person (and they are still many) will happily revive their memory’s image of this extraordinary man endowed with a brilliant intelligence, MOBILE APPLICATION ENABLES USERS TO PICK UP who was a great artistic and moral LUTOSŁAWSKI’S TRAIL IN WARSAW. authority as well as being modest, reserved, endearingly gentle and open A collaboration between the Institute of where he often went. The application “At first we planned to celebrate to the affairs of other people,” wrote Music and Dance, the Fryderyk Chopin presents facts from Lutosławski’s life the centenary of Lutosławski’s birth Olgierd Pisarenko. Institute, the Witold Lutosławski Society in an interesting way, together with by publishing a book – to present his and Netingen has yielded a mobile information about his music and the biography through the history of Warsaw, application enabling users to sightsee people who influenced his private and a city that was very dear to him,” says As a whole, contained within a defined framework (Composer around Warsaw tracing the life of professional life. The guide is divided Kamila Stępień-Kutera, one of the guide’s Lutosławski. The walking guide Witold into seven themed routes encompassing authors. “In the end we decided to go – Pianist – Conductor – Citizen – Circle – Family – Radio), Lutosławski. Guide to Warsaw, available in 56 sites around the city. The texts were with an electronic guide, which is more it has a loose, mosaic-like structure. It is a kind of book of Polish and English, takes you on a tour prepared by Danuta Gwizdalanka, the convenient to use than a book.” of the composer’s home town, showing voices are those of Rafał Dziwisz and The freeware application is available ‘excerpts’ or an anthology. places with some connection to him or Ramon Shindler. for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Olgierd Pisarenko | Ruch Muzyczny

38 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 39 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND PostSłowie 10TH CHAIN FESTIVAL 24 January – 9 February 2013 | Warsaw BY ANDRZEJ CHŁOPECKI Organisers: Witold Lutosławski Society Publisher: Institute of Music and Dance Witold Lutosławski Society

Andrzej Chłopecki’s book PostSłowie. A CONCERT AT THE ROYAL Przewodnik po muzyce Witolda CASTLE IN WARSAW ON Lutosławskiego [PostWord. A Guide THE EVE OF THE 100TH to the Music of Witold Lutosławski], ANNIVERSARY OF WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S BIRTH which the publishers planned as a INAUGURATED THE 10TH special feature of the celebration of the CHAIN FESTIVAL. THE composer’s centenary, turned out to be a CONCERT WAS ALSO race against time, or rather against death, AN OCCASION FOR THE for its author. It was a race that he lost, PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST LUTOSŁAWSKI unfortunately – he passed away before CENTENNIAL MEDALS. finishing and editing the book. What

remains is a volume that is interesting IAM | The festival comprised concerts, master in many details, though controversial – classes, the opted pieces by Krzysztof

like most of what Chłopecki had to say. Penderecki, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and ik Ćw onra d : K : Actually, it was apparently he who wanted recipients of Lutosławski scholarships

– Grażyna and Andrzej Krzanowski, photo wide margins for the text so that readers Aleksander Lasoń, Tadeusz Wielecki, Aukso Tychy Chamber Orchestra and Maja could have a discussion with him. It’s a Paweł Mykietyn and Tomasz Opałka, Komorowska at the 10th Chain Festival inauguration performed by the greatest Polish concert, Royal Castle, Warsaw. shame that the discussion on his part can orchestras, including the Polish Radio develop no further. National Symphony Orchestra from Katowice, the Witold Lutosławski Wrocław Dorota Szwarcman | POLITYKA The publication won Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish Radio recognition from Established by the Witold Lutosławski the jury of the 53rd Orchestra, the Aukso Chamber Orchestra Competition of the Society and the Institute of Music and Polish Association from Tychy, Sinfonia Varsovia, Sinfonietta of Book Publishers, Cracovia. The conductors were all big which nominated Dance, the Lutosławski Centennial Medal is it in the “Academic names, including Łukasz Borowicz, and Popular Science Robert Kabara, Jacek Kaspszyk, Wojciech awarded to individuals who made outstanding Books” category for an award in the Most Michniewski, Marek Moś, Krzysztof contributions in the popularisation of Witold EMINENT MUSIC CRITIC ANDRZEJ CHŁOPECKI’S Beautiful Books of Penderecki and Pierre-André Valade. The 2012 competition. Lutosławski’s music and the dissemination LAST WORK IS A SPECIAL GUIDE TO WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S soloists included Anna Radziejewska, OEUVRE. Elżbieta Szmytka, Marcel Beekman and of knowledge about him as a person, and Garrick Ohlsson. The choral parts were to the composer’s family and friend, as The book contains an in-depth after Chłopecki’s death, based on his performed by the Chorus of the Teatr description of most of the Maestro’s journalistic writing and notes. The book Wielki – Polish National Opera. well as collaborators in artistic endeavours works, including symphonies, orchestra also contains three essays in which the and partners in social activities. The full and concertante works as well as French critic summarises Lutosławski’s oeuvre, lieder. Information about Polish lieder, indicating some breakthrough moments list of awardees is available on the Witold chamber and solo pieces was gathered on his aesthetic path. Lutosławski Society website.

40 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 41 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND INAUGURATION O F the WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR IN POLAND

25 January 2013 | Warsaw | Warsaw Philharmonic Performers: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Antoni Wit – conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter – violin

THE CELEBRATION OF the WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR IN POLAND WAS LAUNCHED AT THE WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ON THE CENTENARY OF THE COMPOSER’S BIRTH.

Chain 2, of which outstanding German also played Lutosławski’s Symphony No. violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was 3 and a new piece by Paweł Szymański the first performer, and Partita and – Sostenuto for Symphony Orchestra Interludium which were also written with – written specially for the occasion her in mind, were all presented by the and commissioned by the Warsaw violinist herself to the large audience Philharmonic. The evening also saw the gathered at the Warsaw Philharmonic. opening of the Lutosławski The soloist was accompanied by the 1913–1994 exhibition, which has since Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra been presented in several venues conducted by Antoni Wit. The orchestra worldwide.

Contemporary music is often like mathematics, it is like a precise equation that you have to solve. His compositions, meanwhile, have a natural narration. By creating ‘ad libitum’ parts within them, where performers can almost improvise because they have freedom in the way they handle time and dynamics, he gave us a sense of freedom. He liberated soloists from the omnipotence of conductors.

Jacek Marczyński | Rzeczpospolita | IAM | ik Ćw onra d

: K : Anne-Sophie Mutter after performing Lutosławski’s Partita with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

photo conducted by Antoni Wit.

42 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 43 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND GENIUS LUTOS – SOCIAL INTEGRATION PROJECT 15 August – 1 September 2013 | Szczecin Organisers: Witold Lutosławski Society Mieczysław Karłowicz Szczecin Philharmonic Institute of Music and Dance

A CONCERT OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS AT THE SZCZECIN PHILHARMONIC PERFORMED BY THE GAMELAN PERCUSSION ORCHESTRA STARTED OFF THE GENIUS LUTOS PROJECT.

The project was created with the aim Philharmonic and joint workshops. of encouraging intellectually disabled These served to prepare a repertoire people to take part in music culture and based on Lutosławski’s ideas and pieces overcoming stereotypes connected with of music inspired by his oeuvre, which the perception of intellectually disabled the performers presented to a wider people. Genius Lutos included diverse audience during joint concerts. The forms of activity, such as rehearsals project’s lasting effect is a methodology of the Gamelan Percussion Orchestra guide and a 10-segment film with musicians from the Szczecin documentary.

There has never been such a project: Genius Lutos. On one stage: professionals from the Szczecin Philharmonic and amateurs – intellectually disabled musicians from the Gamelan orchestra. Together they are preparing a concert in Wi ś nie w ski honour of Witold Lutosławski. They are through their first

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44 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 45 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION January – September 2013 | Warsaw Organisers: Witold Lutosławski Society Polish Composers’ Union Institute of Music and Dance

TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY, THE WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI SOCIETY, THE POLISH COMPOSERS’ UNION TOGETHER WITH THE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC AND DANCE ANNOUNCED AN INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION.

The subject of the competition was composition won the prize of Minister of Autumn International Festival of a composition for a symphony orchestra Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Contemporary Music on 28 September of the same makeup as that of Witold Zdrojewski – 10,000 euros. 2013. Thomas Simaku’s Concerto for Lutosławski’s late symphonies, The second prize went to Chris Roe Orchestra was performed by the Warsaw lasting no less than 10 minutes. The from the United Kingdom, for Lavoisier’s Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by jury, comprising Luca Francesconi, Mirrors, together with a cash prize of Rafał Janiak. The work that won second Kazimierz Kord, Magnus Lindberg, 5,000 euros from the Witold Lutosławski prize was performed for the first time Steven Stucky, Paweł Szymański and Society and the Institute of Music and by the International Lutosławski Youth Tadeusz Wielecki, waited until 25 Dance. The winner of the third prize was Orchestra (ILYO) on 6 September 2013 January 2013 – the 100th anniversary Natalya Chepelyuk from Minsk and her at the Mieczysław Karłowicz Szczecin of the composer’s birth – for original composition Adria II, the cash prize being Philharmonic. The world premiere of the compositions that had never 3,000 euros from the ZAiKS Association third prize winner’s piece is due to take been awarded nor performed in public of Authors. The jury also awarded place on 9 February 2014 during the final before. They received 160 entries from a special mention to Chikako Yamanaka concert of the 11th Witold Lutosławski all over the world. from Japan for Signal to Signalless. Chain Festival. The composition will The winner was Thomas Simaku, an The world premiere performance be played by the Polish Radio National Albanian residing in the United Kingdom, of the winner’s composition took place Symphony Orchestra conducted by and his Concerto for Orchestra. The at the final concert of the 56th Warsaw Alexander Liebreich.

The winner was Thomas Simaku, an Albanian residing in the United Kingdom, and his Concerto for Orchestra. The composition won the prize of Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski – 10,000 euros.

46 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 47 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND 9 TH WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI INTERNATIONAL CELLO COMPETITION

21–28 February 2013 | Warsaw | Warsaw Philharmonic Organisers: Foundation for the Promotion of Young Cellists Warsaw Philharmonic Mazovia Region Centre for Culture and Arts Karol Szymanowski School of Music in Warsaw Institute of Music and Dance

THE COMPETITION IS HELD EVERY TWO YEARS. IT WAS CREATED FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS AT THE START OF THEIR MUSIC CAREERS. THE UPPER AGE LIMIT IS 24 YEARS. THE COMPETITION’S EXTREMELY DEMANDING PROGRAMME FACILITATES THE SELECTION OF THE MOST TALENTED CELLISTS, WHO ARE LIKELY TO PURSUE SOLO CAREERS.

The honorary patrons of the competition’s Peter Maintz (Germany), Daniel Veis ninth edition were Anna Komorowska, (Czech Republic), Roman Jabłoński First Lady of the Republic of Poland, and (Spain/Poland), Kazimierz Kord, Bartosz Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture Koziak and Kazimierz Michalik (Poland). and National Heritage. The competition The prize-winners were: Chiara was organised by the Foundation for the Enderle (Switzerland) – first prize, Promotion of Young Cellists in association Dominik Płociński (Poland) and Víctor with the Warsaw Philharmonic, the García García (Spain) – joint second Mazovia Region Centre for Culture and prize, and Edward Alexander King (New Arts and the Karol Szymanowski School of Zealand) – third prize. Music in Warsaw. The prize-winners received cash 42 entrants from 21 countries were prizes worth a total of 15,000 euros. The accepted for the competition. The jury first prize winner received an additional of the ninth edition comprised Tsuyoshi honour from the Warsaw Philharmonic Tsutsumi (Japan), Jesús Castro-Balbi – an invitation to perform on stage (USA), Philippe Muller (France), Jens there.

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photo Andrzej Bauer | cellist, teacher and experimenter

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The young choreographers and alumni of the University of CHOREOGRAPHIES Arts in Poznań were tasked with putting up a ballet show to Lutosławski’s music. The aim of the project was to take TO LUTOSŁAWSKI’S contemporary music to a wider audience and to inspire young, beginner choreographers to design classical and neo-classical MUSIC choreographies to contemporary Polish music.

Organisers: Marek Zaradniak | Gł os Wielkopolski on the Lutosławski. Wieczór młodych choreografów Stanisław Moniuszko Teatr Wielki in Poznań [Lutosławski. Young Choreographers’ Evening] project Institute of Music and Dance and Wrocław Philharmonic Szczecin’s Opera in the Castle

THE EVENTS CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S BIRTH HAD TO INCLUDE DANCE PERFORMANCES FEATURING HIS MUSIC.

Lutosławski. Young Choreographers’ Castle Książ in Wałbrzych hosted the Evening at the Stanisław Moniuszko premiere of String Quartet, a show Teatr Wielki in Poznań was a show by talented young-generation dancer prepared by Diana Gajownik-Stankow, and choreographer Kaja Kołodziejczyk Wiktor Dawydiuk, Stephan Aubry, Natalia presented during a session of the 27th Trafankowska and Monika Gałęska. “The Congress of the International Society for young choreographers and alumni of the Performing Arts. The show, performed the University of Arts in Poznań were to live music by Witold Lutosławski tasked with putting up a ballet show played by the Lutosławski Quartet, to Lutosławski’s music. The aim of was commissioned by the Wrocław the project was to take contemporary Philharmonic and the Institute of Music music to a wider audience and to inspire and Dance. young, beginner choreographers to Ogniwa [Links]. Evening of New design classical and neo-classical Choreographies to the Music of Witold choreographies to contemporary Polish Lutosławski was a production presented by music,” wrote Marek Zaradniak in Głos Szczecin’s Opera in the Castle. This project Wielkopolski. was the result of a collaboration between Piotr Zubowicz, Kaja Kołodziejczyk, Ilian Garnetz and Robert Glumbek.

The pieces chosen for the ballet evening represent different stages in Lutosławski’s development as a composer, revealing the individual aspects of his artistic personality.

PIOTR DEPTUCH | on the Ogniwa [Links] performance ARCHIVES CASTLE IN OPERA SZCZECIN'S THE F ROM PHOTO:

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Lutosławski AMONG THE ANNIVERSARY EVENTS HELD DURING the WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR, FOR CHILDREN MANY FOCUSED ON CHILDREN.

January – December 2013 Organisers: The premiere of a show called The Tale theme is a Polish Radio drama based on Krystyna Bochenek Katowice Culture Centre of Witek Who Became a Great Composer Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Zygmunt Noskowski Foundation and the Łódź Music Theatre took place on 21 July 2013 as part of Nightingale for which Witold Lutosławski Zamek Culture Centre in Poznań the Summer Theatre Garden event. This composed the music (recording from 1954). unusual performance was the aftermath Another event for children was of artistic musical workshops for children a concert called Lutosławski, Tuwim – aged 7-11 organised in connection with Songs Not Just for Children, designed in the Lutosławski Year celebrations. In the 2013 as part of the Witold Lutosławski for

cka course of two weeks, children supervised Children project and resulting in a CD. a łą

P by professional artists produced the Dorota Miśkiewicz and Kwadrofonik tackled story’s text and stage design. The children’s songs by Witold Lutosławski organiser of the workshops was the written to texts by Julian Tuwim that : Dominika : Krystyna Bochenek Katowice Culture are familiar to every Polish child. The

photo Centre. The project’s lasting effect was composer treated his task very seriously, a printed book with an audiobook. but also with a large degree of tenderness. Mr Lutosławski was a multidisciplinary “The Kwadrofonik band and Dorota music project for children that combined Miśkiewicz proposed new, very colourful music, elements of stage acting, arrangements, modern though played choreography and animation. It was born exclusively on acoustic instruments, of out of a collaboration between the Zygmunt 10 songs that were written more than 60 Noskowski Foundation and the Łódź Music years ago but are timeless,” reads one of Theatre on the centenary of the great the project’s descriptions on the Polish Polish composer – Witold Lutosławski. The Radio website. Concerts of this programme project premiered on 6 November 2013 at were held at such venues as the Zamek the Łódź Music Theatre. The show, written Culture Centre in Poznań, the Oskar by Bogumiła Dziel-Wawrowska, with music Kolberg Świętokrzyska Philharmonic in by Tomasz Opałka, has two separate Kielce, the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio themes. The first is the composer’s story Concert Studio in Warsaw and (as part of of his life and work presented against the the Lutosfery project) at the Centre for backdrop of historical events. The other Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle.

The Kwadrofonik band and Dorota Miśkiewicz proposed new, very colourful arrangements, modern though played exclusively on acoustic instruments, of 10 songs that were written more than 60 years ago but appear to be timeless.

POLISH RADIO

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15 August – 1 September 2013 | Warsaw Organisers: Fryderyk Chopin Institute City of Warsaw Polish Radio Program 2

THE TITLE OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL WAS MEANINGFUL: FROM CHOPIN TO LUTOSŁAWSKI. DURING THE FESTIVAL’S CONCERTS THE OUTPUT OF 19TH-CENTURY COMPOSERS WAS CONFRONTED WITH 20TH-CENTURY MUSIC.

The concert programme was filled World-famous soloists took part in all with masterpieces of Romantic music the concerts featuring Lutosławski’s music. juxtaposed with more recent works, They included Gerhard Oppitz, Ewa Podleś, including those by Polish composers: Ewa Pobłocka and Robert Cohen, who were Szymanowski, Penderecki, Górecki and accompanied by the following orchestras: Lutosławski. A total of nine concerts Royal String Quartet, Sinfonia Varsovia, featuring Witold Lutosławski’s music took Aukso Chamber Orchestra from Tychy, place: on 15, 16, 23, 25, 28 and 29 August Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra at the Warsaw Philharmonic, on 18 August in Katowice. The conductors were all great at the Church of the Holy Cross, and on 22 names: Krzysztof Penderecki, Mikhail Ewa Podleś and the Polish National Radio and 27 August at the Witold Lutosławski Pletnev, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Marek Moś, Symphony Orchestra in Katowice conducted by Alexander Liebreich at the International Music Polish Radio Concert Studio . Jacek Kaspszyk, Alexander Liebreich. Festival Chopin and his Europe

For the opening – a unique occurrence – Krzysztof Penderecki will conduct Witold Lutosławski’s Musique funèbre and Chopin’s Concerto in E minor, which he will confront with his own piano work – the Resurrection concerto. These pieces will be performed by the Russian National Orchestra, which G rz ęd zi ń ski is perhaps more accustomed to a different repertoire, and the

soloists will be Barry Douglas and Dang Thai Son. Wojciech :

Anna S. Dębowska | Gazeta Wyborcza photo

54 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 55 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN CONCERT AT WARSAW AUTUMN 22 September 2013 | Warsaw | Warsaw Philharmonic Performers: Organisers: ONE OF THE MOST SYMBOLIC MOMENTS OF THE 2013 Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Polish Composers’ Union WARSAW AUTUMN FESTIVAL WAS MOST CERTAINLY Jacek Kaspszyk – conductor Warsaw Philharmonic Krystian Zimerman – piano Institute of Music and Dance KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN’S PERFORMANCE WHEN, 25 YEARS AFTER THE PREMIERE, HE ONCE AGAIN PLAYED WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA

| IMIT | AT THE Warsaw Philharmonic. THIS EVENT GARNERED HUGE INTEREST – TICKETS SOLD OUT WITHIN 10 MINUTES! A nkiersztejn

“It was an interpretation in which even conduct from the piano (not bothered : M arta : the piano’s initial impish and tinkling by Jacek Kaspszyk’s presence on

photo figurations sounded very serious. The the conductor’s podium), as if with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra was his gestures he wanted to tell the given the tough task of keeping up instrumentalists, 'Now you take over with a soloist who demands dialogue, the phrase from me’ or ‘Now give it all partnership, thinking together. Many you’ve got’,” wrote Anna S. Dębowska times yesterday Zimerman tried to in the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

The concert was absolutely exceptional because Zimerman, one of the greatest pianists of our times, very seldom performs in Poland (he lives in Switzerland). He decided to play in Warsaw as a way of celebrating the centenary of Lutosławski’s birth. He made the decision in January in London, after a concert at the Royal Festival Hall where he also played Lutosławski.

Anna S. Dębowska | Gazeta Wyborcza

56 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 57 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE YOUTH ORCHESTRAS UNVEILED AT A WARSAW ESTABLISHED Newly established orchestras: SCHOOL Lutosławski Youth Orchestra International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra 27 September 2013 | Warsaw Silesian Youth Symphony Orchestra Organisers: Staff and students of the Stefan Batory Junior and Senior High School in Warsaw Institute of Music and Dance TO HONOUR THE GREAT COMPOSER IN THE STAFF AND STUDENTS OF WARSAW’S STEFAN BATORY THE JUBILEE YEAR, JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL HONOURED THE AS MANY AS THREE MEMORY OF THE SCHOOL’S FAMOUS ALUMNUS BY UNVEILING YOUTH ORCHESTRAS A COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE ENDOWED BY THE MINISTER WERE FOUNDED: OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE. THE LUTOSŁAWSKI YOUTH ORCHESTRA,

The commemorative plaque was THE INTERNATIONAL unveiled by Warsaw Mayor Hanna LUTOSŁAWSKI YOUTH Gronkiewicz-Waltz and school principal ORCHESTRA AND Barbara Kordas. The plaque was THE SILESIAN YOUTH designed by Professor Adam Myjak, SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. President of the Academy of Fine Arts Lutosławski Youth Orchestra, Suwałki in Warsaw.

The Lutosławski Youth Orchestra is of Witold Lutosławski. These young a unique project on a European scale, musicians also took part in presentations its purpose being to train the most and section classes supervised by world- talented young musicians, provide them famous European musicians, outstanding with prestigious concert experience and teachers as well as experts on the Polish to present orchestra music to a wide composer’s oeuvre. The crowning element audience. The orchestra was founded at of the project in the Lutosławski Year was the initiative of the Jeunesses Musicales a concert of pieces that the participants Poland organisation in association with had prepared during their workshops: the Schools of Music in Suwałki. Young Concerto for Orchestra by Lutosławski and musicians from all over Poland spent The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra over two weeks together taking part in by Britten, whose jubilee was also

ROM SCHOOL ARCHIVES SCHOOL F ROM PHOTO: a summer academy and a national concert celebrated in 2013. tour whose grand finale took place in A similar project came into being as Warsaw. an initiative of the Stanisław Moniuszko The Batory school has had no shortage of great people in Also in celebration of the Schools of Music in Bielsko-Biała, where almost 100 years of its history, both among professors and Lutosławski Year, the International the Silesian Youth Symphony Orchestra alumni. Witold Lutosławski was one of those extraordinary Lutosławski Youth Orchestra was was founded. Its members are the best established by the Mieczysław students of the music schools of Bielsko- people. This world-famous composer, musical genius, and Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin. Biała, Cieszyn, Częstochowa, Gliwice, at the same time very modest man, spent his youthful The orchestra provides opportunities Katowice, Żory and Żywiec. For the for young musicians from Poland and anniversary celebrations, the orchestra years here, at the Batory school. Germany to work together, especially prepared the following pieces by Witold Barbara Kordas | PRINCIPAL of the Stefan Batory JUNIOR on performances of contemporary Lutosławski: Musique funèbre, Concerto for AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Warsaw music, with a special focus on the works Cello and Orchestra and Symphony No. 4.

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Lutos’s music resounded in all its symphonic glory. To Salonen, WARSAW CONCERT the composer of Musique funèbre was a genius – so much faith in every beat could be heard that there could be no doubt about it. OF THE PHILHARMONIA The Philharmonia Orchestra and Salonen are excellent musicians who never for a moment lose their intense contact with the music ORCHESTRA WITH they are playing. ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Anna S. Dębowska | bEETHOVENMAGAZINE.WORDPRESS.COM 13 March 2013 | Warsaw | Warsaw Philharmonic Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor Truls Mørk – cello

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE CELEBRATION OF the LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR IN POLAND TOOK PLACE ON 13 MARCH 2013. ESA-PEKKA SALONEN GAVE HIS FIRST POLISH CONCERT OF LUTOSŁAWSKI’S MUSIC AS PART OF THE WOVEN WORDS SERIES.

The audience completely filling the house and the orchestra. Mørk played the intro at the Warsaw Philharmonic heard the gently and softly, he simply created music following works by Witold Lutosławski: – more and more interesting, of growing Musique funèbre, Concerto for Cello and saturation. When its course started being Orchestra and Symphony No. 4, to which disturbed by the orchestra’s brass, we was added some French music that the became witness to a musical dispute Polish composer loved, represented in the involving tones, dynamics, sounds.” programme by Maurice Ravel’s Mother The idea behind the concert is best Goose. expressed by what Esa-Pekka Salonen Jacek Marczyński wrote of the told the Gazeta Wyborcza daily: “The performance of Concerto for Cello and older I get, the less I think of Lutosławski Orchestra for Dwutygodnik.com that in terms of form and the complicated “Norwegian Truls Mørk, too, interpreted techniques he used, and the more in Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto differently terms of the emotional message of his | IAM | from the performance tradition. Many compositions. I find huge pleasure in performers lend the initial, sharp notes of performing his music. I think that near the ta Sy the solo introduction a heroic character, end of his life Witold also focused more on as if the soloist were preparing for emotions and less on technical solutions, B artek :

a dramatic clash between themselves the mathematical side of music.” photo

60 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 61 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND NEW PUBLICATIONS O F WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S Piosenki taneczne (Dance Songs), written under the MUSIC pseudonym Derwid, is a two-part publication with Publisher: Polish Music Publishing House (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne) 33 light pieces composed in the 1950s and 1960s for the Polish Radio.

POLISH MUSIC PUBLISHING HOUSE (PWM) RELEASES PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED WORKS OF THE GREAT COMPOSER.

Included in the publication are children’s Piosenki taneczne (Dance Songs), songs that the composer wrote in the written under the pseudonym Derwid, “is 1950s, inspired by Polish folklore and a two-part publication with 33 light pieces folk pieces. “In his children’s songs, composed in the 1950s and 1960s for the Lutosławski gave us a series of works Polish Radio. ... These are mainly foxtrots, that have become part of the musical tangos, slow foxtrots and waltzes written The newly published compositions also include mainstream, defined the benchmark, set to poems by Jerzy Miller, Tadeusz Urgacz, Lullaby for Anne-Sophie, written as a wedding gift a high tone for an area often treated in Artur Międzyrzecki and other poets,” purely functional terms,” said great Polish states the publisher’s website. and dedicated to world-famous German violinist musicologist Mieczysław Tomaszewski. Anne-Sophie Mutter.

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NEW CDS WITH LUTOSŁAWSKI’S MUSIC Publishers: BeArTon CD Accord DUX Polskie Nagrania Witold Lutosławski Philharmonic Bauer Zubel Duchnowsk

Plamy na słońcu | Blots on the Sun BAUER ZUBEL DUCHNOWSKI FOR ALMOST EVERY POLISH el Derwid ANDRZEJ AGATA CEZARY Szlagiery Witolda Lutosławskiego pisane pod pseudonimem Derwid | Visions of Witold Lutosławski’s hit songs written under the pseudonym of Derwid

1. Cyrk jedzie | The Travelling Circus (sł./text Tadeusz Urgacz) – 3’31” 2. Jeden przystanek dalej | One stop further (sł./text Jerzy Miller) – 5’07”

RECORD COMPANY, THE i 3. Z lat dziecinnych | Childhood days (sł./text Jerzy Miller) – 6’25”

4. Czarownica | The Witch (sł./text Tadeusz Urgacz) – 3’31” el

5. Miłość i świat | Love and the World (sł./text Eugeniusz Żytomirski) – 5’13” Derwid 6. Złote pantofelki | Golden Slippers (sł./text Adam Hosper) – 3’18” ANNIVERSARY OF THE 7. Daleka podróż | Long-distance Voyage (sł./text Mirosław Łebkowski & Tadeusz Urgacz) – 8’32” 8. Nie oczekuję dziś nikogo | Today I await no one (sł./text Zbigniew Kaszkur & Zbigniew Zapert) – 6’18” 9. W lunaparku | At the Funfair (sł./text Jerzy Miller) – 4’20” 10. Plamy na słońcu | Blots on the Sun (sł./text Jerzy Miller) – 4’49” COMPOSER’S BIRTH 11. Znajdziesz mnie wszędzie | I’ll be around (sł./text Zbigniew Kaszkur & Zbigniew Zapert) – 10’40” TT=62’14”

Wykonawcy i autorzy wszystkich opracowań | Artists and authors of all arrangements: Plamy na słońcu | Blots on the Sun

Agata Zubel – śpiew | vocals BECAME AN OPPORTUNITY Andrzej Bauer – wiolonczela | cello Cezary Duchnowski – fortepian, komputer | piano, computer TO RELEASE HIS WORKS Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego w ramach programu „Lutosławski 2013 – Promesa”, realizowanego przez Instytut Muzyki i Tańca | Subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the „Lutosławski 2013 – Promesa” programme Plamy na słońcu | Blots on the Sun PERFORMED BY THE BEST run by the Institute of Music and Dance

MUSICIANS. ACD 192-2

In its Perły muzyki polskiej [Gems of Polish CD Accord released an interesting item: Some lighter repertoire from the great Polskie Nagrania celebrated the A joint release called Witold Lutosławski Music] series, BeArTon released the el Derwid. Plamy na słońcu [el Derwid. composer’s oeuvre can also be found anniversary of Lutosławski’s birth with Opera Omnia was prepared by the Witold album Witold Lutosławski w SACD vol.2. Sunspots]. “For two years now the on the record Witold Lutosławski. Pieśni an eight-CD set called Centenary Edition. Lutosławski Philharmonic and CD Accord. This is a continuation of recordings of ElettroVoce duo with cellist Andrzej Bauer i kolędy (lieder and Christmas carols) Gold Collection 8 CDs. This is a priceless The three albums published as part of the composer’s selected works in the have been presenting a programme of released by DUX. Performed by mezzo- collection thanks to the unique recordings the Lutosławski Year celebrations are new SACD format. The album includes Derwid’s songs for which they wrote soprano Anna Radziejewska and pianist it contains, including Polish premiere a continuation of the series in which three Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Concerto the arrangements, artistically the most Mariusz Rutkowski, it includes Five Songs performances featuring the greatest other CDs of the composer’s works were for Piano and Orchestra and Symphony No. valuable of all attempts so far. It has been to lyrics by Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Polish artists, in many cases conducted released earlier. 4 played by soloists: pianist Ewa Pobłocka released on CD in the Lutosławski Year. Six Children’s Songs to lyrics by Julian by Witold Lutosławski, and also because and one of the greatest cellists, Robert These are no longer trivial songs but Tuwim, Children’s Songs to lyrics by Janina of the design and production technology. Cohen, who are accompanied by Sinfonia miniatures embracing all kinds of forms: Porazińska and other pieces. DUX also These are gold-plated CDs, which makes Varsovia conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk. from free jazz (Cyrk jedzie) to gothic rock released the album Works for Piano the jubilee collection unique in terms of A concert promoting the album took place (Czarownica), from references to 1960s Solo containing Lutosławski’s Sonata, sound quality. The commentary for the on 23 August 2013 during the Chopin pop songs to quoting from Lutosławski’s Folk Melodies, Bucoliques, Two Etudes, 44-page booklet was written by leading and His Europe Festival at the Warsaw serious output: Symphony No. 3 (Z lat Three Pieces for the Young and Invention musicologist Ludwik Erhardt and the Philharmonic. In her review Dorota dziecinnych), the passacaglia from Concerto performed by Véronique Briel. design is by Jerzy Matuszewski. Szwarcman (Polityka) wrote: “The record is for Orchestra (Plamy na słońcu) or a theme made complete by Symphony No. 4 which, taken from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk, becomes which Lutosławski incorporated into his extraordinarily dramatic. This conductor cello piece Grave (Znajdziesz mnie wszędzie). really handles Lutosławski’s music well.” The sophisticated cello/percussion/piano/ electronic fabric is contrasted with the versatile voice of Agata Zubel,” Dorota Szwarcman wrote about the record in the Polityka weekly.

64 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 65 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND LUTOSŁAWSKI ON POLISH RADIO polskieradio.pl/lutoslawski POLISH RADIO PIK PREPARED A SERIES OF SEVERAL lutoslawskiblizej.pl DOZEN RADIO PROGRAMMES CALLED CLOSER TO LUTOSŁAWSKI ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPOSERS'S BIRTH. POLISh RADIO PROGRAM 2 PREPARED A NUMBER OF RECORDINGS AND PROGRAMMES DEVOTED TO WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI AND BROADCAST IMPORTANT MUSICAL EVENTS IN POLAND (INCL. THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL CHOPIN AND HIS EUROPE) AND ABROAD (INCL. THE BBC PROMS). ALL OF THE RAdIO ENSEMBLES (POLISH NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AMADEUS, POLISH RADIO CHOIr) INCLUDED LUTOSŁAWSKI’S WORKS IN THEIR ANNUAL PROGRAMMES. THE COMPOSER’S WORK WAS ALSO FEATURED IN A NUMBER OF MUSICAL EVENTS. THE POLISH RAdIO ALSO LAUNCHED A SPECIAL WEBSITE DEVOTED TO THE COMPOSER, CALLED WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI ON POLISH RADIO. B roh : I rena : photo

“ ‘It took communism for me to be able to It took communism for me to be able to In the series, younger audiences could have a queen at my place for breakfast...,’ have a queen at my place for breakfast... listen to The Tortoise with text by Robert Desnos quipped Witold Lutosławski as he and music by Witold Lutosławski, while slightly reminisced about the Belgian monarch’s Witold Lutosławski | Polish Radio older listeners could choose Krzysztof Meyer’s visit to Warsaw in 1955” – this is a quote lecture on three periods in Witold Lutosławski’s from one of the radio programmes that oeuvre, an interview with Grzegorz Michalski were available on the radio and on the about his meetings with the composer and Witold Lutosławski on the Polish Radio the celebration of the Lutosławski Year, and portal. This website included recordings a summary based on Chłopecki and his Tombeau of the composer speaking on different dla epoki (Tombeau for an Era). All these radio occasions, reminiscences about him as well programmes are available for listening on the as information about anniversary events. radio station’s website.

66 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 67 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND THE THREECOMPOSERS.PL WEBSITE Website author: National Audiovisual Institute

LAUNCHED BY THE NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL INSTITUTE (NINA), THE THREECOMPOSERS.PL WEBSITE IS DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE OEUVRE OF THE GREATEST POLISH COMPOSERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI, HENRYK MIKOŁAJ GÓRECKI AND KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI.

This is the largest publicly available periods accepted in the literature and database of works by Lutosławski, alphabetical lists of concepts or topics Górecki and Penderecki, comprising related to the composers in question. widely known as well as almost The texts were written by completely forgotten compositions – both musicologists working on a team great concert and stage works and lighter headed by Iwona Lindstedt, PhD hab., output: music written for films, theatres, from the University of Warsaw Institute even songs. Altogether the website of Musicology. The texts on Witold includes more than 320 recordings Lutosławski are by Marcin Krajewski, and 380 descriptions of works. The the output of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki collection is based mainly on Polish Radio is described by Beata Bolesławska- recordings, digitised at NInA’s initiative Lewandowska, PhD, while the life and as part of the CULTURE+ Multiannual work of Krzysztof Penderecki is outlined Programme. by Iwona Lindstedt and Konrad Jedliński. The portal presents an extensive The alphabetical lists were compiled by collection of recordings, each of Marta Tabakiernik. them described in detail, with the In January 2014 the National circumstances and date as well as Audiovisual Institute also released the six- reviews. The descriptions are often disc set Lutosławski / świat [Lutosławski supplemented by remarks from the / World] (5 CDs and 1 DVD) edited by composers themselves and the opinions Adam Suprynowicz, presenting Witold of critics and musicologists. The website Lutosławski’s artistic output in a new and also features chronological lists of inspirational way: in a broader cultural, compositions divided into the creative social and civilizational context.

The music recordings on the website include performances conducted by the composers themselves but also by world- famous Polish and international conductors. Some of them are recordings of world premieres and are thus of great archival and documentary value.

68 LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR 2013 / REPORT 69 SELECTED EVENTS IN POLAND THE BLUE NOTEBOOK DOCUMENTARY

19 December 2013 | Warsaw Director: Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk Producer: AURUM FILM

A NOTEBOOK WITH WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S NOTES K urczuk ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ARTS. THE COMPOSER’S THOUGHTS : K aja : WRITTEN DOWN ON PAPER. THE BLUE NOTEBOOK – THIS IS

photo A NOTEBOOK THE COMPOSER USED AND THE TITLE OF A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIM.

For 25 years Witold Lutosławski used the on contemporary music, became the pages of his blue notebook to jot down pretext for making a documentary about remarks, observations and reflections. He Lutosławski. The scriptwriter and director kept it in 1958-1984, though the entries is Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk. The are irregular and the breaks between premiere took place in Warsaw on 19 them can be up to three years long. December 2013. Reading these notes, however, has turned The Blue Notebook is rich in archival out to be extremely interesting, because television recordings featuring Witold Lutosławski avoided voicing opinions Lutosławski. It also includes many about other people, both publicly and in of the composer’s works in the best private. The notes include critical remarks interpretations, and people who were on contemporary music techniques and connected to the musician in a special trends. The notebook was discovered after way speak about him as well. Holders the composer’s death by his stepson, of scholarships from Lutosławski also Marcin Bogusławski. This notebook, or appear before the camera. rather the composer’s personal thoughts

Lutosławski, a fact seldom mentioned, kept track of both music and contemporary arts in general. He had enormous knowledge of the theatre of the absurd, and was fascinated with the search for a new language in theatre.

Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk | AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR

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Selected performes of Derwid’s works: Rena Rolska, Kalina Jędrusik, Sława Przybylska, Halina Kunicka, Ludmiła Jakubczak and Mieczysław Fogg

IN MARCH 1957 WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI APPLIED TO THE NATIONAL BOARD OF THE ZAIKS ASSOCIATION OF AUTHORS WITH A REQUEST FOR ENDORSEMENT OF HIS NEW PSEUDONYM, DERWID.

This was the name under which he wrote Witolda Lutosławskiego (Songs by Derwid light music. His songs were performed / Witold Lutosławski) with 14 songs in by many singers, including Rena Rolska, their original recordings from the 1950s Kalina Jędrusik, Sława Przybylska, and 1960s. The songs are performed Halina Kunicka, Ludmiła Jakubczak and by the most popular singers of the Mieczysław Fogg. When the secret of time, including Rena Rolska, Ludmiła Derwid’s identity slipped out, Lutosławski Jakubczak, Sława Przybylska with the objected to re-releases and performances Czejand Choir. “We are convinced you will of his songs. It only became possible to appreciate the ease and brilliance with return to this output after his death. which the composer also moved within The celebration of the centenary of music of a slightly lighter kind,” reads the composer’s birth became an excellent a description of the CD on the Polskie opportunity for their reissue. PWM Nagrania website. published a two-part edition of 33 of these “For two years now the ElettroVoce light pieces. Derwid’s (Witold Lutosławski’s) duo with cellist Andrzej Bauer have been Piosenki taneczne (Dance Songs) for voice presenting a programme of Derwid’s songs and piano is an edition of songs written in for which they wrote the arrangements, alarska

the 1950s and 1960s for the Polish Radio. artistically the most valuable of all T Most of them were scattered across attempts so far. It has been released on various anthologies, and two have been CD for the Lutosławski centenary”, wrote O lga :

published here for the first time. The Dorota Szwarcman in the Polityka weekly photo publication includes a separate section about the album el Derwid. Plamy na with the lyrics and a historical note about słońcu (el Derwid. Sunspots). The project Derwid’s songs by Danuta Gwizdalanka. was prepared in 2008 for the 5th Witold th The entire collection was presented during Lutosławski Chain Festival. In 2013 – for These songs that were popular in the mid-20 century were a concert at the Pod Jaszczurami Club in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of performed innumerable times, including during concerts at Cracow on 25 October 2013. the composer’s birth – it was presented Polskie Nagrania, meanwhile, several times, including in London on 21 the Natural History Museum in Drozdowo, concerts organised released a CD called Piosenki Derwida/ March 2013, as well as being recorded. by the Kalinowe Serce Foundation, and at retro dance parties.

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The Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow prepared LUTOSŁAWSKI a competition and exhibition called Chance and Order, which was presented at the Manggha AND VISUAL ARTS Museum of Japanese Art and Technology. 17 November 2013 | Cracow The exhibition’s closing night on 17 November Organiser: 2013 featured a concert of music by Witold Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow Lutosławski, Johann Sebastian Bach and 4 June – 14 October 2013 | Warsaw Ludwig van Beethoven. Organiser: Wojciech Gerson School of Fine Arts in Warsaw

26 November – 17 December 2013 | Warsaw Organiser: Symfonia Artistic Group

WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI’S MUSIC HAS INSPIRED MANY VISUAL ARTISTS, AND EXAMPLES OF SUCH WORKS WERE EXHIBITED AS PART OF THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS.

The Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and behaviours. This project was carried with two exhibitions dedicated to the prepared a competition and exhibition out precisely as a combination and mutual composer. The first, Chain of Sound and called Chance and Order, which was inspiration of visual and musical arts, Colour, was on display at the U Gallery presented at the Manggha Museum multimedia installations, meetings and in Warsaw and at the Świętokrzyska of Japanese Art and Technology. The discussions,” states the website of the art Philharmonic. It comprised works by exhibition’s closing night on 17 November gallery in Łódź where the exhibition was eight artists from the group. The title 2013 featured a concert of music by Witold also shown. is a reference to Lutosławski’s music, Lutosławski, Johann Sebastian Bach As part of the celebration of the which was also the inspiration for the art. and Ludwig van Beethoven. During this centenary of Witold Lutosławski’s birth, Works by 28 artists from the Symfonia gala evening, prizes were presented to art workshops were held at the Wojciech group made up the exhibition Lutosławski the winners of a student competition for Gerson Art School in Warsaw. During – Source of Inspiration. The presentation a work dedicated to the person and oeuvre these workshops, called From Clay to MP4, was accompanied by an extensive of Witold Lutosławski; a meeting between young artists produced works inspired by catalogue, published in three languages: the public and the artists was also held. the great Polish composer’s music. In the Polish, English and French, featuring “The project’s aim is to present the same project, students prepared a stage reproductions of the artists’ works, work of Lutosławski and contemporary show and educational games related to reviews, texts on music and the “synthesis Polish artists in the context of cultural and Lutosławski’s life and work. All of the of arts” that the group promotes. This historical events. It also seems extremely works were presented on 14 October 2013 exhibition was on display at Dom Artysty important for the project to involve at a gala event concluding the project. Plastyka in Warsaw from 26 November to a correspondence of arts, and to show or The Symfonia artistic group 17 December 2013. even provoke different artistic attitudes celebrated the Witold Lutosławski Year

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Central to IMiT’s mission is to work for Mickiewicz Institute – a national cultural institution Jan Krenz became the first president of the Society, composer (lutoslawski.polskieradio.pl) was created in Poland but also internationally, of activities the development of musical and dance culture in aiming to strengthen Polish cultural impact and to followed by Zygmunt Krauze (2003), and Jadwiga and PR2 listeners had a chance to enjoy many Music is one of the main areas of activity for the involving the arts, museums, research, publishing Poland. benefit international cultural exchange. Rappé (2006). Grzegorz Michalski is President since anniversary broadcasts and rebroadcasts of his National Audiovisual Institute. Since its inception and education presenting Fryderyk Chopin in the In its operations the institute focuses on conducting 2009. The present Board is composed of Elżbieta concerts and special programmes. as the Polish Audiovisual Publisher (PWA) it has broad context of European culture. The Institute’s research and analyses exploring dance and music Pursuing its mission, the Adam Mickiewicz Markowska – vice-president, Kamila Stępień- been the organiser of unique music events, helping tasks include running the Fryderyk Chopin communities in Poland; it serves as a source of Institute has been instrumental in presenting Kutera – secretary, Marcin Krajewski – treasurer, As part of our cooperation with the Adam put together and recording important concerts. It Museum in Warsaw and its branch in Żelazowa professional expertise, presenting the minister of Polish culture around the world at leading galleries, and Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek – board Mickiewicz Institute, PR2 broadcast a concert from popularises and disseminates knowledge on music, Wola, organising the Fryderyk Chopin International culture with reports and requests for action. The theatres, clubs and festivals in cooperation with key member. the Warsaw Philharmonic at the inauguration of especially Polish contemporary and avant-garde Piano Competition, the annual Chopin and His institute also runs its own programmes to support partners: Brussels (Bozar, La Monnaie), Edinburgh The Society counts 75 members, including 12 the Lutosławski Year. During the intermission the music and its composers. NInA also conducts Europe festival and international and national the development of musical and dance culture, (Edinburgh International Festival), London honorary members: Mario di Bonaventura, Henri radio audience had an opportunity to listen to an regular publishing activity, recording worthwhile scientific conferences. For the celebration of th along with a variety of educational projects, and has (Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre, National Dutilleux, Heinz Holliger, Kazimierz Kord, Jan interview with Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Whelton trends in Polish music culture. It is the publisher the Lutosławski Year the Institute held the 9 documenting and record keeping tasks. IMiT also Theatre, Whitechapel Gallery, London Design Krenz, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Truls Mørk. of many unique series presenting the latest output Chopin and His Europe International Music takes an active part in the exchange of information Festival), Berlin (Martin Gropius Bau), Madrid Heinrich Schiff, Andrzej Wajda, Antoni Wit, of Polish composers and opera directors. The Festival under the meaningful title From Chopin to and experience taking place between national and (Teatro Real), Moscow (The Pushkin Museum of Krzysztof Zanussi, and Krystian Zimerman. In April 2013, PR2 presenter Aleksander Laskowski Institute The Institute regularly collaborates with Lutosławski. The festival included nine concerts international organisations in the field, organises Fine Arts, Golden Mask Festival) New York City The aim of the Society is to extend its care over presented to Russian listeners for the first time with leading music festivals. It supports audiovisual whose programmes featured Lutosławski’s most workshop trainings and courses, and sponsors (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center) and the artistic and spiritual legacy of Lutosławski recordings from the Polish Radio archive conducted productions popularising contemporary music, it important compositions performed by the greatest academic research. many more. The 4 000 projects carried out by and to propagate his creative output. In realising by the composer himself. runs the muzykotekaszkolna.pl educational web Polish and International musicians. A collaboration During the first four years of its existence, the the Institute so far include major cultural events its aim, the Society benefits from the support service, regularly posts information and comments between the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (NIFC), the institute’s flagship projects have been the 1st Dance in various countries, for example the Polish of the composer’s family – Gabriela and Marcin www.dwojka.polskieradio.pl on Polish music life in its online cultural magazine Institute of Music and Dance (IMiT) and the Witold Congress (April 2011) and the 1st Convention of Year in Israel, POLSKA! YEAR in the UK, and the Bogusławski – as well as that of the Ministry of Dwutygodnik.com, while its ever-expanding www. Lutosławski Society (TWL) yielded a multimedia Polish Music (May 2011). Other crucial achievements International Cultural Programme of the Polish Culture and National Heritage of the Republic ninateka.pl web portal presents exceptionally application called Witold Lutosławski. Guide to have included the release of a comprehensive report EU Presidency. Moreover, the Institute has of Poland, Council of the Capital City of Warsaw, valuable materials on Polish music culture. Warsaw – a walking guide to sites related to Witold on the state of Polish music titled Raport o stanie launched several exciting ongoing projects: private and institutional sponsors. This enables Lutosławski in Warsaw. muzyki polskiej, along with a report summarising the a programme promoting Polish design worldwide, the Society’s publishing of books and sheet music, As part of the celebration of the Witold Lutosławski 1st Dance Congress. It has also managed to prepare the East European Performing Arts Platform, organising festivals and educational concerts, Year the Institute prepared and made available, on www.chopin.nifc.pl a few professional publications in collaboration with the I, CULTURE Orchestra, Polska Music and exhibits, lectures, workshops, providing the the www.trzejkompozytorzy.pl website, a very special different partners. Project Asia to name but a few. inspiration for scholarly studies, collaboration with music collection dedicated to the artistic oeuvre The institute has launched a musical community centres in Poland and abroad and recommending of Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki award, the Coryphaeus of Polish Music (Koryfeusz To find out more about our projects and young artists for the Witold Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki. In January 2014, as Muzyki Polskiej). The awards ceremony takes place explore Polish culture further, please visit us at scholarship founded by the composer’s heirs. a crowning element of the Witold Lutosławski Year, every year on 1 October, marking the International www.culture.pl and subscribe to our newsletter. NInA released a six-disc box set called Lutosławski/ Music Day and IMiT’s inception. The institute www.lutoslawski.org.pl świat [Lutosławski/World] containing previously operates taniecPOLSKA.pl, a news website and www.culture.pl unpublished recordings of the composer’s works. a rich database on dance, and is involved in the organisation of a range of artistic events across the www.nina.gov.pl country.

Throughout 2013, the institute coordinated the celebrations of the Lutosławski Year and operated the culture ministry’s programme Lutosławski 2013 – Promise. www.imit.org.pl

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