Polish Music for Cello and Orchestra
For its new recording project, the Warsaw Philharmonic, with its music and artistic director Andrzej Boreyko, invited the Polish cello virtuoso Marcin Zdunik.
For its new recording project, the Warsaw Philharmonic, with its music and artistic director Andrzej Boreyko, invited the Polish cello virtuoso Marcin Zdunik.
The Silesian Quartet’s most recent release of Mieczysław Wajnberg’s complete chamber works with string quartet under the CD Accord label.
String Quartet No. 5 was written in the autumn of 1945 and was performed on 17 May 1947 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it was dedicated.
In her interpretation of Telemann’s Fantasias, Małgorzata Malke takes her listeners on a journey to 18th- century Poland, a land which Telemann often visited, drawing inspiration from Polish folk music.
The CD was recorded on 19th March 2021 in the Main Hall of the Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music during a concert held as part of 75 Years of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic.
Completorium, presented in this recording, is one of the most extensive and well-known works by Gorczycki. It is a musical setting of selected parts of the compline.
The four strongly contrasting pieces form a compact cycle, expressive in texture, harmony and intense lyricism, subtly tinged with folklore.
In his final composition, the “Quasi-Requiem” Libera me, written in the Autumn of 2018, Giya Kancheli bypassed the Latin Responsory from the Catholic Office of the Dead
The album in your hands is an invitation to create such a personal, intimate relationship with music. You can take it with you for a walk in the forest or on a long journey.
The album that you will hear in a moment clearly illustrates this fact as it offers an introduction to great Polish figures of 20th-century musical culture who were familiar with both professions.