This album showcases Józef Elsner’s chamber works, highlighting his mastery of the Viennese style, contributions to the ‘Polish style’, and skill as a violinist.
The album highlights the diversity of Neoclassicism and tonality in North American music, with the trumpet bridging traditions from Ives and Copland to modern composers.
This album highlights the unique sound of the double bass in original transcriptions of Joachim Stutschewsky’s works, offering an intimate and fresh interpretation of cello music.
This album features Mieczysław Weinberg’s chamber works, including two Sonatas and the premiere recording of Trio Op. 48, blending Polish-Jewish roots with Moscow’s musical heritage.
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.
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.