Zbigniew Preisner (Leading film music composer, Lisa Gerrard). Part II - Don't forget to subscribe.

This is my conversation with Zbigniew Preisner. It took place on 10/8/22 from his home in Poland.
The newest album of Zbigniew Preisner and Lisa Gerrard called It's Not Too Late will be released on October 14th on CD and on all major digital platforms.
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 No end, 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, Foolish heart, My Hindu Friend, Louis Malle’s Damage, Luis Mandoki’s When A Man Loves A Woman, Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa, Olivier Olivier, The Secret Garden, Charles Sturridge’s Fairytale: A True Story, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Jean Becker’s Eliza, Effroyables jardins, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen The Island on Bird Street, Claude Miller’s Un Secret, Max Färberböck’s Anonyma, Kriszta Deak's Aglaja. Camilo Cavalcante’s The History of Eternity, Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Angelica, Fernando Trueba’s Queen of Spain, Forgotten we'll be, Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen’s Valley of Shadows, Feng Mei's Love song 1980.
Requiem for My Friend, Preisner’s first large-scale work specially written for recording and live performance, is dedicated to the memory of Krzysztof Kieslowski. Originally released on Erato Disques (Warner Classics) in October 1998, the work received its world premiere at the Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, on the 1st October 1998. The album has been rereleased on CD and vinyl by Sony Poland.
Preisner’s second large-scale work is Silence, Night and Dreams, for orchestra, choir and soloists, based on texts from the Book of Job. The recording features the voice of Teresa Salgueiro (from Madredeus) and was released worldwide on EMI Classics in 2007. The world premiere of the work took place on 4th September 2007 in the Herodion Theatre on the Acropolis in Athens.
Other CD releases include 10 Easy Pieces for Piano, Moje Koledy, Preisner’s Voices and Danse Macabre, W poszukiwaniu dróg Stare i nowe kolędy, 2016 Dokąd?, Twilight. In 2005, Preisner was commissioned by David Gilmour to arrange nine of songs on his album On An Island for a 40-piece string orchestra. The album was released worldwide in 2006 and Preisner conducted the string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra in these arrangements at the concert on Gilmour's 2006 tour, at the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland. A live recording and film were made of the event and versions of these have been released in several formats and packages under the title Live In Gdansk. Gilmour and Preisner met again on the occasion of the work on Gilmour’s album Rattle That Lock, released in 2015. Zbigniew Preisner conducted the NFM Orchestra during Gilmour’s concert in Wroclaw in June 2016.