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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LA DOUBLE VIE DE VERONIQUE CD RERELEASED

LA DOUBLE VIE DE VERONIQUE, ALBUM REISSUE ON CD
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DOUBLE PLATINUM FOR PREISNER'S VOICES ALBUM

Preisner's Voices, released by Sony Poland at the end of 2010, has now achieved Double Platinum sales in Poland.
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'LACRIMOSA' IS FEATURED IN PALME D'OR WINNER 'THE TREE OF LIFE'

Preisner's 'Lacrimosa' from Requiem for my friend is featured in the soundtrack of Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life', winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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REQUIEM FOR MY FRIEND NOW AVAILABLE AS A DOWNLOAD

Zbigniew Preisner's album Requiem for my friend is now available as a download from music.preisner.com
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REQUIEM FOR MY FRIEND, ALBUM REISSUE ON CD AND VINYL

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...
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FESTIVAL DE CINEMA EUROPEEN DES ARCS

Zbigniew Preisner was a member of the jury at Festival de Cinema Europeen des Arcs from 11th to 18th December 2010. The President of the jury was Thomas Vinterberg, with whom Preisner has collaborated on the film It's All About Love and...
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PREISNER'S VOICES

Sony Poland has released Preisner's Voices, a new 3-CD album comprising two new compilation albums: Preisner-Towarnicka - featuring film and concert music composed by Zbigniew Preisner for the unique voice of soprano Elzbieta Towarnicka; and...
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MOJE KOLEDY

Sony Poland has also released Moje Koledy, Zbigniew Preisner's album of original Christmas Carols.
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PREISNER'S MUSIC FOR THOMAS VINTERBERG'S PLAY 'THE FUNERAL' RELEASED ON CD AND DOWNLOAD

Zbigniew Preisner has compiled a CD titled Danse Macabre from the music he recently composed and produced for the play Das Begrabnis (The Funeral).
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PREISNER CONCERT IN ATHENS, SUNDAY 30TH MAY 2010

Zbigniew Preisner presented an evening of his film and theatre music at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall on Sunday 30th May 2010.
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OFF PLUS CAMERA 10 FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA

Zbigniew Preisner was once again chairman of the jury at the International Dramatic Competition for the Krakow Film Award.
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MUSIC FOR THOMAS VINTERBERG'S NEW PLAY

Das Begrabnis (The Funeral), the new play by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov, was premiered to critical acclaim at the Burgtheater Vienna on 6th March 2010 and features a specially recorded score by Zbigniew Preisner.
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OFF PLUS CAMERA09 FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA

Zbigniew Preisner was chairman of the jury at the International Dramatic Competition for the Krakow Film Award.
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ANTALYA FILM FESTIVAL 2008

Zbigniew Preisner was a member of the jury at the prestigious international Eurasia film festival, which took place from 10th to 19th October in Antalya, Turkey.
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ANONYMA

Zbigniew Preisner has scored Anonyma, a German-Polish co-production, directed and scripted by Max Frberbck.
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UN SECRET

Preisner has scored Un Secret, a dramatic new film set in France before, during and after the second world war.
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SILENCE, NIGHT & DREAMS

The world premiere of Silence, Night & Dreams took place in Athens on 4th September 2007 in the historic amphitheatre of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the Acropolis. Zbigniew Preisner conducted the Contemporary Music Orchestra of ERT (Greek Radio and Television), the Chorus of Athens University (director, Nikos Maliaras) with singers Teresa Salgueiro and Thomas Cully and a group of Polish, Swedish and English instrumental soloists.
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MENACHEM & FRED

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SPORTSMAN OF THE CENTURY

Preisner has scored the feature film Sportsman Of The Century, a Dutch-German-Swedish co-production, directed by Mischa Alexander.
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PREISNER AND GILMOUR

The last concert on David Gilmour's 2006 Summer Tour was held in front of 50,000 people at the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, at the request of the Gdansk Foundation.
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DAVID GILMOUR / ON AN ISLAND

The new album by David Gilmour On An Island features orchestrations by Zbigniew Preisner on nine of the ten tracks.
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THE PIANO COLLECTION

The Piano Collection is the title of a new book containing 24 piano solo transcriptions of Zbigniew Preisner's best-loved themes from the music for films such as the Three Colours Trilogy, La Double Vie de Veronique, Fairytale and The Secret Garden.
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LA DOUBLE VIE DE VERONIQUE

13th March 2006 was the tenth anniversary of the death of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
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REQUIEM PERFORMANCES

The US premiere of Requiem for my friend took place in the Sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, as part of the church's 175th Anniversary.
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THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY

Preisner has scored the feature film The Beautiful Country. Binh, a young Vietnamese man, makes an extraordinary six-month journey from his village, 300 miles south of Saigon, all the way to a farm in Texas, in search of his long lost GI father.
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IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE

Preisner has scored Thomas Vinterberg's film It's All About Love Released in continental Europe during 2003, the UK in 2004 and the US in 2005.
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SUPERTEX

Preisner has scored Supertex, a German-Dutch co-production, directed by Jan Schutte.
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EFFROYABLES JARDINS

In 2003 Preisner composed the score for Effroyables jardins, directed by Jean Becker, for whom Preisner also scored Elisa in 1995.
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PREISNER-KIESLOWSKI

Preisner-Kieslowski, a new compilation of music composed and recorded by Zbigniew Preisner for Kieslowski's films, was released in France in November 2003, on MK2 Music.
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