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***So-called “absent” works, evidence of their creators’ critical approach and lack of consent to political pressure under which they had to function. These compositions to various degrees allude to then-current events but also point to the broader historical and humanistic context. Four by Eugeniusz Rudnik: Lesson II; Elegy to the Victims of War; Epitaph of Stones; Guillotine DG; plus The Pole Reports from Space (an excerpt from a radio play with music by Rudnik). Krzysztof Penderecki’s Death Brigade; fragment of the 1962 Radio Moscow program W mirie nowych zwukow. 20th Anniversary of the Polish Workers Party by Józef Patkowski, Rudnik, and Krzysztof Szlifirski. Two by Elzbieta Sikora: Rhapsody for the Death of the Republic; Janek Wisniewski-December-Poland. Bohdan Mazurek’s Epitaph on the Death of Jan Palach (2nd version). Maria Pokrzywinska’s Reglamentoso. Two by Krzysztof Knittel: Dorikos; Glückspavillon for Cathy. Thirty-two-page booklet. Sponsored by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and Capital City of Warsaw Municipal Office.