Multimedia Chronicle of the 59th Warsaw Autumn

International Festival of Contemporary Music

DVD 1 (polmic 124)

Salvatore Sciarrino

Luci mie traditrici (1996-1998) Opera in two acts to a libretto by Salvatore Sciarrino after Il tradimento per l’onore by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

CD 1 (polmic 125)

Salvatore Sciarrino

1) Infinito nero (1998) Ecstasy in one act for voice and eight instruments to a libretto by Salvatore Sciarrino after the writings of Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi; 2) Introduzione all’oscuro (1981) for twelve instruments; 3) Shadow of Sound (2005) for orchestra

CD 2 (polmic 126)

1) Philippe Hurel Tour à tour II – La rose des vents (2015) for orchestra and electronics; 2) Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil Rain Forest. Concerto for two flutes and orchestra (2013); 3-5) Zofia Dowgiałło Composition with Motion Background (2010, rev. 2015) for orchestra

CD 3 (polmic 127)

1) Brigitta Muntendorf Key of Presence (2014-2015) for two pianos, live electronics and tape; 2) Wojciech Błażejczyk Trash Music (2014) for voice, instrumental ensemble and objectophones; 3) Marcin Bortnowski Expectancy (2016)

for cello and chamber orchestra

CD 4 (polmic 128)

1-5) Steven Kazuo Takasugi Sideshow (2009-2015) for amplified octet and electronic playback in five movements to words by Karl Kraus; 6) Piotr Peszat The Message (2016) for two pianos, sampler, audio playback and video

CD 5 (polmic 129) Fringe events – young composers’ carte blanche

1) Artur Słotwiński Anhedonia (2016) for string quartet; 2) Anna Porzyc String Quartet No. 2 (2013-2014); 3) Martyna Kosecka Kaléō (2015) for string quartet; 4) Teoniki Rożynek T.R.I.P. (2014) electronic music; 5) Alina Kubik In a Blink (2016) electronic music; 6) Ryszard Lubieniecki Beaute Parfaite. After Antonello da Caserta (noise version, 2015) electronic music

DVD 2 (polmic 130)

1) Aaron S Collective (Sławomir Wojciechowski, Paweł Krzaczkowski, Krzysztof Cybulski, Norman Leto) Aaron S (2015-2016); 2) Marta Śniady Meme Opera (2016) for voice, instrumental ensemble and visualisations; 3) Jarosław Siwiński Silent Fish (2016) Microopera for children