This unparalleled composition of Ponce is virtually an homage to the guitar and brings out the utmost multiplicity of colours. Nonetheless, a purging melancholy lingers over the whole work.
Another debut in CD Accord’s catalogue. This time a live recording of a concert played by a pretty 17-year-old Polish-born pianist from Canada, Berenika Zakrzewski. The event took place on 19 September 2000 at the Kraków Philharmonic.
This is a recording of an unusual concert held in May 1999 at the Warsaw Grand Theatre to celebrate the Chopin Year. The star was the great Martha Argerich, one of the most prominent artists of this century.
If Wertheimer hadn’t walked past room thirty--three on the second floor of the Mozarteum twenty-eight years ago, precisely at four in the afternoon, he wouldn’t have hanged himself twenty-eight years later in Zizers bei Chur, I thought.
Although seldom performed and little known to the public, religious songs are an important part of Stanisław Moniuszko’s output.
The album is a recording of a concert (8 March 2002) with which Antoni Wit began his management of the National Philharmonic. The programme included pieces by Lutosławski, Meyer and Penderecki.
Viva Moniuszko, Viva Verdi is a excellent present for all lovers of choral opera music. It is a collection of the most beautiful choruses performed by the soloists and choir of the National Opera under Jacek Kaspszyk.
The collection contains both very popular items (like The Dream) and true small masterpieces (like the scene of a child falling asleep – Kind im Einschlummern). Claude Debussy in his collection of six miniatures Children's Corner takes a similar look. However, rather than idealizing the world, he watches it closely from the perspective of his small daughter Chouchou's regular playmate.
Such too are the Concertos on this recording; particularly the Concerto in C, which is among the most developed in terms of form and structure.
Among others, these were the works to be performed in the outdoor, drawing−rooms and palaces. Such situations had not much in common with an atmosphere of the present day concerts.