The concert featured music from Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy, The Decalogue and The Double Life of Veronique, as well as excerpts from Preisner’s Requiem for My Friend, his musical tribute to the late director.
Joining him on Sunday were singer and composer Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance, the Guildhall Session Orchestra and Choir, guitarist Mitch Dalton, Polish soprano Edyta Krzemień, pianist Konrad Mastyło and violinist Radosław Pujanek.
The performance ended with a standing ovation, according to Poland’s Rzeczpospolita daily.
In the finale, Preisner donned a shipyard worker’s helmet in tribute to Poland's Solidarity movement, which emerged in the wake of the 1980 Gdańsk Shipyard strike to challenge totalitarian rule.
In addition to his scores for Kieślowski, Preisner has composed music for other leading European directors and created large-scale concert works.
He is widely regarded as one of the most influential film composers of his generation.
In 2011, British musicologist Nicholas Reyland published a study titled Zbigniew Preisner: The Three Colours Trilogy.
Sunday's concert was part of the UK/Poland Season project organized by the British Council, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw and the Polish Cultural Institute in London.
The UK/Poland Season lasts until November and offers more than 100 events in 40 cities in both countries.
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