Płyty

Stopka: 1. With Your Fair Eyes
2. Now Hath My Life
3. O Night, O Sweet Though Sombre
4. Orlando Furioso to Don Quixote of La Mancha
5. Solisdan to Don Quixote of La Mancha
6. Monicongo, Academician of Argamasilla, on the Sepulture of Don Quixote
7. Since She Left
8. The Warsaw Sparrows
9. Non è vero
10. The Eyes of Green Lakes
11. At the Fair
12. The Sleigh Ride
13. Sighs
14. One View of the Sea
15. Green Water
16. Fish
17. The Corsair
18. To the Sadly Soft Edge of the Waters
19. Ruin of Humankind
20. Father of Sweet Repose

Perf.: Tomasz Konieczny (bas-baritone), Lech Napierała (piano).

Total time: 50'

* Anaklasis (ANA010), 2020

"Singing and vocal music have accompanied me since my early childhood" – says Romuald Twardowski, born in 1930 in Vilnius. – "Popular tunes, songs hummed by my mother, the sounds of church choirs – all those things were invigorating my imagination."

And as the twig is bent... The voice is the axis of Twardowski's compositions that can be found in the "Songs and Sonnets" album. It combines works that are distant in time and of different emotional weight – from the painful "Farewell Sonnets", 1970 ("Sonety pożegnalne"), devoted to the memory in suddenly deceased Twardowski's fiancée, Danish composer Elizabeth Tramsen, through formally complex song cycle "The Face of the Sea," 1979 ("Oblicze morza"), to the series "From the Viliya" 1990 ("Znad Willi"), written to the words by Helena Massalska, evoking the atmosphere of the old Vilnius region.

"Songs and Sonnets" are performed brilliantly by the world-famous bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, accompanied by the pianist Lech Napierała.

PWM Edition

Stopka:

I Kwartet smyczkowy (1980)

Trio na skrzypce, klarnet i fortepian (2003)

II Kwartet smyczkowy (2019)

Total time: 75:21

Perf.: Silesian Quartet, Piotr Lato (clarinet), Piotr Sałajczyk (piano)

* CD Accord (ACD 317) 2023

Stopka:

Aleksander Tansman, Fantasy for cello and orchestra

 Grażyna Bacewicz I Cello Concerto

Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński C-67 

Miłosz Magin Cello Concerto

* CD Accord Music Edition 2023 (ACD313)

For its new recording project, the Warsaw Philharmonic, with its music and artistic director Andrzej Boreyko, invited the Polish cello virtuoso Marcin Zdunik. On Polish Music for Cello and Orchestra the artists present four compositions: Aleksander Tansman’s Fantasy for cello and orchestra, Grażyna Bacewicz’s First Cello Concerto, Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński’s C-67 and Miłosz Magin’s Cello Concerto.

Released in collaboration with CD Accord Music Edition, the album was produced by the outstanding Grammy-winning Polish specialists Andrzej Sasin and Aleksandra Nagórko. Recordings were made at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall on 2 and 4 June 2021 (Magin) and 1–3 September 2021 (Bacewicz, Jabłoński, Tansman).

The album is available to listen here: https://naxos.lnk.to/ACD313 

publisher information

Stopka:

Aleksandra Garbal A kaleidoscope of views

Perf.: Aleksandra Garbal (piano)

Total time: 105’58”

Acte Préalable Ltd AP0552-53 (2023)

 

The Kaleidoscope of Views is a two-disc album containing 21 compositions - improvisations composed under the influence of the events of the past years that took place in Poland and around the world. The presented album was created in 2022, it was recorded by the composer on May 12-13 and November 10, 15 and 24 on a Calisia piano. This album is a bird's-eye view of the earth, an insight into the hearts, thoughts and dreams of generations. The piano plays the role of a neo-Renaissance singer performing madrigals and recitatives.

The source of inspiration was the texts of the Old and New Testaments, and the vision of this piano cycle is a continuation of the original message from Unfinished Symphony - Beethoven's Friends Visions addressed to contemporary people. The kaleidoscope of Views is music without words, it does not impose any specific images, therefore the piano miniatures do not have titles, only numbers.

The album opens with a 9-minute improvisation which is a paraphrase of the first Polish knight's anthem. The first 12 miniatures are shorter in time than the next 9 from the second disc, which are an extension of the composer's original statement. The elements that bind the piano cycle together are the motives and the evolutionary treatment of the forms of individual miniatures, also the neo-modal harmonic language referring to the works of French and Italian impressionists, ornamentation and virtuosity, and the superior role of the timbre, its flickering through rhythmics.

Aleksandra Garbal