Anna Wandtke, Aneta Łukaszewicz Poldowski Creations

In todays world there are few stereotypes concerning string instruments. Contrabasses, due to their size, are associated with small range of motion and peculiarly understood coarseness. In the music community there are thousands of jokes concerning violas and viola players. Traditionally, the most noble roles are attributed to cello and violin. The first of the abovementioned instruments is perceived as a romantic and passionate instrument; the violin is seen as mesmerizing and calls to mind brilliant virtuosos with technical skills. This release disproves some of those stereotypes. Anna Wandtke, an outstanding violinist, proves that violin can beautifully sing and talk about passions, feelings, and emotions without resigning from showing a perfect technique with a pinch of spectacularity. All of these elements produce a perfectly composed whole.

In todays world there are few stereotypes concerning string instruments. Contrabasses, due to their size, are associated with small range of motion and peculiarly understood coarseness. In the music community there are thousands of jokes concerning violas and viola players. Traditionally, the most noble roles are attributed to cello and violin. The first of the abovementioned instruments is perceived as a romantic and passionate instrument; the violin is seen as mesmerizing and calls to mind brilliant virtuosos with technical skills. This release disproves some of those stereotypes.

The Icelandic chamber music recorded on the album by Agnieszka Panasiuk (piano) together with Anna Wandtke (violin) and Pawel Panasiuk (cello) is characterized by varied expression, high emotional load and lyricism.

“ … (an) exquisite and expressive voice, capable of a wide dynamic range from the most delicate sotto voce pianissimos to full-voiced fortissimo coloratura passages.” – Monterey Herald

Largely neglected following her death, the music of Poldowski – alias of Irène Régine Wieniawska – is brought back to life in this re-imagining by David Jackson, director of the Paris-based chamber group Ensemble 1904. Featuring twenty-two settings of poems by the nineteenth-century French poet Paul Verlaine, the ensemble makes its recording debut with this alluring and compelling programme of song. Poldowski’s complete Verlaine settings are united for the first time in vivid arrangements by David Jackson inspired by the composer herself, known to have made chamber versions of her own songs. Included is the world premiere of the recently rediscovered Nous Deux.

Progress within many areas of Artificial Intelligence, including natural language processing (NLP), vision and expert systems, depends heavily on the proper formalization of common- sense reasoning. A fundamental of this kind of reasoning is its nonmonotonicity, that is its ability to draw conclusions which can be invalidated by new information.

Twenty -three -year -old Aneta committed suicide with thirteen shots with a knife. No, it is not a topic of horror science fiction, but the official conclusion of the Czech police. And also the story of perhaps the most controversial criminal case of modern history, whose background filmmakers documented five years. What role did the love triangle, mafia, drugs and mysterious Lebanon played in the case? For years, both mother Aneta and the public receive the answer to these questions, the filmmakers in the studio built an exact copy of the crime scene. At this point there was a reconstruction with the participation of leading world experts in the field of psychology, toxicology, pathology and biomechanics. Will the conclusions of the British, Canadian, American and French experts correspond to those to whom the Czech police arrived? Will the victim's mother see the truth after ten years?