Zbigniew Preisner (b. 1955) is Poland's leading film music composer and is considered to be one of the most outstanding film composers of his generation. For many years Preisner enjoyed a close collaboration with the director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz. His scores for Kieslowski's films – Dekalog, The Double Life Of Veronique, Three Colours Blue, Three Colours White and Three Colours Red – have brought him international acclaim.
Preisner has scored many feature films including Hector Babenco's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, Louis Malle's Damage, Luis Mandoki's When A Man Loves A Woman, Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden and Charles Sturridge's Fairytale: A True Story; Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love, Jean Becker's Effroyables jardins; Claude Miller's Un Secret and Max Färberböck's Anonyma.
REQUIEM FOR MY FRIEND
by Zbigniew Preisner
On 4th April 2011 Sony Poland rereleased Zbigniew Preisner's album Requiem For My Friend on CD and for the first time on vinyl. The album has been remastered by Martin Astle and repackaged by COG Design in London, with texts and annotations in Polish and English.
DANSE MACABREby Zbigniew Preisner
Thomas Vinterberg, director of the Dogma feature film 'Festen' and the theatrical version of
the same script, commissioned Zbigniew Preisner to write the score for the sequel to 'Festen', titled 'The Funeral' (Das Begräbnis) which was premiered at the Burgtheater, Vienna, in March 2010.
THREE COLORS TRILOGY: A FILM SCORE GUIDE
Scarecrow Press has published the first major scholarly treatment of Preisner's music, Nicholas Reyland's Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: A Film Score Guide. Reyland analyzes the historical context of the film scores, the life of the composer, the hermeneutic and narrative role of the music within the film, and the musical scoring techniques used for the trilogy.
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MOJE KOLEDY
Moje Koledy, Zbigniew Preisner's album of original Christmas Carols, is now available for the first time on all the major digital platforms iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Spotify and Napster and in six different file formats at http://music.preisner.com.
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THE THREE COLOURS TRILOGY LIVE ONLINE
The Guardian newspaper is currently streaming the Three Colours trilogy live.
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