Project Hungarica 2
This album explores Hungarian modern music, inspired by the folklore and modernist brilliance of Bartók, Ligeti, and Kurtág, highlighting the richness of Hungary’s unique idiom.
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20 September 2024
Mykola Dyletsky
The album explores Mykola Dyletsky’s works, blending Eastern liturgy with Western compositional techniques, showcasing the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s impact on Ukrainian polyphony.
13 September 2024
Dance of Death
This album explores the dance of death through works by Brahms, Reger, and Bach, offering musical and philosophical reflections on mortality, culture, and transformation.
21 June 2024
Bach Romantique
How would a musician living in the first half of the 19th century interpret a piece written a hundred or so years earlier? Would they try to achieve a rendition as close as possible to the original, or would they rather construct a ‘Neo-baroque edifice’, referring to the architectural practice of that time?
21 June 2024
SZYMANOWSKI/Sobotka/Chór NFM/NFM Filharmonia Wrocławska/Guerrero
An orchestral debut, one of numerous song cycles and finally a short yet massive vocalinstrumental work. Years spanning their dates of inception: twelve.
24 May 2024
Paweł Łukaszewski – The Adoration
Paweł Łukaszewski’s oeuvre is associated primarily with choral music, and his sacred works are recognised and highly regarded around the world. Selected for this album was a sample representative of his compositional style, which eludes unequivocal classification.
17 May 2024
Polish Piano Quintets
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.
22 March 2024
Krzysztof Herdzin – Requiem
In my Requiem, I have consciously omitted the section known as Dies irae. As its title (‘Day of Wrath’) suggests, this sequence is filled with pain and suffering that accompany a bloody, apocalyptic vision of the Last Judgment.
15 March 2024
TRIO – Polish Contemporary Music for Flute, Violin and Cello
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.
9 February 2024
Mr Kleks’ Philharmonic
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.
2 February 2024