Stutschewsky – Cello Works PERFORMERS: Paweł Jabłczyński – double bass Justyna Skoczek – piano RELEASE DATE: 12/2024 CATALOGUE NO. ACD 323 GENRE: chamber music DESCRIPTION TRACKLIST LISTEN DESCRIPTION When preparing my arrangements of Joachim Stutschewsky’s works, I aimed, first and foremost, to convey the emotions that this music stirs up in me. It is not a mere transposition of the musical text to the double bass register or a faithful reproduction of the cello originals. I was very much intent on obtaining unique sounds colours and their shades. My transcriptions are thus a subjective attempt at telling an extremely intimate story in a new, different manner. A passion for music transcription is another thing that I share with Stutschewsky. As in the case of that cello master, my first experiences in this field come from the time of my studies in the legendary Prof. Tadeusz Górny’s double bass class at Wrocław’s Karol Lipiński Academy of Music. Extending the instrument’s repertoire through arrangements was the subject of my…

Wajnberg (Weinberg) – String Music PERFORMERS: Szymon Krzeszowiec – violin Bartłomiej Nizioł – violin [1–3] Elżbieta Mrożek-Loska – viola [11–14] Adam Krzeszowiec – cello [11–14] RELEASE DATE: 12/2024 CATALOGUE NO. ACD 344 GENRE: chamber music DESCRIPTION TRACKLIST LISTEN DESCRIPTION Violinists Szymon Krzeszowiec and Bartłomiej Nizioł, violist Elżbieta Mrożek-Loska and cellist Adam Krzeszowiec selected chamber works by Mieczysław Wajnberg for the program of their latest album. The disc includes two Sonatas (for Violin Solo and for Two Violins) and world premiere recording of the complete four-movement version of the Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 48. „All the works contained on this album were composed in Moscow or its environs and premiered there. One might almost say it was a testament to the vitality of Russian musical culture, except that neither the composer nor any of his ‘creative inspirers’ were Russian. Weinberg was a Pole and a Jew, a refugee from Warsaw. The violinists were Jews from Ukraine, primarily connected with the city of Odessa, where Weinberg’s…

Project Hungarica 2 PERFORMERS: Szymon Krzeszowiec – violin [1–47, 50] Marcin Markowicz – violin [1–46, 50] Filip Krzeszowiec – cello [47–50] Adam Krzeszowiec – cello [50] Anna Krzeszowiec – celesta [50] RELEASE DATE: 9/2024 CATALOGUE NO. ACD 336 GENRE: chamber music DESCRIPTION TRACKLIST LISTEN DESCRIPTION Hungarian modern music may be represented in the form of a vast and clearly distinguishable mountain range, whose three main summits bear the names of Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and György Kurtág. These three took music in their country to previously unknown heights. The characteristic Hungarian musical idiom had in fact already found its way into the Viennese classics’ style, reaching the peak of its popularity in the works of Franz (Ferenc) Liszt and Johannes Brahms. It is, however, only in the modern sound language that composers have succeeded in assimilating Hungarian music without stylistic ‘censorship’, in bringing out its unruly, archaic modalities and sharp rhythms (whose Polish counterparts can only be found in the music of the Tatra highlanders, inhabiting the former…

Six composers – seven quintets – four pianists – one quartet. The latest double-CD album of the Silesian Quartet contains compositions by Aleksander Lasoń, Krzysztof Meyer, Zbigniew Bargielski, Bettina Skrzypczak and Bartosz Witkowski.

The composers of the works on this album are distinguished and highly regarded Polish composers: Paweł Szymański, Aleksander Nowak, Rafał Augustyn, Krzysztof Meyer, Zbigniew Bargielski, and Elżbieta Sikora.

Works of art always function in contexts: of their own genre, its tradition, the composer’s work or the accepted aesthetics of the time. In the case of these three compositions, also in the context of the Kwartesencja festival, where they were first performed.

For the composer, who belongs to the generation of Mr Kleks’ ‘pupils’, the songs recorded on this album and arranged in the form of a suite are a kind of orchestral fantasy, into which well-known melodies sung by a children’s choir and an ‘adult’ mixed choir are only woven.

The latest Warsaw Philharmonic release, Szymanowski Reimagined, takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the musical landscapes of Karol Szymanowski, rendered in a new orchestral guise.

The album you are holding in your hands includes transcriptions of works by a composer close to our hearts.