Today we would call them institutions operating in the art market. It was in salons that new works were commented upon, artists – judged, and leading trends in music were established.
Michał Szymanowski - one of the most promising Polish pianists of the young generation, Michał Karol Szymanowski was born in 1988 in Bydgoszcz into a musical family.
The compositions selected for this CD by the outstanding pianist Magdalena Lisak, rranged chronologically, illustrate the development and changes in the style of a composer who never aimed to discover new worlds in music, but still left a lasting musical legacy worthy of his own extraordinary personality.
The father of the pianoforte– says the inscription on Muzio Clementi’s tombstone in Westminster Abbey.
There exists (…) a certain instrument, that is to say: a musical medium of realization – through which music, while becoming audible to the sense of hearing, does so in a quasi non-sensory
The selection of compositions on this CD, and the order in which they appear, form a clear progression: from works inspired by Chopin to the source of their inspiration.
In an interview of 2005, conducted by the recently departed first lady of Polish journalism, Teresa Torańska, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń modestly suggested that “the world can very well do without my playing.”
The present album gathers all currently extant symphonic poems of Eugeniusz Morawski.
This was one of the sensations of the 16th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
It was with genuine joy that I greeted the news of Michał Szymanowski’s first CD release. And so – here it is, for us to listen to, judge and exchange opinions.