Some background on Kochanowski and the creation of his Treny. Dawn Upshaw discusses the text and her initial impressions of the work in general.
Treny will be premiered at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on November 2, 2008.
Treny is a Terezin Chamber Music Foundation commission.Links of interest:
Dawn Upshaw
Jan Kochanowski
Polish Renaissance
Mikołaj_Gomółka (Composer and contemporary of Kochanowski. His Melodie na psałterz polski set Kochanowski's translations of the Psalms to music. An excerpt plays in the background during the vidcast)
Czarnolas
Sigismund II Augustus
Treny
A translation of Tren 6 by Adam Czerniawski
Order a copy of the English translation of Treny by Adam Czerniawski
