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Cognac from Mrs Solecka - Read morePenderecki’s enterprising mother-in-law proved resourceful as the supervisor of the manor’s renovation.
It’s a pity I wasn’t enough of a Malczewski fan in those days... A Malczewski at the Price of a Wardrobe - Read more
Drafting New Music on the Beach - Read moreFor five decades the Penderecki couple spent their holidays at the seaside, where their love and music was born.
This was my life’s most important journey... A Journey to Italy - Read more
A Spontaneous Agnus Dei - Read moreSome of Penderecki’s works entered into a stormy dialogue with politics and history.
Chagall, Picasso, or Dalí? - Read morePenderecki’s visit to the Catalan surrealist painter went down in family history.
The Elopement of Stefania Szylkiewicz - Read moreElopements and clandestine weddings are part of this family’s dramatic history.
All of Bergers’ Trees - Read moreFrom which of his ancestors did Penderecki inherit his passion for trees?
Winnetou’s Adventures in German - Read morePenderecki learned German from poetry and adventure novels.
All of Malczewski Landscapes - Read moreThe Lusławice Manor is immediately recognisable in Malczewski’s paintings.
Near the Manor House - Read moreThe oldest part of the park, and a place of sanctuary, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
The oldest building in the park, boasting a rich history and numerous secrets.
The Storage House - Read moreThe Italian Garden - Read morePenderecki’s personal homage to the Renaissance art of Italian gardens.
The English Landscape Park - Read moreHow to maintain creative balance between nature and culture in a park?
The Rose Garden - Read moreA sunlit garden full of blooming roses is an ideal place to relax.
The Mazes - Read moreCan you find your way out of the great hornbeam maze?
The Lower Park - Read moreThe least structured and most mysterious part of the park, at the foot of the slope behind the manor house.
Alleys and Lines of Trees - Read moreThey map out the park’s composition, leading the guests from one key feature to another.
The Tree Collections - Read morePenderecki was a passionate collector from his youth, but the objects of his passion changed.
Here is a country house like those from Mickiewicz’s poems and Malczewski’s paintings.
The Manor House - Read more
Like the outhouse and the bowers, this building was designed by Penderecki himself.
The Chapel - Read more
A tomb among the ancient trees, commemorating the Italian theologist Socinus.
The Mausoleum - Read more
They invite visitors to rest and admire the views. One is associated with Penderecki’s mother-in-law.
The Bowers - Read more
The most original of these is the red bridge in the Japanese garden.
The Bridges - Read moreMy attitude is best defined by the words of a poet... Alchemical Distillation - Read more
I have decided to ‘conclude a pact of happiness with nature.’ A Pact of Happiness with Nature - Read more
I am in fact building up a dendrological collection, and trying... Trees Like Postal Stamps - Read more
A park is like a music score: a fugato in one place, monophonic texture in another. A Park Like a Score - Read more
In the ruins of a 13th-century church... The Cobweb of the Maze - Read more
It was my dream to obtain a specimen of a unique tree species, Davidia involucrata... Kerchiefs in a Tree - Read more
Seeing a beautiful tree gives me a happy thrill... And Still It’s Growing - Read more
My great grandfather... My Great Grandpa the Forester - Read more
One of the composer’s favourite trees, with distinctive leaves and flowers.
American tulip tre - Read more
A species selected by the composer for a prestigious spot in front of the manor.
Maidenhair tree, gingko - Read more
This exotic tree blossomed in the spring to bid the composer farewell.
The dove tree - Read more
One of the composer’s favourites, distinguished by remarkable roots.
Bald cypress - Read more
Highly valued for its tasty fruit and decorative hanging flowers.
Sweet chestnuts - Read more
Queen of the European landscapes, extolled by poets and composers.
Small-leaved lime - Read more
The tree that grows near the manor is known from paintings done in Lusławice.
Eastern white pine - Read more
Lusławice park boasts a variety of this shrub which does not grow anywhere else.
Eastern sweetshrub - Read more
Magnolias are the pride of every garden; how many are there in Lusławice?
Magnolia - Read more
Krzysztof Penderecki passionately collected trees of this genus in his park.
Maples - Read moreProfessor Tumiłowicz Is Given a Tough Nut to Crack - Read moreThe Lusławice Tree Collection was supervised by the head of the WULS-SGGW Arboretum in Rogów.
Each tree has (...) its own place in my park... Composing with an Unknown - Read more
Saplings in Instrument Cases - Read moreDid Penderecki engage in smuggling? The soil of Lusławice Park knows the answer.
The Misfortunes of Fausto Sozzini - Read moreHow did the Italian freethinker, theologian and religious reformer end up in a Polish village?
This decorative little tree is a major feature of the Japanese garden.
Japanese stewartia - Read more
It has distinctive spiny stems, deep-lobed leaves and melliferous flowers.
Castor aralia - Read more
Will the 40-year-old specimen from Lusławice grow taller than its neighbours and live to be a few thousand years old?
Giant sequoia - Read more
The king of Polish forests is represented in Lusławice park by dozens of species and varieties.
Oaks - Read moreStabat Mater - Read moreDid Krzysztof Penderecki write the whole during one afternoon on a Baltic beach?
The Avant-Garde on the Danube - Read moreHow the Polish composer spread his wings in a little German town?
Three Pieces in Old Style: Aria - Read moreJewels of the Rococo taken out of the soundtrack of a cinematic masterpiece.
St. Luke Passion: Miserere - Read moreMeasuring up to Bach himself: Impudence, courage, or both?
Kubrick [...] approached me with a request to let him illustrate his movie... Kubrick’s Hot Theme - Read more
Violin Concerto No. 1 - Read moreThis vast composition, Romantic in spirit, proved a breakthrough in the composer’s output.
Symphony No.8 mainly grew out of my fascination with Polish and German poetry... A Symphony for Trees - Read more
Polish Requiem: Agnus Dei - Read moreOne of the first episodes of Penderecki’s musical commentary on Polish history.
Polish and American Horrors - Read morePenderecki’s early works were employed to create a sense of dread… in Hollywood movies.
Viola Concerto: part no. 6 (Vivo) - Read moreThis work, abounding in sharp contrasts, was written in Lusławice park in the spring.
Song of Cherubim - Read moreAnother proof of the composer’s fascination with Eastern Orthodox music and rite.
The dissident religious tradition was one of the decisive factors Infidels in Lusławice - Read more
Sinfonietta No.2: movement I, Notturno – Adagio - Read moreCan the season of the year influence the style of a music composition? And in what ways?
Composing the garden has, for me, much in common with composing a musical work... Composing the Garden - Read more
Symphony No. 7 ‘Seven Gates of Jerusalem’: De profundis - Read morePenderecki’s cantata-style tribute to Jerusalem for the 3000th anniversary of the city’s foundation.
Symphony No.8 ‘Lieder der Vergänglichkeit’, Song No. 4, Bei einer Linde - Read moreLong-planned by the composer, this symphony is dedicated to… trees.
I have turned to the form of the symphony in order to absorb and process the experience of our century... The Symphony as an Ark - Read more
The Speckled Duck - Read morePenderecki and music for children? This little piece is an exception that contradicts stereotypes.
It is an illusion that one can hide in a labyrinth... In Pyjamas to the Park - Read more
Horn Concerto ‘Winterreise’ - Read moreFor Krzysztof Penderecki’s ancestors, winter was the hunting season.
"All that Penderecki wrote came genuinely from his heart,” claims Anne-Sophie Mutter, the dedicatee of Violin Concerto No. 2 ‘Metamorphoses’. Thanks to the gardens and trees, “we will celebrate him […] also as a guardian of our habitat” in the age of global warming, she emphasises.
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