Polish recordings win int’l awards
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
17.01.2019 10:52
A CD with four symphonies by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, recorded by Poland's Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra for ECM, has won the 2019 International Classical Music Award (ICMA) in the “contemporary music” category.
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Meanwhile, a CD entitled 17th-Century Sacred Music in Wrocław, recorded by the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Palatino and the Gli Angeli Genève choral ensemble under Stephan MacLeod received the accolade in the “Baroque vocal music” category.
Released on the Claves label, the CD contains a selection of pieces from the musical archives of the south-western Polish city of Wrocław.
Poland’s Krzysztof Warlikowski directed a double-bill of Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine with the Paris Opera Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
The live recording of the production has received the International Classical Music Award in the “video performance” category.
The awards ceremony and a gala concert will take place in Lucerne, Switzerland, on May 10.
(mk/gs)