Polish music featured at BBC Proms
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
11.07.2013 14:02
UK annual summer music banquet, the BBC Proms will be packed with Polish music this year.
The Proms: BBC Proms/Facebook
The event, which begins on Friday at London's Royal Albert Hall, will see performances of works by composers including Karol Szymanowski, Henryk Gorecki, Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutoslawski, among others.
“This means that Polish music is starting to live another life in the world at large,” musicologist and journalist Marcin Majchrowski reports from London for Polish Radio.
Besides the aforementioned composers, noted European ensembles will also be getting to grips with works that are even less familiar to international audiences, including forays into Polish medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music.
Polish Radio will be transmitting a number of concerts throughout the eight-week event.
The Proms were launched in 1895, and have grown to become one of the most popular musical events in the UK.
Tomorrow's opening night concert at the Royal Albert Hall includes a performance of Witold Lutoslawski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini. In Poland, 2013 has been declared an official Lutoslawski year, marking the 100th annivesary of the composer's birth. (nh)