More thanks to A.S. - this time for a work by Rozycki which I didn't have in my collection - the really rather fine Symphonic Poem: King Cofetua. A typical luxurious, melodious wallow. Lovely.
Thanks to A.S. from me, too!!! I have immense problems in finding time to listen to all that stuff but I appreciate all your uploads very much!
Have others had problems with the Noskowski 'Commemorative Sounds' as well? I tried to download it several times but my computer cannot make sense of the identity of the file.
AS,
Many thanks for the Polish (& other) downloads. Eastern europe is proving as rich a hunting ground as is scandinavia for 'lost/unsung' works of the romantic era/type (no criticism for those whose liking is more 20th century but I'm definitely hooked on the 19th!).
Keep up the good work!
Best wishes
Richard
QuoteHave others had problems with the Noskowski 'Commemorative Sounds' as well?
No problem here. Went smoothly on the first try. Good luck!
Quote from: Latvian on Sunday 24 July 2011, 16:48
QuoteHave others had problems with the Noskowski 'Commemorative Sounds' as well?
No problem here. Went smoothly on the first try. Good luck!
I had to type the '.mp3' suffix to the file-name manually before downloading. Strange, usually my computer does it automatically.
britishcomposer
Hello.
I changed file-name, and re-upload.
Please try download it again.
A.S
Thanks, A.S.
No problem now! :D
Quote from: A.S on Sunday 24 July 2011, 07:01
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?b6u4lskr7b7mi72 (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?b6u4lskr7b7mi72)
Ludomir Rozycki (1883-1953) "Violin Concerto", Op. 70 (1944)
Ewelina Nowicka, violin; Polish Radio Orchestra Cracow; Zygmunt Rychert conductor
From Broadcast
A.S
Hello,
the uloaded Polish Radio recording of the Rozycki's Violin cto has been recently issued on CD by the Polish label Acte Prealable. There is also a second CD with two Rozycki's compositions for piano and orchestra - Pf Cto no. 1 in g-minor op. 43 and Ballada op. 18. Both played by Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz.
As to the cto no. 1 - it has benn issued commercially for the very first time. In fact only two recordings of that piece exist: one done for Polish Radio archives in 60-s by Władysław Kędra and the second one we have now on CD.
Second pf cto (of 1942) was never issued in its complete form. In 70s an LP by Polskie Nagrania (Muza) was released with its second (final) movement. the LP was devoted to the art of the Polish pianist Józef Śmidowicz.
Marek
Hello A.S.
when you've got the Pachulski's Suite? from the Polish Radio? I try to check regularly their program but did not notice that piece! I will check, I have somwhere the titles of the movements of the 3rd symphony by Noskowski.
by the way, I have got quite big collection of the off radio recordings of Polish music.
best,
Marek
I posted the movement headings of Noskowski's 3rd symphony here a little while back - which see (http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,1309.msg15931.html#msg15931)
Spring – Molto allegro con affezione;
Summer – The magic of the St.John's night – Adagio molto espressivo;
Autumn – Harvest home festival (song & dance) – Allegro;
Winter – Silence and lifelessness in Nature. Snowstorm. The return of Spring and greeting the sunny morning (Adagio-Presto-Adagio)
I forget if my source (a Polish music site? or perhaps the Euroclassic Notturno page at bbc.co.uk ?) had the tempo marking for the finale. Will check.
Ah. Here- google tells me this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/euroclassicnotturno/playlist100306.shtml) was indeed probably my source (BBC Euroclassic Notturno listings for March 6 2010, or earlier ones.) Another site (with downloads for the symphony, hopefully legal ones, but... hrm. also their site has downloads (samples?) for symphony 2 which are hopefully not the Sterling performances... anyway.) gives the tempo markings of the finale as Adagio-Presto-Adagio and so I fill them in...
Hello Mark.
I happened to found Pachulski's Suite from other website.
By the way, I interest in your big collection.
I like Polish romantic music very much!!
Best
A.S
Many thanks for the magnificent Nowowiejski orchestral pieces - highly enjoyable!
Quote from: A.S on Sunday 04 September 2011, 22:15
I happened to found Pachulski's Suite from other website.
By the way, I interest in your big collection.
I like Polish romantic music very much!!
Hello A.S.
Pachulski is rather not-well known here in Poland. You know for sure his Fantasy in A major op. 17 for pf and orch. that was released few years ago on CD by Polskie Nagrania/Muza.
I wonder how to send the excerpt from my inventory that - unfortunately needs a lot of updates.
best
Marek
you can find some Polish music in download section
Marek
Dear Marek
Thank you very much that you uploads.
These composer's name are I heard first time.
By the way. Do you know F.Nowowiejski's symphonies are exists?
I hope to listen it long rime.
Best
A.S
Hi A.S.
As to the symphonies of Nowowiejski - he did compose 4 of them. I can remember one/two recorded for Polish Radio. will check in my archive if I have got one of them. apart of the orchestral symphonies he did compose 8 or so organ pieces called symphonies.
I do have also off radio recording of Nowowiejski's vocal-orchestral piece Quo vadis - based on the novel by the Polish Nobel prize winner of 1904 Henryk Sienkiewicz.
the composition was to some extent famous worldwide (let say so) in the beginning of 20th century. I am not a fan of vocal-orchestral music but that is Polish piece and is quite interesting.
Marek
Thank you very much Marek!
I will look forward to hearing from you.
I recorded Nowowiejski's vocal-orchestral piece Quo vadis too.
I felt this is very dramatic and symphonic oratorio.
Nowowiejski's musics are quite excellent!
Best
A.S
I'd be very interested in hearing any more Nowowiejski that's out there. A seriously impressive composer of whom I knew nothing until the downloads were posted here. Very many thanks for them.
Me too!
That makes three of us....
Jerry
Quo Vadis must be the loudest oratorio ever written! Very exciting to begin with, but the sheer loudness quickly becomes extremely wearing. As I said, exciting - for a while - but not exactly subtle. Mind you there's some marvellous music later on - of an operatic intensity - so I'm hooked!
Thanks for it. Quo Vadis has been one of my favorite films of all time, too. The one with Peter Ustinov as Nero....
Yes, it's loud and works like this tend to get a little long for me at least except when you hear them in actual concert and can watch as well as listen. But I like it, too.
Jerry
as i have told - it's for fans of lesser well known music. Myself personally I am not a lover of operatic and cantatic music. however in that oratorio I found something for me - exactly the fragments that are not typically oratoric but symphonic.
tomorrow here in Warsaw we will have the symphonic performance of the Nowowiejski's opera The Legend of Baltic. Next week it is announced its rebroadcast by Polish Radio. The opera also not being staged much ofen. Last opera performance took place in ca. 70s
perhaps someone be interested.
Marek
Hello Marek
Thanks to your introduce.
I recorded this Oratorio at this August Polish radio broadcast.
I feel very symphonic and dramatic impression from this Oratorio.
I hope Polish radio more broadcast Nowowiejski's music.
A.S
Hi Marek: please do upload anything by Nowowiejski! He's a fascinating composer.
Thanks, Marek for the upload of the lovely Symphony No. 3 by Maliszewski - anyone who likes, say, Myaskovsky, Karlowicz, Steinberg, Lemba, etc. is going to like this too.
Allan,
you are right, it is very nice and attractive music with nice tunes, good constructed (in traditional sense). I like it. what might be his earlier pieces - that is the question!
I will go throgh my catalogue to find other symphonies of that style.
It takes however time - few months ago I decided to change Windows XP for Linux and that was not good idea. now I have troubles with opening my catalogue that was done and kept in Ms Access. Now to find something I have to look and dig through hundreds of my own-made CDs.
best,
Marek
Please take your time, Marek. There's no hurry!
Marek,
I've downloaded the Witold Maliszewski symphony but when I went to run the SETUP.EXE (presumably necessary to unload the file), it asked me to agree to all sorts of add-ons and licence terms for extras, which I don't want and don't want to agree to.
Do you have a simple MEDIAFIRE or similar that other uploaders use to avoid this problem please.
Thank you
Richard
Hi,
Registering with Mediafire is no big deal. Just create an account, username/password etc. and off you go.
I use it all the time without any problems whatsoever :)
Richard,
it is strange, I tried a minut ago and all was going simply without asking for any adds.
do you righ-click the button with the title and choose save target file as ?
Marek
You just have to use caution when downloading from that URL. There are something like four different buttons that say "DOWNLOAD" and none of them tell you much about WHAT you're downloading.
Jerry
so should I upload the Maliszewski to mediafire?
Of course, that's your call. I think I would switch. I just don't trust sites with lots of big, unidentified DOWNLOAD buttons.
At first I uploaded to RapidShare but they have the nasty habit
of deleting your files unless you buy the "pro" version. Or whatever they call it. So some of my links here at the forum are already invalid. I started using MediaFire.
Thanks much for the Maliszewski. I previously had his Piano Concerto and realy enjoyed that.
Jerry
I'll download the Maliszewski soon myself, have been curious about him for quite some time ever since seeing his scores on Sibley (not just the name but since the scores look like rather good music, I mean, of course... though I haven't the best record, no pun intended truly, of judging sound from sight- can think of several examples there, quite a few.)
Marek,
I've tried again and I'm still getting a SETUP.EXE downloaded (with both left and right button options) that requires me to accept various add-ons etc. I can't seem to finds a simple SAVE FILE AS option.
I'll try one last time, as others have suggested this is really worthwhile 'romantic' music I'd love to hear.
Cheers
Richard
I'll try to upload Maliszewski on mediafire.
QAs to Nłynarski - the symphony is good however not real big stuff - but rarity. I likw very much his violin cto no. 2, it was recorded few years ago by Kennedy.
and you have for sure the symphony by Stojowski? it is of late 90th of 19th century but is in the lovely post romantic style,
best,
Marek
Hi Marek
I have Stojowski's symphony.
It's live concert recording of this year.
I will upload it soon.
And thanks to tell me performers data of Barvinsky :D
All Best
A.S
Marek: thanks for the upload of the Stojowski Symphony. I already had the piece, but not in such good sound. A candidate for Sterling, perhaps?
According to HMB, the Pachulski suite was published in 1897, not 1898, unless I'm missing something-maybe a revision occurred. Sorry to be picky. Looking forward to hearing all this of course though my Mac shakes its head at the .exe files (yes, I gather it comes with a version of Virtual PC but still would have to buy Windows to make use of it- no wonder it's cold in here... hrm.)
The Maliszewski Third Symphony is a very enjoyable Tchaikovskian work, thoroughly worth an occasional airing. If anybody has a recording of the Piano Concerto or, indeed, any other work by him then I for one would really appreciate an upload!
I have the piano concerto - put it on my list to be reminded of next month.....
Jerry
Thanks very much in advance, Jerry.
I am quite sure that all who have the pf by Maliszewski have the same performance by Andrzej Stefański. I would be extremely shocked knowing about other recording. the same is with his Kuyavian Fantasy - recorded - according to my knowledge - only once in 1952 by Wladyslaw Kędra.
Stefanski did record in 70s also pf cto by Zelenski. here we have two recordings, first is by Olga Martusiewicz and was done in 1952 too.
Hello A.S.
I know that the symphony by Stojowski was performed live in recent months. I did not catch it off radio so would be greatly interested in havng your copy.
my recording is under maestro Chwedczuk.
The symphony dates back to 1894 if I remember well and won the prize at the Paderewski Musical Competition held in 1898 in Dresden. Other laureates were Melcer for his 2nd pf cto and Młynarski for his 2nd violin cto.
Symphony was performed at the concert inaugurating in 1904 the Warsaw Philharmonics - founded by the way by Paderewski.
Marek
Marek: do you know whether either of Zelenski's two symphonies have ever been performed and broadcast?
Stojowski op21 - first movement is not Moderato, but Andante mesto- Allegro moderato (assuming this is actually op21, as I'll know in a moment... :) looking at the IMSLP/Russian Library download score just now.) Second movement is (indeed) Andante (with only local tempo changes of the rit. and a tempo kind.)
Then:
III. Scherzo: Molto vivace
IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco, ma non vivace
(with a lot of localized calando, incalzando, rit., and a tempo nuances. One gets the impression that the last bars of this are presto- even though the whole movement is in 2/4 and nothing about that has changed - something about the writing seems to say headlong rush to me. Will see if it sounds that way, too!)
(almost exactly as in the files, yes.)
And again, again, sigh, the Pachulski was published in 1897. Pachulski did not invent the time machine and compose it in 1898. imslp.org's uploader very likely, I'm guessing, got the bracketed (hence, estimated!) "1898" by consulting a plate table for the publisher, often a good way of estimating the publication date, but HMB is generally better still.
Am I alone in thinking that the Stojowski often sounds like Stanford?
Quote from: semloh on Tuesday 20 September 2011, 10:28
Am I alone in thinking that the Stojowski often sounds like Stanford?
It's certainly quite conservative - a case of parallel development, perhaps?
Hello Marek
I checked Polish radio broadcast program at this June and I surprising to see Live performance of Stojowski's symphony!
And I interesting to your Chwedczuk's recording :D
Best
A.S
Hello Richard,
here you have the link to the Maliszewski on mediafire
http://www.mediafire.com/?k2bq24dmwd3s4b4
Marek
Allan,
as to the symphonies by Zelenski I have never heard them on radio. No idea they both or one of them have been ever registered.
From the small book on the composer (byZdzisław Jachimecki) I can see the following:
1st is of 1871-2, while 2nd of ca. 1912.
on the latter the author of the book writes: "it much more deserved the first prize at the competition organized on the 10th anniversary of the Warsaw Philharmonics in 1912 than the prize winner - the symphony by Adolf Gużewski".
Here I must say that yesterday I was wrong when writing that the Warsaw Philharmonics innaugurated in 1904 - sorry for that. I wrote all that just from my head.
interesting is that the winner - the Gużewski's piece is completely unknown - I have no information about its recording or performances in last 30 years.
The book on Zelenski states also that not long after the competition no. 2 was presented to the public and it demonstrated real talent of the composer and his creative powers.
that is all I know.
Marek
Hello eschiss1,
how it came to discussing the movements of the Stojowski's symphony?
has it been dowloaded? cannot find.
I agree that you quoted the correct names of the movements.
I don't know what performance you all have got - that live one mentioned by A.S.?
if you have not had the Polish radio recording of 70s/early 80s??? I will upload it later tonight.
best,
Marek
and the score is at IMSLP (http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony,_Op.21_%28Stojowski,_Sigismond%29). Likewise a reduced score of the D major op23 Rhapsodie , here Rhapsodie (http://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsodie_Symphonique,_Op.23_%28Stojowski,_Sigismond%29).
Hello Marek!
A recent live-performance of the Stojowski Symphony has been uploaded by A.S
You may have overlooked it because it is in one single zip-file with the Rhapsodie symphonique:
Quote from: A.S on Monday 19 September 2011, 06:12
Zygmunt Stojowski : Rapsodie symphonique pour Piano et Orchestre
Symphony in D minor
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bc8c8l37z79wqcg (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bc8c8l37z79wqcg)
Jonathan Plowright - piano,
Polish Radio Orchestra
Łukasz Borowicz - conductor
(Warsaw, 06.05.2011)
Recorded from Polish radio Broadcast This Year
A.S
Thanks, Marek, for researching information on Zelenski's symphonies. Do you by any chance have his Piano Concerto in your archive?
Marek,
Have just seen your Mediafire link for the Maliszewski symphony. Downloading as I type!
Many thanks
Richard
Re; Zelenski symphonies - after enquiring about the availability of the orchestral material for the Zelenski symphonies, I was informed a few years back by PWM in Poland that the scores & parts/original ms had been destroyed during WWII. However, hopefully this is not the case. Does anyone have any further information?
Hello Britishcomposer,
Hello A.S.,
thank you, I really have overlooked the A.S. upload of the Stojowski's symphony.
I expect nice hearing and comparing with the studio recording. I believe I can discover some interesting elements and differences in both performances.
Marek
Hello Allan,
Hello Martin,
as to Zelenski.
yes I do have two different recordings of his pf cto. One (with Andrzej Stefanski) is taken off-radio so I can upload it. the second one of 1952 (with Olga Martusiewicz?) I have got from my friend and I am not sure how he got it - with no doubts from Polish Radio however rather not off the air.
As to the scores of his symphonies. It is probably the case that they have not survived. that happened to many composers during WW2 - some of them composed a number of their compositions anew after the war.
I have found on the PWM website that they have score of one fragment from the Zelenski's symphony no. 1, namely Funeral Tones, Andante from Symphony No. 1, (1871), ca ''7'30''
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&%AFele%F1ski_W%B3adys%B3aw&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364449&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=118550&strona=3
as to other orchestral pieces by him mentioned by PWM I do have
Two Polish Dances: Mazurka and Polonaise Op. 37 for Symphony Orchestra, ca 19'
Suite of Polish Dances Polonaise, Krakowiak, Mazurka for Symphony Orchestra Op. 47, ca 12'
In The Tatra Mountains, Characteristic Overture Op. 27, (1870), ca 15'
Wit Stwosz, Introduction and March from the Music for W. Rapacki's Drama, (1857), ca 10'
am not sure whether I have Gavotte for Symphony Orchestra, ca 7', must check it.
best,
Marek
Thanks for all that information on Zelenski. I would be grateful for an upload of the Piano Concerto - but please take your time: you have already contributed so much to our knowledge of Polish music!
as to Zelenski again
do you know his Piano quartet in C minor op. 61 ? I do not say it is a masterpiece but there is such composition - form not very frequent in Polish music of late 19th/beginning of 20th century. It was issued years ago on Olympia with Pf Quartet by Noskowski. Polish label Acte prealable is about to release ne CD with Zelenski's quartet as well as 2nd volume of his piano music.
It is (quartet) in fact more traditional and of lesser invention than the piano Quintet by Juliusz Zarębski (1854-1985) that is commonly considered as the best Polish chamber piece after Chopin!
I can also name Pf Quintet by Rozycki (only radio recording).
OK I can see I am far away from the symphonic music.
Marek
The Zelenski/Noskowski CD was one of my first experiences of Zelenski's music and the Piano Quartet is a truly lovely work. I certainly regard Zelenski as one of the nineteenth century's finest unknown composers - and I believe that, as with Noskowski, there is a clearly discernible development in his compositional style, which is one of the signs of a really good composer.
Rozycki- is the Ballade the Balladyna opus 25, or some other work?... Thanks! (Actually, need to check whether it's announced on your CD first- whoops :) )
Hello eschiss1
no, according to my source (small book on Rozycki) Balladyna is a solo piano piece of 1909 while Ballada is a piece for piano and orchestra of 1904 (released in 60/70s on LP by Polskie Nagrania with Regina Smendzianka (died few days ago) and then reissued on CD by Olympia and now on CD by Acte Prealable). Pf quintet is of 1913.
Rozycki composed 7 operas, 3 ballets (most famous is Pan Twardowski - exists on CD), symphonic poems and small number of ochestral music, nice Sonata for cello and piano
His opera Eros and Psyche was released few years ago on CD by Polskie Nagrania.
Marek
Hrm. The 3 minute "Ballade" by Rozycki played by the pianist seems to be neither of those- maybe it's part of a set of piano pieces...
Hello eschiss1
oo, I can see what Ballad you mean - the piece played by Kędara and upload by me few days ago. in fact, its neither Balladyna op. 25 (Poem for piano) nor Ballada for pf and orch op. 18. It must be a part of a piano cycle, perhaps op. 15 - 3 Morceaux or op. 37 - Polish Dances?
http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-music-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/ludomir-rozycki
I do have a number of his piano music recorded - must check.
symphonic poems are also nice, good orchestrated with nice melodies, e.g. Stanczyk. Ballet Pan Twardowski includes also very tuneful themes.
Quote from: A.S on Tuesday 20 September 2011, 13:50
Hello Marek
I checked Polish radio broadcast program at this June and I surprising to see Live performance of Stojowski's symphony!
And I interesting to your Chwedczuk's recording :D
Best
A.S
Dear A.S.
As I mentioned before on nearest Sunday Polish Radio will rebroadcast the concert performance of the Nowowiejski's opera "Legend of Baltic" It was done last Satturday in Warsaw. I am not sure I can catch it off radio as I have problems with recording online. Will ou be able to recoed it? Or someone else can do it?
best,
Marek
http://www.polskieradio.pl/Portal/Schedule/Schedule.aspx
here you have a note from their website, Program 2, Filharmonia Dwójki, 25 Sep. at. 19.00 European time
19:00 Filharmonia Dwójki
Informacje o audycji:
Inauguracja sezonu koncertowego 2011/2012 Polskiej Orkiestry Radiowej (Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. Witolda Lutosławskiego, 8.09.2011)
Feliks Nowowiejski Legenda Bałtyku – opera w trzech aktach
wyk. Pavlo Tolstoy – tenor (Doman), Aleksander Teliga – bas (Mestwin), Ewa Biegas – sopran (Bogna), Agnieszka Makówka – mezzosopran (Swatawa), Michał Partyka – baryton (Tomir), Robert Gierlach – bas-baryton (Lubor), Chór Filharmonii Narodowej, Polska Orkiestra Radiowa, dyr. Łukasz Borowicz
Thanks for this exciting info about Polish composers. I buy from Amazon, and a check there was disappointing. There are only a few sound samples available, and the CDs on offer are generally expensive. Any advice as to where I should look?
Gerhard
Mark, I'll have a go at recording the Nowowiejski opera "Legend of Baltic" on Sunday evening, although it'll only be from the internet stream so I can't guarantee success.
Hello Marek and Mark
I will record it.
If I success to record, I ill upload.
Best
A.S
thank you Mark and A.S.
I am greatly interested in having the copy of Nowowiejski - don't expect masterpiece but something not commonly known and rare - yest that will be such a piece.
Marek
After hearing this Stojowski symphony (thanks to the aboev) i was astonished to hear that there is no commercial recording of this passionate work. Incredibly. What a shame. It is a lovely work and ought to be on record!
the link to the pf cto by Zelenski should be soon available at download section
Thanks, Marek, for the Zelenski PC. Wonderful!
Odder still is that the English-language Zelenski article (in too-typical - says this absentee editor hypocritically- Wikipedia style in a style-breaking language change pair as "Koncert a-moll for piano") lists only one piano concerto which would seem not to be the one to hands (and pedals).
Marek,
Any chance you could load Zelenski PC to mediafire so I can avoid the same problems I had before?
Would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Richard
The Zelenski Piano Concerto is a fascinating example of what seems to be the composer's later style - rather like late Brahms in its darker colours and gruffer exterior. Not that the piece is lacking in beauty - it isn't - but it's certainly in a more advanced idiom than his earlier music. In any case, it's a prime candidate for Hyperion's RPC series, I'd have thought.
Much thanks for the Weinberg Symphony No.8 :)
Hello eschiss1,
thank you also for the Weinberg symphony. I am quite sure that the performance took place here in Warsaw in 2001 or 2002. Must compare with my copy.
Richard,
here is the link to Zelensky on mediafire
http://www.mediafire.com/?b7103obdg5hyyrg (http://www.mediafire.com/?b7103obdg5hyyrg)
Marek
Thank you A.S.
I am so happy you have succeded in registering it.
Yesterday I heard a fragment and learnt that the opera is in 3 acts but act no. 2 has two scenes and radio presented it in two parts: act 1 and 1st scene of act 2 and then 2nd scene of act 2 and act 3.
If you want I can process the recording and upload iy again.
They said that the premiere took place in 1924 in Poznan, then the opera was staged for a number of times. After WW2 it had few performances in 4 act version - I suppose that two scenes of act 2 were showed as two separate acts. The last performance was done in 1975 here.
Libretto is let say rather fantastic on the sunk island on Baltic Sea called Vineta. The plot goes on during the shortest day (midsummer night?) when the island - only once a year- comes out of the sea. The fable is typical, there is of corse love affair. I am not a fan of oparas and in my opinion the fables are in majority of cases rather not strong as it concerns dramaturgy and likelihood.
For me the music itself is more important that the stage action. of course scenography is importang, good play of singers.
A.S. thank you again,
Marek
One movement of Weinberg 8 is available on you tubeMieczyslaw Weinberg alias Mojsej Samuilovič Vajnberg (1919-1996): Symfonie č.8 "Kwiaty polskie" (Symphony No. 8 "The Flowers of Poland") na text J. Tuwima, op. 83; Jerzy Knetig - tenor, Symfonický orchestr a sbor Polské národní filharmonie, sbormistr Henryk Wojnarowski, dirigent Gabriel Chmura
1.Závan jara (Adagio), 2.Děti z předměstí (Allegro), 3.Před starou chalupou (Andantino), 4.Byl sad (Allegretto), 5.Bez (Lento), 6.Lekce (Allegro), 7.Varšavští psi (Allegro molto), 8.Matka (Adagio), 9.Spravedlnost (Moderato), 10.Visla plyne (Adagio).
I wy, warszawskie psy, w dniu kary
Psi obowiązek swój spełnijcie,
Zwyjcie się wszystkie i zbiegnijcie
Straszliwie pomścić swe ofiary.
...Za psy bombami rozszarpane,
Za zmarłe pod strzaskanym domem,
Za te, co wyły nad swym panem,
Drapiąc mu ręce nieruchome;
Za te, co z wdziękiem beznadziejnym
Łasiły się do nieboszczyków,
Za śmierć szczeniaków, co w piwnicy
Jeszcze bawiły się w koszyku;
Za biegające rozpaczliwie,
Pozostawione po mieszkaniach,
W dymie duszące się, półżywe,
Pamiętające o swych paniach;
Za nastroszone, za wierzące,
Że człowiek wróci - bo pies czeka;
I tak, w pozycji czekającej,
Siadł ufny pies na grób człowieka;
Za wzrok błagalny, przerażony
Tumultem, trzaskiem, pożarami,
Za psy, co same pazurami
W ogrodach ryły sobie schrony -
Za wszystkie męki i niedole,
Własne i tych, co was kochali
Wśród wspólnych ścian i śród rozwalin,
Zwyjcie się, bracia, na Psie Pole!
Niechaj w was wściekłe piany wzbiorą
I hurmem w trop zdyszaną sforą,
W trop, kiedy z Polski będą dymać
I tylko pludry w garści trzymać!
O cegły gruzów kły wyostrzcie
I o zbielałe ludzkie koście,
A gdy ich dopadniecie - skoczcie
Do grdyk, brytany, do gardzieli!
Ostrymi kłami wgryźć się, szarpnąć,
By nie zdążyli, hycle, charknąć!
Do grdyk, wilczyce! A pazury
W ślepia! by nawet nie mrugnęli.
A powalonych niech opadną
Wojska pomniejszych psów-mścicieli,
Niech ich poszarpią na kawały,
Żeby i matki nie wiedziały,
Gdzie szukać rozwłóczonych cząstek!...
Bo nasze - też nie znajdywały
Główek swych dzieci, nóżek, piąstek... (less info)
Marek,
Many tks for Mediafire version of Zelenski PC. Downloading as I type!
Truly, Polish composers must be one of the deepest pools of unsungs going! Do oytehrs think so too?
My interest in Polish 'romantic' orchestral music (outside of Wieniawski & Chopin!) started when Kennedy did an album recently of Polish VCs and has grown from there. Naxos with Karlowicz has also helped.
Once again, many thanks and keep up the good work - I'm sure we all really appreciate hearing these lovely 'unsungs' (works or composers)
Best wishes
Richard
Thanks for the text etc. re Weinberg/Wajnberg/... symphony 8 (changing ID tag and adding to lyrics and Album Artist- for tenor and chorus resp.- on my iTunes item :D) (and, welcome :)! )
It is really nice to hear you liked Zelenski and Weinberg. The long poem Polish Flowers by Julian Tuwim was and still is (in fragments) popular among Poles. It dates to WW2 time and was written during the Tuwim's years in Brazil and US.
it is complex as the essence is concerned - lyrical, political, polemical with some political circles, consisting personal memories etc.
the above quoted text, for example, is devoted to the Warsaw dogs that suffered during the war etc.
don't remember what about other fragments tell.
Marek
Hard to see if this has been noted in this thread, but as to the Młynarski first concerto one may want to also see
IMSLP (http://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No.1,_Op.11_(M%C5%82ynarski,_Emil)) - full score and reduction.
(Of course, that was probably the reason for some to have requested it in the first place, since the 2nd was recorded and the first was on IMSLP - if the 2nd is available in score full or reduced somewhere and the first is ever commercially recorded it might be possible to balance those scales more completely.) The score of Młynarski's F major symphony is also at IMSLP as noted (I don't think I've seen that uploaded here, though the work's been mentioned in discussion.)
I had never heard of Jerzy Lefeld, - but his very romantic E minor 2nd Symphony is a nice one indeed, which I am enjoying immensely. The 2nd (slow) movement especially is a real beauty. Thanks for the upload.
Hello Greg K
I'm glad to hear your comment.
I also like this romantic symphony very much!
I know Lefeld's biography a little, but I hope this composer's music are able to listen in future.
A.S
It is an astonishingly fine Symphony I have been playing over and over again. A real discovery, -
even if completely out of its time. What might the context be for 1969-76? As with my response to it, just one's inner musings I suppose.
I agree the Lefeld is a nice symphony. It is not completely out of time if we keep in mind that 1969-76 is actually the time of its revision. The first version of the piece dates from 1921 - so it's still a conservative piece but not in such an extreme way. However, I don't know any other pieces by Lefeld, so that I cannot say how his other compositions of the 1960s and 1970s might sound.
Absolutely. A gorgeous listen. Thanks very much for the link.
the Maliszewski (at least I think that's the right spelling) is his opus 29- don't actually know what his opus 27 is (though as with the odd and annoying case of Sgambati's works published under different opus numbers consistently by different publishers apparently and causing a right mess..- it might be both?) Published in 1939 (of course perhaps earlier too- I don't know.)
(Also, Worldcat says "h-molli"- as in, B minor- not B-flat. Unfortunately, a taped broadcast is not going to settle that, of course (not when that tape of Wellesz sym. 2 in E-flat minor _sounds_ in C-sharp minor-ish in a way that will might people with perfect pitch- what is the expression- hissing and barking fits?... probably will take reference to the score, or to a reference on Maliszewski if ever there is. And given e.g. the versions of Rimsky's first symphony as an example, a reference to "the" score doesn't establish that it's "the" score the performance is working from, not right offhand... oy...)
Hello Jerry.
Thank you very much for your many uploads.
I listened Novak's May symphony and Dvarionas's concerto today.
I like both of these very much! Thanks again!
By the way, I have recording of Maliszewski's concerto.
My recording sound is very good condition ( I think ).
But I can't upload it because I don't know what of the source of recording.
Maybe, I think this is from radio broadcast...
Does anybody know what of the source of recording?
A.S
My recording data
Maliszewski, Witold (1873-1939) Piano Concerto in B-flat minor, Op. 27 (1938)
Andrzej Stefański, piano
Polish Radio National SO
Re the Maliszewski concerto: most sources except Worldcat do have B-flat minor, www.pwm.com.pl (which sells the work) included. Hinson and Worldcat have opus 29, not opus 27 fwiw; again without at least seeing the score (and possibly not even then- what "settles" opus number seems an unsettled question) it's hard to say- but I don't know where either number comes from (though I am guessing the librarians who contribute to Worldcat have at least seen the score- which doesn't prevent them from making some understandable mistakes in other circumstances it's true.)
Hello A.S.
Maliszewski's cto played by Stefanski is - of course - Polish Radio archive recording. There is no commercial release of it.
I have just dowloaded the version with Kalecki - new to me, must listen to it. I did not know that it exists, never heard it off radio. This recording must have been done in 60s? - conductor Jerzy Gert died in 1968.
I correct myself - no, I do have two recordings of the Maliszewski's cto. and now can see that the version with Kalecki was recorded in 1959. And the only (?) recording of his Kuyavian Fantasy for pf and orchestra (of 1928) was done in 1952 (Wladyslaw Kedra, Polish Radio Orchestra of Bydgoszcz, cond. Arnold Rezler). I don't know if that piece is known to some of you.
Marek
It's been mentioned here in earlier Maliszewski threads and in the composer's Wikipedia article.
Anyone interested in a BC recording of Grazyna Bacewicz's Cello Concerto No.1 I've discovered I have?
Bacewicz? Yes, thank you :) (especially as I think I have access to a score or reduction of that particular work up at the uni library where I'm an alum, so I may be able to fill in the tempo headings if I need to. more importantly, I like a lot of her music, middle and late and some inbetween, and the more I hear the better :) )
The Bacewicz Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 4 have not been recorded- as far as I know.
Anyone have access to broadcasts?
Hrm. It may be good to collect what information one has about them (or is that just being pedantic? Sorry...)
Sym. 4 (1953, premiered Krakow 1954) - instrumentation and publisher page Here (http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Symfonia&grupa_p=3&przedm=126049&change_lang=1&change_skin=103374) (inst.: 4343-4331-batt (4esec) ar-archi )
Sym. 2 (1951) instr. 3.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - perc - str (from http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/VEPM/bacewicz/bac-wrks.html (http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/VEPM/bacewicz/bac-wrks.html)) (premiere: 13 April 1951, Warsaw: National Philharmonic Orchestra (Warsaw), Witold Rowicki - cond.)
Sym. 1 (1938) - manuscript in National Library.
From what little I know, all three, like the third, are probably examples of her more tonal style (which in the third suggested to me - ... hrm. In the - not so well reviewed in Fanfare e.g. though I like it plenty Koch CD recording... - well- Some "influences" suggested themselves - well, oddly, the name Borodin if only because his "fate" theme recurs constantly, but maybe it's just me who thinks so, though the treatment is different - ... and in the "antics" of the 4th movement finale second theme... erm - Piston in circus-y/music-hall mode- but for once I actually mean that as a compliment. The more often recorded concerto for strings, which I think I first heard in that recording and enjoyed very much and then later in other recordings too- came off well - reminding me of a lighter but not too light version of some contemporaries' efforts in the string orchestra medium...)
Have trouble considering Bacewicz without remembering that Donal Henahan criticized a publication of her music for being behind the times and conservative (writing at the time, not years later when he would never have written such words, of course.)
Latvian, Thanks to Symphonic music of Fitelberg.
I think these are very good symphonic poems written in late romantic style.
Thanks, Atsushi
Thanks, Atsushi, for Maklakawiecz's hyper-Szymanowskian Symphony No.2!
More information about the composer:
JAN MAKLAKIEWICZ (b. 1899, Chojnata - d. 1954, Warsaw)
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Jan Maklakiewicz was born on November 24, 1899 at Chojnata in the Mazowsze region of Poland; he died on February 7, 1954 in Warsaw. Maklakiewicz was a composer, conductor, teacher, critic and publicist. After initial studies with his father, a country organist, he went to Warsaw to study, first at the Chopin Music School with Biernacki (harmony), Szopski (counterpoint) and Binental (violin) and later at the Conservatory of Music (1922-25) with Statkowski (composition). In the years 1926-27 he completed his composer's studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris under Paul Dukas. After his return to Poland he became engaged in composition and was also active as an organizer of musical events, having founded a number of choral ensembles. He was also engaged in teaching, as well as in musical journalism. In the years 1927-29 at the conservatory in Łódz he was in charge of the school choir and lectured on theory of music. From 1929 until his death he was a teacher at the Conservatory in Warsaw. In 1932 he was appointed organist of the Holly Cross, Warsaw, where he also worked as a choirmaster and music critic. After the Second World War, as a musical publicist he contributed reviews and articles to some newspapers and magazines, such as "Daily Morning," "Music," "Choir" and "Polish Daily." In the years 1945-47 he was director of the State Philharmonic in Cracow and then, from 1947-48, he occupied the same position in Warsaw, also lecturing on composition and instrumentation at the State Higher School of Music. He wrote a great deal of church music in the 1930s and a number of mass songs after the war. Many of his works are based on folk themes. Maklakiewicz received the State Music Award in 1932 for his Cello Concerto, the First Prize at the Kronenberg Competition in 1933 for his violin Concerto No. 1 and - posthumously - the Officer's Cross of the Order of Poland's Revival (Polonia Restituta).
LIST OF WORKS
Orchestral Works and Concertos
Symphonic Variations - 1922
Concerto, for cello and orchestra on Gregorian themes - 1930
Violin Concerto No. 1 - 1930
Symphonic Tango, for orchestra - 1931
Concert Overture - 1939
Grunwald, symphonic poem - 1939-44
Prague Overture - 1947
Grand Waltz and Polka from Lowicz, from Ballet Suite The Golden Duck, arranged for wind orchestra by A. Sikorski - 1950
Violin Concerto No. 2 "Mountaineers" - 1952
Chamber Music
Hucul's Suite, violin and piano - 1927
Triptych , for cello and piano - 1927
Vocal-Instrumental Music
Les Vierges Aux Crepuscules , for 2 mezzo-sopranos, flute, viola and harp - 1927
Symphony No. 2 "Holy Lord", for baritone solo, mixed choir and orchestra - 1927
Concertino quasi una Fantasia, for piano, mezzo-soprano and orchestra - 1929
Four Japanese Songs for soprano and orchestra - 1929
Song of our Daily Bread, symphonic poem for mixed choir and orchestra - 1931
Polish Mass, for mixed choir, soprano or tenor solo and organ - 1944
Four Songs Op.5, for high voice and orchestra - 1946
Madonnas, five songs for soprano and orchestra - 1947
Silesia Works and Sings, folk suite for tenor solo, men's, women's and mixed choir with orchestra or piano - 1948
Up with Poland
The Boys Returned from the War
The Haymakers
On a green Meadow
Silesian Dances
Suite from Łowicz for soprano solo, mixed choir and orchestra - 1948
March
On the Rustic Fife
Sophie
Cradle Song
The Wedding
Zabrze, cantata for 4-part men's or mixed choir and symphony orchestra - 1949
Vocal-Instrumental Music (undated works)
Christmas Carols, for mixed choir with the accompaniment of an organ
After the Star - words by S. Mlodozeniec
When Christ is Born
Our Lady
He is lying in the Manger
Bow to Jesus - words by B.S. Kossuth
God is Born
The Virgin Mary's Cradle Song
At our Lord's Nativity
Hushaby, Little Jesus
The Star is shining above the Stable - words by B.S. Kossuth
Little Jesus
Our Lady lulled her Son - words by H. Jarowicz
People's Hearts Rejoice - words by H. Jarowicz
Elegy after Roman Statkowski's Death, for 4-part mixed choir and organ
Our Lady, song from the 17th centuryfor mixed or 4-part men's choir and organ
Choral Music a capella
Five Folk Songs, for mixed choir - 1929
Little Bell - folk tune from the Poznan region, after L. Schiller
Persuasions - as above
With a Pipe and a Drum - as above
I had a Lass - tune from the Kurpie region
The little Geese were flying - tune from the Kurpie region, dedicated to S. Wiechowicz
The little Geese were flying , tune from the Kurpie region for mixed choir - 1929
Three Strings, for 4-part men's choir - 1935
Cradle Song, for 4-part men's choir (two different versions) - 1946
Zabrze, for mixed choir - 1949
Choral Music a Capella (undated works)
Christmas Carols, for choir
Harnas from the Beskid Mountains for mixed choir, to the words by J. Reimschussel
Kashubian Bugle - Call, for 3-part mixed choir, to the words by H. Parysiewicz
Song of the Polish Sea, for mixed choir, to the words by A. Boguslawski
Two Winds , for mixed choir, to the words by J. Tuwim
Songs for Voice and Piano
Du bist wie Blume, song op.23, to the words by H. Heine - 1928
Song of the Mayor's Daughter, for op.21, to the words by J. Kasprowicz - 1928
Cradle Song (there is also an arrangement for voice and mandolin by E. Ciuksza) - 1946
Stage Works
Cagliostro in Warsaw, ballet in 3 scenes - 1938
The Golden Duck, ballet in 5 scenes - 1950
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/maklakiewicz.html (http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/maklakiewicz.html)
Alan, thanks to post biography about MAKLAKIEWICZ.
Maybe his recorded works are little as best as I know, but I'm very interested in his works!
Worldcat lists 12 commercial recordings from 1959 to 2010 (and 7 duplicates/reissues) that contain his works (instrumental, liturgical, etc.). They and I probably missed some though. (This includes a Kolysanka recorded by the Kvartet Pesnica a few years back, his Triptych of 1927 as above on a Akademia Muzyczna 2002 CD, and also his 24-minute Polish Mass (1944) on a Polskie Nagrania CD in 1991; also- I thought this was a reissue so didn't count it at first but looking more closely at the contents as I should have done it contains a different work :) - his Poemat symfoniczny "Grunwald" (as listed above - 1939-44) on a Dux CD last year.) One work recorded during the 1960s is described as a co-composition by Maklakiewicz and Leon Schiller, "Pastorałka : a popular mystery play", inspired I don't doubt by medieval examples of the same.
Thank you, Atsushi for the symphony!
I did not catch it off radio.
I do have also the Maklakiewicz's Cello cto, Concertino quasi una fantasia for soprano, piano and orchestra (1930) and Prague overture and will upload it - also radio archive recordings.
Marek
Thanks for the Noskowski 3rd. I just devoured it, but I'm going at it again tomorrow!
Just posted and awaiting approval -
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Cello Concerto No.1 (1951)
Anita Krochmalska, cello/ Polish RTV Krakow SO/ Tadeusz Wojciechowski
recorded at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland on 15th December 2004
:)
Thanks!!
a search lists Ms. Krochmalska as a pianist (she premiered several of Bacewicz' works apparently)- though maybe she was equally skilled as a cellist- will have to check... (according to http://musicalwren.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/grazyna-bacewicz-recordings-%E2%80%93-a-very-long-checklist/ (http://musicalwren.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/grazyna-bacewicz-recordings-%E2%80%93-a-very-long-checklist/) and a couple of other sources?)
(and I think the conductor may be Tadeusz Wojciechowski , born 1952 - assuming the performance was later than 1959, of course :) . Slight spelling difference but makes a lot of difference in web searches! The conductor is himself a cellist... could there be a piano piece somewhere on the original broadcast - or a cello-piano piece- perhaps not by Bacewicz - and then Wojciechowski may have - riskily ? - conducted himself in the concerto- or maybe Krochmalska conducted it and he was soloist?... I would not know. All guesses. Sorry!)
Yes, something is not correct. Anita Krochmalska is a pianist. She has recorded Bacewicz's piano concerto:
Anita Krochmalska / Orkiestra Polskiego Radia i TV w Krakowie (Polish Radio & TV Orchestra of Cracow)/ cond. Marek Tracz
I do have also 3 performances of the Cello cto no. 1 - with following performers:
Kazimierz Wiłkomirski / Polish Radio Orchestra of Cracow/ Krzysztof Missona
Andrzej Bauer / Orkiestra Filharmonii Śląskiej (Orchestra of Silesian Philharmonics) / Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk
Bartosz Koziak / Polska Orkiestra Radiowa (Polish Radio O) / Jan Krenz
I have uoloaded "Uwertura praska (Prague Overture)" of 1947 by Jan Maklakiewicz.
see Dowloads section /waiting for approval/
Yes, something is not correct. Anita Krochmalska is a pianist.
Yes, this is odd. However... here is the data from the BBC Radio 3 broadcast last year, which I downloaded at the time, clearly identifying her as the cello soloist:
Bacewicz: Cello Concerto No 1 (1951)
Anita Krochmalska (cello)
Polish Radio and Television Orchestra, Cracow
Tadeusz Wojciechowski (conductor)
Quote from: eschiss1 on Friday 04 November 2011, 18:35maybe she was equally skilled as a cellist [and] I think the conductor may be Tadeusz Wojciechowski. The conductor is himself a cellist... could there be a piano piece somewhere on the original broadcast - or a cello-piano piece- perhaps not by Bacewicz - and then Wojciechowski may have - riskily ? - conducted himself in the concerto- or maybe Krochmalska conducted it and he was soloist?
Sorry chaps - this was the only information I had. The conductor's name has now been corrected, but as to Krochmalska's prowess with a bow ...
??? :o ::) ;D
I'm listening to Malawski's Symphony No.2, kindly uploaded by Marek, as I type. A very dramatic opening followed by very intense musical material, almost hyper-expressive. This is not an easy listen, but it sounds like important music. It'll be interesting to read what others make of the piece...
Hrm. By the way- Marek, the three recordings you have of the Bacewicz Cello concerto 1- would you consider checking - at leisure! - their total timings (just the total timings -- one can approximate for initial narration times from different radio services, and estimate. Thanks anycase and either way - if not no worries!! (BTW, if Anita Krochmalska is the same as the pianist, she has a Polish Wikipedia stub, here (http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Krochmalska-Podfilipska) (16 March 1940-21 May 2006).
Downloaded the Malawski symphony and looking forward to listening to it!
Hello eschiss1,
the UC Bacewicz's no. 1 lasts in total 21:20
all my recordings last longer:
Wiłkomirski doesn't match as regards the sound - it is the oldest one (9:59, 5:39, 7:20)
Bauer (10:12, 5:47, 7:14)
Koziak is for sure not the competitor! it is live performence (9:55, 6:24, 5:33)
I don't pretend to say ther is no other recording - but the performer cannot be Anita Krochmalska.
I try to "investigate" the case
thanks!
Allan,
Malawski's Symphony has its title "Dramatic" due to the followin. It was composed in 1956 and in June that year in the city of Poznan serious protest against the politics of then ruling government took place. Protest was brutally suppressed with dozens being killed. The society was shocked and in its majority against the ruling party. Few month later the new politicians took power (in October) and situation beacme a little bit better.
But in October 1956 the uprising in Hungary broke out. Poland with new goverment supported the Hungarians (by the way Polish-Hungarian relations for centuries were very friendly). Malawski reacted with composing his last (?) work "Hungaria" that I will also upload.
here is the link to mediafire with the Malawski's symphony - for Greg.
http://www.mediafire.com/?tpgalmgm35lmgfr
I am not sure whether to re-upload in mediafire Cello cto by Maklakiewicz or upload the Cello cto by Bacewicz with Wilkomisrki playing (by the way I do hace off radio recording of the Wilkomirski's Symphony concertante for cello and orchestra)
Thanks for this very important background information to the composition of Malawski's 2nd Symphony, Marek.
Artur Malawski (1904-1957)
"Hungaria 1956" (1957)
1. Allagro barbaro
2. Improvisazione. Andante
3. Quasi rondo. Allegro moderato
4. Notturno. Andante
5. Appassionato
Polish Radio Orchestra of Krakow/Cracow
cond. Janusz Przybylski
Malawski died on 23 Dec. 1957, and Hungaria was premiered in 1958. Then after not long time, due new changes in political line in Poland (end of so called "thaw"), it disapeared from the repertire of orchestras for years.
/off Polish Radio, Sep. 2003/
/partitions done by myself based on announcement/
link in the Downloads section
Another composition by Artur Malawski - of 1947, i.e. - according to the biography posted by Allan - dated from Malawski's third creative period:
In the third period Malawski wrote his finest, most effective and most audacious pieces, including the Toccata for small orchestra, the Etiudy symfoniczne for piano and orchestra, the Overture, the Toccata i fuga w formie wariacji [Toccata and Fugue in a form of variations] for piano and orchestra and the new version of The Peaks. These represented a total retreat from the late Romanticism which had survived in Polish music, even under the direct influence of Szymanowski, until after World War II.
link available at the Downloads section/Polish symphonics
ARTUR MALAWSKI (1904-1957)
Symphonic Etudes for Piano and Orchestra (1947)
Beata Bilińska, piano
Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna PR (Polish Radio National SO)/ cond. Tadeusz Wojciechowski
/off-radio recording, Oct. 2005/
as to recordings - the piece was in 60s issued by the Polish Muza (Polskie Nagrania) on LP with Regina Smendzianka, piano and Warsaw NationalPhilharmonic SO under Stanislaw Wislocki.
There is also another Polish Radio archive recording by Karol Radziwonowicz with Polish Radio Great SO (previous name of the PRNSO) under Marcin Nałecz-Niesiolowski
ARTUR MALAWSKI (1904-1957)
Wariacje na orkiestrę symfoniczną /Variations for Symphony Orchestra/ (1938)
Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna (PR&TV Polish Radio & TV Great SO) / cond. Janusz Przybylski
link available in the Downloads?Polish Symphonics
/off radio recording, 14.11.2005/
One piece for request by Greg
Kazimierz Wilkomirski was a half-brother by Wanda Wilkomirska, famous Polish violinist.
KAZIMIERZ WIŁKOMIRSKI (1900-1995)
Symphony concertante for Cello and Orchestra (1950)
1. Largamente. Maestoso ma non troppo
2. Andante
3. Vivace
Cecylia Barczyk, Cello
Orkiestra Symfoniczna PR w Krakowie (Polish Radio SO of Krakow/Cracow/ cond. Kazimierz Wiłkomirski
/off Polish Radio, May 2005/
Thanks very much for Rozycki's Piano Quintet, Mark, I'm really looking forward to hearing it.
likewise here, and - well, speaking for myself I don't know if the thread title was optimally chosen- Rozycki may have written only symphonic poems rather than symphonies (and the quintet is neither unless and until someone comes along and orchestrates it :) ) but again speaking only for myself I shouldn't worry too much about putting it in the thread.
and what do you think about the Piano Quintet by Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885)?
It is considered here as the best chamber music after Chopin.
There are several commercial recordings available.
I like very much an old LP recording with Wladyslaw Szpilman and Bronislaw Gimpel, Tadeusz Wronski, Stefan Kamasa and Aleksander Ciechanski.
There is also Polish Radio archive recording of the arrangement for piano and chamber/string orchestra. Very interesting from my point of view - as a fan of piano concertos.
I continue with Malawski's music
On the Dowloads you can find the link to:
ARTUR MALAWSKI (1904-1957)
Tryptyk góralski na małą orkiestrę /Mountaineers Triptych for Small Orchestra/ (1949)
1. Andante. Allegro con brio 3:40 2. Andante 3:17 3. Vivo 3:49
Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna PR /Polish Radio National SO / cond. Maciej Żółtowski
The piece is based on tuneful melodies of the Tatra/Podhale region - often employed by Polish comosers, e.g. Paderewski (his Tatra Album for piano), Zelenski, Noskowski, Szymanowski, and recently Gorecki, Kilar (in October there was prepiered here his 2nd Piano concerto with the finale based on one of let say mountaineers mofives) and many others.
There is also a Piano version of the Malawski's Triptych - issed a dozen years ago by DUX.
/off radio recording of Nov.2008/
A.S. - one correction in name: OPIENSKI :-)
Even in Poland his music is rather forgotten, but in 2004 Acte Prealable release a CD with his songs and a number of violin and piano music.
Zygmunt August and Barbara is - as far as I know - the only?? orchestral piece by Opienski recorded for radio archives.
Title reminds the true story of deep love of our King Zygmunt August (the last one from the Yagiellonian Dynasty) who fell in love to Barbara, woman of not aristocratic roots what was considered as scandal and caused serious protests among noblemen.
Thanks for the Statkowski quartet no.5! Looking forward to hearing it. (pub.1929, so the score is probably not PD-US and probably won't be able to download it too - though I may be able to find a library that has it.)
Thanks Marek, I modified composer's name ;)
A.S. - thank you for the Opienski symphonic poem! :) :)
It's an utterly gorgeous piece, and if I didn't know the composer I could have easily been persuaded that it was a newly discovered work by Stanford. Opienski - yet another amazing unsung talent - unknown outside Poland at least! :o
Markniew - The Różycki piano quintet is also a little gem - as one would expect from such a fine composer. Much appreciated :) :)
In the Dowloads you can find:
Ludomir Różycki (1884-1953)
Cello Sonata in A Minor op. 10 (1906)
Tomasz Strahl, cello
Edward Wolanin, Piano
/off radio recording, July 2004/
return to Artur Malawski
Wierchy (Peaks) - Ballet-pantomine for Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Choir and Orchestra (version of 1950)
libretto by Artur Malawski based on poetry of Jan Mazur (poet from the Tatra/Podhale region)
Colourful composition also emloying folklore of Tatra/Podhale region, with its tunes and melodies - of course not quoted literally but developed, elaborated. It can bo, to some extent, a follow-up of Harnasie by Szymanowski.
tracks do not correspond to the real parts of the bellet. In fact they are 6, each consisting of a number (from 2 to 5) sub-parts - descripted (unfortunately only in Polish) in track 6. If there is interest I will try to give more details.
ARTUR MALAWSKI (1904-1957)
Wierchy - balet pantomima (1944-50)
1. 6:41 2. 7:04 3. 10:15 4. 19:29
Barbara Harasimowicz-Has, soprano / Ryszard Minkiewicz, tenor
Marcin Bronikowski, baritone
Choir of the Polish Radio of Krakow
Polish Radio National SO (of Katowice)
cond. Tadeusz Wojciechowski
/off Polish Radio, 21.09.2008/
re the Rozycki Sonata "to the memory of Konstanty Sarnecki" (1906) its score can be found here (http://imslp.org/wiki/Cello_Sonata,_Op.10_(R%C3%B3%C5%BCycki,_Ludomir)). (Hrm. Have I heard this piece even though it's been rebroadcast by the BBC a number of times? Those last few bars for example look really good but not so familiar. Well, can listen to it now :) )
Finished listening to the Statkowski quartet. The finale has a very interesting form - fugue, passacaglia, then looser variations then coda? - and the whole work seems to me quite good- emotionally involving and formally "tight"- in a way that reminds me of my favorite works in the medium. Glad to be introduced to it.
another piece by Malawski
ARTUR MALAWSKI (1904-1957)
Toccata for small orchestra (1947)
Polska Orkiestra Radiowa (Polish Radio Orchestra [of Warsaw])
cond. Krzysztof Słowiński
/off radio Feb.2005 - rebroadcast of the live concert during The Warsaw Musical Meetings - May 2004/
Two colourful and melodious pieces by Stanislaw Wiechowicz based on Polish folklore
STANISŁAW WIECHOWICZ (1893-1963)
Kasia (Kate) - Suite for Two Clarinets and String Orchestra (1946)
1. Allegro comodo
2. Andante assai espressivo
3. Allegro moderato
4. Andante cantabile espressivo
5. Allegro moderato
Zenon Kitowski, Maciej Skórski, clarinets
String Ensemble of the Polska Orkiestra Radiowa [Polish Radio Ochestra {of Warsaw}]
cond. Andrzej Straszyński
/off radio, Nov.2008/
Chmiel (Hopvine) - Polish Wedding Dance for Symphony Orchestra (1927)
Orkiestra Polskiego Radia w Krakowie [Polish Radio O of Krakow]
cond. Zygmunt Rychert
/off radio Jan.2009/
Since there does not seem to be any music by Tadeusz Baird here I have uploaded his
'Goethe Briefe'
in a performance by Andrejz Hiolski(baritone) and the Austrian Radio Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra under Jan Krenz.
As requested (Composers Section) I have uploaded Act 1 of "Maria" by Roman Statkowski
link in the Downloads/Polish Music
live performance at the W. Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Hall, 21 Sep. 2008
then rebroadcasted during three night programs in January 2009, Act 1 - on 03.01.2009
Opera of 1906 (premiered in Warsaw), based on the poem by the romantic poet Antoni Malczewski (1793-1826) telling the story of love, war (with Tatars). Poem Maria is also called Ukrainian Roman due to the place where the story takes place - in 17th century eastern parts of Poland - Ukraine.
According to the radio comments opera was staged 4 times, for the last time in 1936.
During WW 2 score was partly lost . In 60s Kazimierz Wilkomirski, a pupil of Statkowski reconstructed the score.
It is not clear form me whether it was staged in this version before 2008.
Acts 2 and 3 I will uload tomorrow.
ROMAN STATKOWSKI (1859-1926)
Maria – Opera ater Poem by Antoni Malczewski (1906)
1. Akt I 42:16
Wioletta Chodowicz, sopran (Maria) / Dariusz Pietrzykowski, tenor (Wacław)
Artur Ruciński, baryton (Miecznik = Official, sword-bearer) / Wojciech Gierlach, bas (Wojewoda = Governor)
Katarzyna Rzymska, sopran (Pacholę = Lad)
Choir of Polish Radio
Polish Radio Orchestra (of Warsaw)
cond. Łukasz Borowicz
remaining acts of Maria by Statkowski have been uploaded (Dowloads/Polish)
act 2
performers
Wioletta Chodowicz, sopran (Maria) / Dariusz Pietrzykowski, tenor (Wacław)
Artur Ruciński, baryton (Miecznik) / Wojciech Gierlach, bas (Wojewoda)
Katarzyna Rzymska, sopran (Pacholę)
Krzysztof Kur, tenor / Remigiusz Łukomski, bas
act 3
performers
Wioletta Chodowicz, sopran (Maria) / Dariusz Pietrzykowski, tenor (Wacław)
Artur Ruciński, baryton (Miecznik) / Wojciech Gierlach, bas (Wojewoda)
Katarzyna Rzymska, sopran (Pacholę)
Krzysztof Kur, tenor (Szlachcic, Kozacy /Nobleman, Cossacs)
Remigiusz Łukomski, bas (Zmora, Rotmistrz, Kozacy, Maska / Nightmare, Cavalry Captain?, Cossacs, Masque)
Chór Polskiego Radia
Polska Orkiestra Radiowa
dyr. Łukasz Borowicz
/off radio: 17 Jan. 2009 (Act 2) and 31 Jan. 2009 (Act 3)/
Following start-up of the theme of Tadeusz Bird.
TADEUSZ BAIRD (1928-1981)
Symphony no. 2 (1952)
1. Largo
2. Allegro quasi variazioni
3. Finale
Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia / Polish Radio Great SO [of Katowice]
cond. Zbigniew Graca
/off Polish Radio, Jan. 2009/
Composer's biography can be found in the starting post by Alan /Composers and Music Section.
As Baird during his lifetime was one of quite frequently performed Polish composers so there are relatively many commercial recordings of his music - on LPs. After his premature death i 1981 the situation changed and his compositions are rather not well-known now. Few years ago the 2CD set with his music (reissue of LPs) was released by Polskie Nagrania company.
Symphony no. 2 - as far as I know - has not been commercially published either on LP, casstte or CDs.
You can dowload the following:
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981)
Sinfonietta for Orchestra (1949)
Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981)
Sinfonietta for Two String Orchestras (1956)
Jan Krenz (1926)
Rhapsody for Xylophone, tom-tom, Cattledroms, Celesta and String Orchestra (1952)
All three were members of so called "1949 Group" - see bio by Baird in the Composers section (It would be appreciated if Alan could kindly add bios by Kazimierz Serocki and Jan Krenz).
during that evening also that brilliant piece was performed:
Antoni Szalowski (1907-1973)
Overture for Orchestra (1936)
All these pieces were performed live at a concert in frame of 17th Warsawa Music Days(Encounters?) on 07 May 2003
Performers:
Polska Orkiestra Radiowa (Polish Radio Orchestra [of Warsaw]
cond. Krzysztof Slowinski
/taken off radio - cannot remeber whether that was live broadcast or rebroadcast/
Thanks, Atsushi, for uploading Nowowiejski's Symphony No.3 - although from 1936-7, it is still in a familiar late-Romantic style - perhaps with a greater degree of dissonance than in his earlier works, but there's nothing to frighten the horses. And my goodness, can Nowowiejski write climaxes! Very lush and meaty stuff.
Thanks Alan, I would like to say my big thank you for Polish radio. It's a great job indeed!
Quote from: Alan Howe on Friday 25 November 2011, 10:27
Thanks, Atsushi, for uploading Nowowiejski's Symphony No.3 ...
Hear, hear! :)
And the Jasinski is a very powerful work. Yet another unsung Polish composer...
Thanks
:)
Yes, I surprised too! Also interesting composer... ::)
Thank you, Atsushi.
I have downloaded Jasinski and Nowowiejski and wait for hearing, especially Nowowiejski!
As to Jasinski - he is a contemporary composer living in Szczecin (North-Western Poland).
6 years ago his Symphony "In principio" for baritone, choir and orchestra (2005) was performed and transmitted on radio - I got it. Are you interested?
And few words on Ludomir Michal Rogowski (1881-1954)
He was born in Lublin/Poland, studied with Noskowski (composing) and Mlynarski (conducting) and then with A. Nikish in Leipzig. Up to 19012 he used to conduct in Wilno (Vilnius), 1912-14 musical director of the Modern Theatre in Warsaw. During WW 1 he lived in France and Belgium, then back in Warsaw (1922-26). In 1926 he moved and settled in Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia) and lived there till his death.
According to my source he composed 7 symphonies, many symhonic poems, Bosnian Rhapsody, Dalmatinian Rhapsody, Krakowiak on theme by Chopin for piano and orchestra, chamber mmusic, piano music etc.
Rather not known and not performed in Poland - but as we can see played in Croatia!
Polish Acte Prealable has issued fragment of his Requiem (Panichida) ca. 10 years ago (coupled with Romuald Twardowski's pieces).
So far, with the exception of the Tadeusz Baird Symphony No.2, the Polish and Russian sections of the Downloads area are the two sections I have downloaded nothing from ;D
This is not because I have no interest-far from it-but because I have been so busy with uploading and with downloading from the British and American sections.
I can see myself being very busy in here once my main upload programme is complete in a few days ;D ;D
Marek, Thanks for information!
Of couese, I'm very interested in Jasinski's symphony :)
Belated thanks, Atsushi, for uploading Nowowiejski's Symphony No.3, which I look forward to hearing when I get home.
Few information on the works uploaded by Atsushi (from the radio comments)
Nowowiejski - Symphony No. 3 called also "Bialowieska" (Bialowieska Forest is the wild forest in North-Eastern Poland loacted on the Polish and Belarusian territories).
Live recording from the concert in 1994 innaugurating The Nowowiejski Organ Festival
Symphony's movements:
1. Allegro molto vivo, energico
2. Andante tranquillo con espressione
3. Scherzando. Tempo di marcia. Allegro
4. Lento tranquillamente. Moderato con pasione. Grave
Jasinski
also live performance given during the 6th Festival of Scred Music "Gaude Mater" on 02.05.1996,
Claromontane Basilica in Czestochowa
Listened to the Nowowiejski (one of 4 symphonies for orchestra in his output, no.4 with chorus etc., according to PL-Wikipedia? Perhaps written in the early 1930s- just guessing...?) Surprising and really impressive, and that formidable and memorable minor-mode ending - ... does anything give a key for the overall work, by the way?...
Thank you. Wonder if his two? concertos (piano and cello) are out there...
The music one hears or is pointed to here. :) :) ... Thanks again!
Dear Atsushi,
could you, or somebody else, register this night Polish Fantasy (3rd Dec. starting 02:00 till 06:00, Oilish Radio Program 2), please?
I cannot get it tomorrow and after tomrrow. and there are a nuber of pieces I do not have in my "archives".
here is the program - interested stuff has been bolded and underlined.
Marek
Fantazja polska
Antoni Szałowski Aria i Burleska, wyk. Andrzej Bauer – wiolonczela, Janusz Grzelązka – fortepian;
Kazimierz Wiłkomirski Symfonia koncertująca na wiolonczelę i orkiestrę, wyk. Cecylia Barczyk – wiolonczela i Orkiestra Polskiego Radia w Krakowie, dyr. Kazimierz Wiłkomirski;
Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm, wyk. Siegfried Palm – wiolonczela;
Krzysztof Baculewski: Rilke-Lieder na sopran i baryton solo oraz dwa chóry mieszane a cappella, wyk. Magdalena Szostak – sopran, Janusz Styszko – bas, Zespół Śpiewaków miasta Katowice ,,Camerata Silesia", dyr. Anna Szostak,
Krzysztof Baculewski: Gloria na alt solo i chór mieszany a cappella, wyk. Angelina Roch-Domagała – alt, Camerata Silesia, dyr. Anna Szostak;
Grażyna Bacewicz: II Koncert wiolonczelowy, wyk. Roman Jabłoński – wiolonczela, Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia, dyr. Tadeusz Strugała;
Joanna Wnuk-Nazarow:a Psalmy przyszłości do słów Zygmunta Krasińskiego, wyk. ,,Camerata Silesia", dyr. Anna Szostak;
Piotr Moss: Musique en trois mouvements, wyk. Barbara Marcinkowska – wiolonczela, Zespół Kameralny Polskiego Radia i Telewizji, dyr. Jan Pruszak;
Maciej Małecki: Pieśni miłosne do słów Kazimierza Przerwy-Tetmajera, wyk. Chór Polskiego Radia, dyr. Małgorzata Orawska;
Joanna Bruzdowicz: Concerto The Cry of Phoenix, wyk. Tomasz Strahl – wiolonczela, Orkiestra Filharmonii Lubelskiej, dyr. Wojciech Michniewski;
Józef Świder Pieśni, wyk. Chór Polskiego Radia, dyr. Bronisława Wietrzny;
Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński: Espresssione, wyk. Roman Jabłoński – wiolonczela, Polska Orkiestra Radiowa, dyr. Monika Solińska;
Andrzej Kurylewicz: W Weronie do słów Cypriana Kamila Norwida, wyk. Chór i Orkiestra Polskiego Radia w Krakowie, dyr. Jerzy Katlewicz;
Marta Ptaszyńska: Graffito, wyk. Sun-Min Shim – marimba;
Witold Lutosławski: Wariacja Sacherowska, wyk. Piotr Janosik – wiolonczela,
Witold Lutosławski: Wariacje na temat Paganiniego, wyk. Lutosławski Piano Duo;
Krzysztof Penderecki: Cadenza, wyk. Szymon Krzeszowiec – skrzypce
eschiss1,
Piano cto was recorded for radio archives in 70s - I do have it off radio. don't know if the cello cto has been ever recorded - I think it has not.
Hi Marek.
OK. I will record all programs ;)
thank you, Atsushi.
Hello Marek,
I uploaded all of your interests. Enjoy these ;)
Hello Atsushi,
thank you for this uplading :D
Let us hear how this music sounds!
Quote from: eschiss1 on Thursday 01 December 2011, 19:04
Listened to the Nowowiejski (one of 4 symphonies for orchestra in his output, no.4 with chorus etc., according to PL-Wikipedia? Perhaps written in the early 1930s- just guessing...?) Surprising and really impressive, and that formidable and memorable minor-mode ending - ... does anything give a key for the overall work, by the way?...
Eric, there is no definite key for the symphony. I just listened to it, it somehow moves here and there. The beginning is in D Major and so are large parts of the piece, but both the end of the first and of the last movement are in C Minor - however it's clearly no symphony in C Minor either. It's simply a work without fixed key. As far as I could find out, it was written in 1940 (at least, MGG states this year).
In any case, it's a very interesting superbly coloured piece which I enjoy a lot.
Just listening to Lefeld's symphony now and enjoying it. Something at the end of its slow movement though- is it at all possible he knew Myaskovsky's 2nd symphony of a few years earlier? There are many points of contact, even near? quote-passages it seems, between the codas of the works' slow movements...
The full details of the Novakovski Piano Quintet are:
Józef NOWAKOWSKI (1800-1865)
Piano Quintet No.2 in E-flat Major op. 17 (1857)
I. Allegro
II. Scherzo
III. Andante
IV. Allegro
Mihaela Ursuleasa, piano; Rainers Honeks, violin; Kristians Frons, viola;
Arto Norass, cello & Jureks Dibals, double bass
Great Mark!
I knew about that recording but never got it!
I do have poor live recording of pf quintet/sextet (cannot remember, must check) by Krogulski, also nice music
QuoteArto Norass, cello
Actually, that should be Noras with one 's'. This wonderful Finnish cellist recorded my favorite version of the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata many years ago, for Finlandia Records.
Quote from: Mark Thomas on Wednesday 07 December 2011, 13:50
The full details of the Novakovski Piano Quintet are:
Józef NOWAKOWSKI (1800-1865)
Piano Quintet No.2 in E-flat Major op. 17 (1857)
I. Allegro
II. Scherzo
III. Andante
IV. Allegro
Mihaela Ursuleasa, piano; Rainers Honeks, violin; Kristians Frons, viola;
Arto Norass, cello & Jureks Dibals, double bass
Finally got this downloaded today. Thanked Jerry appropriately, BTW. Hmmm. Sound rather - Hummelian. Yeah, the idiom is rather retro for its date of composition, and the piano technique sounds more like Hummel than Chopin or Liszt. But it's enjoyable nonetheless.
On first hearing I thought it sounded rather "thumpy" but then I realized that this is a little different configuration of instruments - a double bass instead of the second violin....
Jerry
There were quite a few quintets for that combination I think, especially early into the 19th century (and as late as Hermann Goetz and a few into the 20th century...)
Nowowiejski's Opus 30? "Quo vadis" in an English translated vocal score is now at Sibley (probably soon at IMSLP too, ... hrm)
I listened some symphonic works by Fitelberg ,Morawski and Nowowiejski today.
Wonderful works....
Especially , I enjoyed to listen Don Quichote by Morawski. Very Richard Straussian symphonic poem !
Thanks Marek :)
Atsushi
Hi members,
I modified my upload of Symphony no.2 by Maklakiewicz. Because, it have many sound interrupts.
I tried to restore this recording.
Unfortunatelly, noise are still remain. But many interrupt of music were deleted.
It's my best. I hope members will like new version.
Thanks :)
Atsushi
Thank you. It sounds great now. Maklakiewicz is a long neglected follower of Szymanowski and a very fine composer.
I just uploaded Symphonic poem "Grunwald" by Maklakiewicz
Different from his hyper-Szymanowskian Symphony No.2, this work is written in more traditional late romantic style.
Anyway, this is fine work in my view.
Looking forward to this. Many links are not working any more for Maklakiewicz (esp. Vc conc, and Sym. Vars.) or Malawski -- is there a way to access these pieces? Thanks for anyone's help - would love to hear these pieces.
Btw I have just listened to the Maklakiewicz 2nd Symphony again. It's fantastic. The performance took place just up the road from here -- how did I miss it? Must have been playing a concert somewhere in another country. Or perhaps I wasn't aware enough of his name to take notice. Now I am. But I suppose there will be a 20-year wait until the piece is played again :-(
Quote from: A.S on Friday 25 November 2011, 10:18
More Polish music...
http://www.mediafire.com/?0cj4165q5oi0895 (http://www.mediafire.com/?0cj4165q5oi0895)
Ludomir Michal Rogowski (1881-1954)
1. Dubrovačke impresije: (1950)
2. Symphony no.4
Simfoniski Orkestar Hrvatske Radio Televizije
Conductor : Tomislava Fačinija (maybe)
I found it from Croatian radio.
But I couldn't found information of conductor.
I guess conductor is Tomislava Fačinija from announce.
If anyone know it, please tell me correct information ???
Oops, I forgot to write ...
Recorded from Croatian radio (HR3 CROATIA - HRT) at 20.Nov.2011
The conductor is Tomislav Faccini. What you heard is the genitive case of his name! ;)
Quote from: isokani on Friday 23 December 2011, 14:59
Looking forward to this. Many links are not working any more for Maklakiewicz (esp. Vc conc, and Sym. Vars.) or Malawski -- is there a way to access these pieces? Thanks for anyone's help - would love to hear these pieces.
Hello Isokani,
I have renewed the links to the Cell Cto and Prague Overture by Maklakiewicz.
I was sure the links are available for long time but can see they expire after rather short time. Perhams there is good way to set them to last longer.
As to Malawski - what piecesa rae no longer available? I will renew them also.
Marek
Hi!
The new version is absolutely wonderful! I love this symphopny because it reminds me of Szymanowski and I love Szymanowski,
Hi malito, It's my pleasure ;) I also love Szymanowski ! Wonderful symphony indeed ;D
Marek - just a general "thank you" for all the marvellous Polish music you've been uploading. It's a great pleasure to explore these works and to discover hidden treasures. :) :)
Great to have the Maklakiewicz cello concerto! Was listening to it last night -- a real treat. Thanks very much. Any more of his available?? I might see if I can check Katowice Academy Library...
as to Maklakiewicz so except the pices already uploaded I do have only the following
Triptich op. 18 for cello and piano (1927)
9 Japanese Songs for soprano and orchestra (1930)
Concertino quasi una fantasia for soprano, piano and orchestra (1930) - fine piece!
"Zlota kaczka" (Golden Duck) - suite from the ballet (1950)"
Perhaps you can find more in Katowice
Quote from: semloh on Friday 06 January 2012, 21:50
Marek - just a general "thank you" for all the marvellous Polish music you've been uploading. It's a great pleasure to explore these works and to discover hidden treasures. :) :)
Hello semloh,
it's nice to hear that :-)
I will keep uploading lesser-well known Polish music. most of it has been taken off radio from the Polish Radio archives. only small part was issued ever commercially.
Quote from: A.S on Friday 06 January 2012, 09:30
Hi malito, It's my pleasure ;) I also love Szymanowski ! Wonderful symphony indeed ;D
Hi A.S.
also thanks for renewed Symphony by Maklakiewicz :)
Having spent the last week downloading Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Swiss, Swedish, Austrian, German, French, Italian and Dutch Music(with the Latvians, the Japanese and the other Balkans the previous week) and the New World Composers coming up this weekend ;D ;D I think that I just about am ready to finally get round to the massive number of Polish downloads next week............... :)
Quote from: markniew on Friday 06 January 2012, 22:27
as to Maklakiewicz so except the pices already uploaded I do have only the following
Triptich op. 18 for cello and piano (1927)
9 Japanese Songs for soprano and orchestra (1930)
Concertino quasi una fantasia for soprano, piano and orchestra (1930) - fine piece!
"Zlota kaczka" (Golden Duck) - suite from the ballet (1950)"
Perhaps you can find more in Katowice
Hearing these would be great, if you have time.
I have just started uploading some Russian and Austrian things... Kornauth, Conus, Eiges, Blumenfeld, Obukhov, Protopopov... etc
The Piano Concerto by Jerzy Gablenz is a great pleasure and masterfully orchestrated. How on earth did he come by such skill! A fascinating biography, and a list of his compositions, can be found at:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/gablenz.html
I wonder what treasures lie hidden in that list! :)
And, how many more would have emerged had he not lost his life so soon.... :(
Thanks Marek for Gablenski, one of my favorite piano concertos ever, can't wait to hear more music by him.
Marek,
I have spent much of today working my way through the Polish Downloads section but have run up against a problem.
A number of works on Page 1 of the section, specifically:
Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano Concerto
Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz: Concerto alla barocco
Kazimierz Wilkomirksi: Symphony Concertante for cello and orchestra
Piotr Moss: 'Visages': Concerto for Oboe and orchestra
Feliks Nowowiejski: Oratorio "Quo Vadis"
Wladyslaw Zelenski: Piano Concerto
are in links which no longer work.
The links are to www.sendspace.com and when I follow the link I get a message saying that the file has been removed.
Is there any possibility of you being able to upload these works again to Mediafire?
More problems, I am afraid :(
The links to the following works are now invalid:
Artur Malawski: "Hungaria 1956"
Symphonic Etudes for piano and orchestra
Variations for Symphony Orchestra
Mountaineers' Triptych
Kazimierz Wilkomirski: Symphony Concertante for Cello and Orchestra
Any possibility of them being restored?
Quote from: Dundonnell on Monday 09 January 2012, 02:10
More problems, I am afraid :(
Dear me, Colin, you are having fun! I can just picture your gnashing of teeth and cries of exasperation! ;D ;D
Sorry, my
schadenfreude is in poor taste.
I am sure the uploaders will take pity, and they'll soon be available again! :) :)
Quote from: semloh on Monday 09 January 2012, 07:28
Quote from: Dundonnell on Monday 09 January 2012, 02:10
More problems, I am afraid :(
Dear me, Colin, you are having fun! I can just picture your gnashing of teeth and cries of exasperation! ;D ;D
Sorry, my schadenfreude is in poor taste.
I am sure the uploaders will take pity, and they'll soon be available again! :) :)
Well, it wasn't quite that bad but it is frustrating ;D
Obviously new members are joining this forum and other members are trying to catch-up on a backlog of downloads so they would hope to gain access to music which was available but seems to have disappeared.
Hoping that these files can be restored :)
Yes, I will restore the files uploaded before.
I wonder how to make them available for lon than month or so. Any idea?
If you use Mediafire I am not sure why files should disappear at all. There are files in my own Mediafire collection which have been there for many months.
Some of my first uploads were on a site other than MediaFire and they were deleted after, what? = maybe 90 days if I didn't become a paying member. Which I didn't...
Jerry
renewed link to uploads of some Polish music (inc. Bacewicz and Paciorkiewicz) is available in Downloads/Polish music of 11 Sep.
Thank you, Marek :)
That Gablenz PC is massive! Any chance of getting the movement titles somewhere?
renewed links to all earlier uploaded pieces by Malawski are available in Downloads/Polish Music
also new link to the Piano cto by Zelenski is available
Thanks for all your hard work, Marek.
continuation of my hard work :) - renewed link to Quo vadis by Nowowiejski - also in the Downloads/Polish music
Indeed :) :)
Thank you so very much for doing all this :)
Marek, you better check that link to the Zelenski PC. I tried to download it twice, and when I tried to unzip it my computer informed me that the file was "invalid or corrupted"both times. You may have to upload it again.
Once again I have renewed the link to PC by Zelenski
one more renewal - Cello Symphony by Wilkomirski. Hard work, really. I wish I uploaded new things :)
Quote from: markniew on Thursday 12 January 2012, 21:39
one more renewal - Cello Symphony by Wilkomirski. Hard work, really. I wish I uploaded new things :)
...but we love your for it, Marek! :)
Quote from: markniew on Thursday 12 January 2012, 21:04
Once again I have renewed the link to PC by Zelenski
OK. I'm going to try to download it again. I'll let you know if it works this time.
Nope. Same message when I try to open the downloaded file: "The Compressed (zipped) file is invalid or corrupted."
The Zelenski Piano Concerto link worked for me :)
......BUT I cannot find the Wilkomirski renewed link. Where is it located please ???
Is it the same link? On the first page?
Yes :)
If you would be so kind, then, as to WeTransfer your copy to me I would appreciate it.
Quote from: JimL on Wednesday 11 January 2012, 06:03
That Gablenz PC is massive! Any chance of getting the movement titles somewhere?
on other self-burnt CD I have found movements of the PC by Gablenz:
I Allegro moderato
II Andante
III Allegro
Thanks! I'm going to mark them when I get back from Texas.
thank you Atsushi for Serocki.
here we have an example of the "socialist-realistic" piece. I will go through my inventory and find some other such compositions.
Marek, I also thanks for music by JERZY GABLENZ. :)
I have his symphonic poems. ("The Pilgrim", and, "Legend of Turbacz" ) Both works are beautiful and rich orchestrated music.
He is forgotten ' Tone-master ' indeed !
in the Downloads/Polish Music you can find:
KAZIMIERZ SIKORSKI [/b] (1895-1986)
Symphony no. 3 "Concerto grosso" (1953)
his bio is available on the PWM website:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=2
as well as the list of his works:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=3
Thank you very much for such interesting music!! :)
Ludomir Rozycki's piano quintet seems to be dead. Can you repost it?
Thanks
[Didier: you must post replies like this in the appropriate thread in the Discussion board here, NOT in the Downloads board, which is only for posts and replies which have download links. Mark]
Quote from: markniew on Friday 03 February 2012, 19:21
in the Downloads/Polish Music you can find:
KAZIMIERZ SIKORSKI [/b] (1895-1986)
Symphony no. 3 "Concerto grosso" (1953)
his bio is available on the PWM website:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=2
as well as the list of his works:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=3
I'm about to upload his 4th-- I didn't see it on this site when I last checked.
Does anyone have any work by his son, Tomascz (sp?)? I'm curious-- he supposedly had an interesting approach to minimalism.
I've posted the Symphony for Strings by Stanisław Skrowaczewski in the downloads section. I am currently listing him as Polish, although it seems he has been living in the US for the last few decades.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/SkrowaJapan2011.jpg)
He seems to have left a big enough internet footprint
Wikepedia:
Stanisław Skrowaczewski (pronounced [staˌniswav skrɔvaˈtʃɛfskʲi]; born October 3, 1923) is an internationally known classical conductor and composer. He was born in Lvov (then in Poland, now in Ukraine) and became best known for his work with the Minnesota Orchestra.
As a child, he studied piano and violin; displaying talent on the piano at an early age, he made his public debut playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. Unfortunately, a hand injury ended his piano career.
After World War II, Skrowaczewski became the music director of the Wrocław Philharmonic, then the Katowice Philharmonic, the Kraków Philharmonic and finally the Warsaw National Orchestra. He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1956 he won the Santa Cecilia Competition for Conductors.
At the invitation of George Szell, Skrowaczewski conducted the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1960 he was appointed music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (later renamed the Minnesota Orchestra under his tenure in 1968), a position he held until 1979 when he became conductor laureate. In 1981 the American Composers' Forum commissioned the Clarinet Concerto, which Skrowaczewski wrote for Minnesota Orchestra principal clarinetist Joe Longo, who premiered it in 1981.
Between 1983 and 1992 he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.
Between 1995 and 1997, Skrowaczewski served as artistic advisor to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. From 1984 to 1991, he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, and in 1988, was composer-in-residence for the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer season at Saratoga. He has guest-conducted that orchestra, and many others, all over the world.
His complete set of recordings of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, made with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, has received much acclaim, as has his 2005-06 complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the orchestra. Another noted recording is his Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with soloist Gina Bachauer.
Skrowaczewski's Passacaglia Immaginaria, completed in 1995, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestral Association to honor the memory of Ken and Judy Dayton, it was premiered at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis in 1996.
The Chamber Concerto was commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in memory of Leopold Sipe, their first music director. The Concerto for Orchestra received a Pulitzer nomination in 1999.
He received the Commander Order of the White Eagle, the highest order conferred by the Polish government, as well as the Gold Medal of the Mahler-Bruckner Society, the 1973 Ditson Conductor's Award, and the 1976 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.
He is the father of Paul Sebastien, founder of electronica groups Psykosonik and Basic Pleasure Model.
Dr. Frederick Harris Jr., director of the MIT Wind Ensemble, has written the official biography of Skrowaczewski. [1]
From the USC Polish Music Center:
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, born on 3 October 1923 in Lwów (now: Lviv, Ukraine), studied piano, conducting and composition at the Lwów Music Academy and at the Cracow Conservatory. In 1946 he took over as conductor the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later he won the Szymanowski Composition Prize and went to Paris where he completed his studies under Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Honegger and Paul Kletzki. He returned to Poland in 1949 and was appointed conductor of the Katowice State Philharmonic Orchestra (until 1954). From 1955 to 1957 he was principal conductor of the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1956 he won first prize in the International Conductors' Competition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. As a result of this success, he was appointed one of the leading conductors of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Skrowaczewski left Poland in 1960 and took over from Antal Dorati at the head of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (which later became the Minnesota Orchestra). He retained this position until 1979 when he resigned in order to concentrate on being a guest conductor and on composing. He took up a permanent position again from 1984 to 1991 as principal conductor of the Orchestra in Manchester. In 1987 and 1988 he was also musical director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Minnesota). It is to him that we owe the first public performances of Jacob Druckman's Incenters (1973), and Krzysztof Penderecki's The Dream of Jacob (1974). His compositions include symphonies, instrumental works, chamber and film music, but he prefers not to conduct them himself, serving instead as a champion of new music. In 1998, his recording of Bruckner's Symphony no. 9 (conducting the Minnesota Orchestra) received the Golden Note Award for the best original recording in its category.
I think that you have correctly classified Skrowaczewski as Polish conductor and composer.
If someone considers him as American the's also OK.
As similar case: Andrzej Panufnik - he was Polish or British composer?
Born and trained in Poland, till early 50s he lived and was active in Poland, he composed here his first symphonic pieces. then for 40 years he stayed and in UK
Quote from: markniew on Friday 10 February 2012, 20:13
I think that you have correctly classified Skrowaczewski as Polish conductor and composer.
If someone considers him as American the's also OK.
As similar case: Andrzej Panufnik - he was Polish or British composer?
Born and trained in Poland, till early 50s he lived and was active in Poland, he composed here his first symphonic pieces. then for 40 years he stayed and in UK
Regarding Panufnik, it is a very difficult issue. He certainly took British nationality, was knighted as "Sir Andrzej", and died in Britain but I can quite understand it if the Poles want to reclaim him :)
Let us consider him as Polish and British composer :-)
I wonder if it is acceptable to upload his Symphony of Peace from early 50s - the piece that he decided to remove from the catalogue of his works.
I hope so :) :)
So I will do it soon - old radio recording from that particular time before his leaving
During Skrowaczewski's tenure with the Minnesota, he fine tuned it into the world class ensemble that it is today; no doubt about it. His interpretations were always crisp, sharp and often on the brisk side. He had a huge penchant for avant-garde music and programmed something new every single subscription concert. And of course, never at the end....... He premiered a couple of his compositions while here. They were not to my taste either.
He annually makes guest appearances with the orchestra and is always greeted with great warmth and respect by audiences and musicians alike. At nearly 90 he still wields a wicked baton.
His recording of Bruckner 9 mentioned above, was recorded after a concert which memorialized the first anniversary of President Kennedy's death and is one of those performances that I'll never forget.....
Jerry
Il Piffero della notte - Fantasy for Flute and Orchestra (2007) by Skrowaczewski available in the Downloads/Polish Music
Quote from: didier2006 on Thursday 09 February 2012, 00:08
Thank you very much for such interesting music!! :)
Ludomir Rozycki's piano quintet seems to be dead. Can you repost it?
Thanks
Didier,
here is the renewed link to Różycki's Piano Quintet
http://www.mediafire.com/?ova2yd3oa6d6j6d
I've uploaded the 4th Symphony by Polish Composer Kazimierz Sikorski in the downloads section.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Kazimierz_sikorski.jpg/220px-Kazimierz_sikorski.jpg)
A little about the Kazmierz: -- pulled from the web
Sikorski studied in Warsaw, first music at the Warsaw Conservatory and then philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He then studied in Lwów, which was Polish at the time, and Paris.[2] In 1926, he became a teacher of composition at the Conservatory of Poznań. From 1927 to 1945, he taught at the Warsaw Conservatory. He was rector of the State Higher School of Music in Łódź. From 1951 to 1966, he taught music theory and composition at the Music Academy Warsaw. During this time, he was president of the Polish Composers' Union. He is the father of the composer, Tomasz Sikorski.[3]
Sikorski composed four symphonies, a symphonic allegro, two overtures (1945, 1954), some instrumental concertos, of which the clarinet concerto (1947) is the most important, a string sextet, three string quartets, choral and film music, including the music for the film Warsaw Premiere (Polish: Warszawska premiera), for which he won a State Award.[2]
I'm curious if there are any works by his son Tomacz floating around—I gather he was type of minimalist, and I'd like to hear some of his work.
The Glinowski link appears to have some glitch or problem; it will not connect to Mediafire.
Looking forward to hearing the Sikorski 4th symphony. The Symphony No.3 *Concerto grosso" posted on here some days ago is a most excellent and truly delightful piece, very old-fashioned no doubt but nevertheless highly enjoyable :)
Thank you jowcol for the Sikorski's 4th.
I do have in my archive movements 1 and 2 - such it was broadcast few years go.
I'll see the work in its entirety.
Do you have also others? I do the 6th
Hi Jowcol,
yes, Kazimierz Sikorski's son Tomasz was in fact more modern composer with rather contemporary and difficult musical language. I do have a number of his works - if there is an interest I can upload them somewhen.
Quote from: markniew on Sunday 12 February 2012, 11:27
Hi Jowcol,
yes, Kazimierz Sikorski's son Tomasz was in fact more modern composer with rather contemporary and difficult musical language. I do have a number of his works - if there is an interest I can upload them somewhen.
I would appreciate listening to one or two works you may feel either have better sound or are more approachable, whenever it is convenient to you. But I would not upload the whole collection at once.
No matter what, I've really enjoyed your uploads-- I have a lot I still need to listen to But it is better to have too much music than too lilttle.
Any more Kazimierz Sikorski works that anyone can upload will be more than welcome by me! I like what I've heard.
Quote from: Latvian on Sunday 12 February 2012, 23:13
Any more Kazimierz Sikorski works that anyone can upload will be more than welcome by me! I like what I've heard.
I don't have them-- but I will check around....
Many thanks to markniew for the Panufnik Symphony of Peace :) As a great admirer of Panufnik's music this was one work I had been hoping to hear for a long time.
Now all that is needed is for CPO to get round to issuing the Metasinfonia(Symphony No.7) on cd :)
I'm in the last movement of the Symphony of Peace by Panufnik. It is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!
another piece compoesed during the so called Socialist Realism era.
once again the question appears: should we forget about such pieces?
Of course the problem regards mainly the post-comunist countries. Composers of the "free world" were more lucky.
they were not instructed or pressed to create music that had to support particular ideology.
STANISŁAW SKROWACZEWSKI (1923)
Cantata on Peace (1951) to the text of "Poem on Stalin" by Władysław Broniewski
1. Andante
2. Allegro molto
3. Lagio (?)
4. Andante maestoso
Lidia Skowron, soprano
Choir and the Symphony Orchestra of the Krakow Philharomics
cond. Bohdan Wodiczko
Broniewski - author of the text was very interesting and complex poet
his short biogram can be found in wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Broniewski
To answer your question, personally I have absolutely no difficulty with listening to and appreciating the music written by composers like Panufnik and Skrowaczewski during the era of Socialist Realism.
If we did indeed forget about their music then by the same token we would have to dismiss virtually all the Rumanian and Bulgarian music which has been so generously uploaded for us here, not to mention the Russian/Soviet music.
The Panufnik Symphony of Peace is a gorgeously beautiful work and, it is my understanding, that Panufnik withdrew it, partly at least, because he thought it too long (this despite the protests of Leopold Stokowski who had given the work its western premiere in Detroit). What I have heard so far of the Skrowaczewski Cantata may not necessarily have much in kin with later Skrowaczewski but it seems nevertheless a work of emotional conviction.
I've uploaded the Violin Concerto by Paul Kletzki. I've classified him as Polish, but as you will see in the excerpts below, the story is more complicated. I'm also curious if anyone has a recording of his 3rd symphony referenced below.
(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/6459805.jpg)
Wikipedia Entry:
Born Paweł Klecki in Łódź, Poland, he later adopted the German spelling Paul Kletzki. He joined its Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of fifteen. After serving in the First World War, he studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw before moving to Berlin in 1921 to continue his studies. During the 1920s his compositions were championed by Arturo Toscanini; and Wilhelm Furtwängler, who permitted Kletzki to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1925. Because he was Jewish, he left Nazi Germany in 1933 and moved to Italy, however due to the anti-semitism of the Italian Fascist regime he moved to the Soviet Union in 1936 but had to flee during Joseph Stalin's Great Terror and went to live in Switzerland.
Kletzki's most notable work is his Third Symphony, completed in October 1939, with the subtitle 'In memoriam'. It is an elegiac work interpreted as a moving monument to the victims of Nazism. Other works include two string quartets, a Sinfonietta for strings, a Fantasy for piano, and a sonata for violin and piano. From 1942 onwards Kletzki wrote no more compositions; he argued that Nazism had destroyed his spirit and his will to compose. During the Holocaust a number of Kletzki's family were murdered by the Nazis including his parents and his sister.
In the post-war years Kletzki was a renowned conductor, especially of Gustav Mahler. In 1954 he was appointed chief conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Between 1958 and 1961 he was principal conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. From 1966 until 1970 he was the General Music Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
Naxos Biography:
PAUL KLETZKI
Paul Kletzki was born into a vigorous Jewish community and began his musical studies early, quickly gaining recognition for his skills both as a violinist and as a pianist. He attended the Warsaw Conservatory, where he was taught by the violinist and conductor Emil Młynarski, and also Warsaw University; and moved to Berlin in 1921 to continue his studies at the High School for Music where he came under the influence of two major figures of the period: the composer Arnold Schoenberg and the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. Kletzki was leader of the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra from 1916 to 1919, but saw himself primarily as a composer. He wrote a significant body of work between 1921 and 1933, including two large symphonies, a capriccio, three string quartets and at least twenty songs, and made his conducting debut in 1923 in a concert of his own music. Furtwängler also performed Kletzki's music, recommending his work to the publisher Simrock and inviting him to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1928 in a programme that included his violin concerto. This was well received, as was his piano concerto at its first performance in Leipzig in 1932. All his compositions were published, but were then proscribed by the National Socialist Party when it came to power in 1933, and as a result Kletzki's publishers destroyed all his printed music and melted down their printing plates.
Kletzki fled to Italy, taking printed and manuscript copies of his music with him in a metal trunk and teaching in Milan at the Scuola Superiore di Musica. During 1937 and 1938 he also held the post of chief conductor of the Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia, but had to quit this position because he was of Polish origin. Mussolini's Fascists were no kinder towards Jews than the Nazis, with the result that in 1939 Kletzki was forced to flee once again. Unable to take his trunk of music with him, he hid it in a basement near Milan's opera house, La Scala, and settled in Switzerland with his wife, who was Swiss. Here he wrote his last works, including his Symphony No. 3 of 1939, subtitled 'In Memoriam'. Kletzki has been quoted as saying that the Holocaust, and the loss of his music (and especially the fact that his publisher had even melted down the printing plates) killed in him the desire to compose. During World War II he taught at the Lausanne Conservatory, and between 1943 and 1949 he conducted the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in concerts which helped him to establish an international reputation. He appeared in Paris shortly after the liberation, conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 1, and was invited by Toscanini to participate in the celebrations surrounding the re-opening of La Scala in 1946. In the autumn of that year Walter Legge invited him to record with his recently formed Philharmonia Orchestra, which he also conducted in concerts, as well as the London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras.
For the rest of Kletzki's life his conducting career flourished. He appeared regularly throughout Europe as a guest conductor, becoming a Swiss citizen in 1949, and toured Australia in 1948, once again performing some of the symphonies of Mahler. With the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra he appeared on tour in Europe during 1955, having previously with this orchestra recorded for Legge and the Columbia label in 1954 Mahler's Symphony No. 9 and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Kletzki was chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for the 1954–1955 season, but, as had previously been his experience in Russia, was unable to continue in this role because of British Civil Service rules concerning the engagement of foreigners. He made his American debut in 1957 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and also led concerts with the Chicago Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestras. The success of these appearances resulted in him being appointed as chief conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for three seasons between 1958 and 1961: together with Antal Dorati he is credited in Dallas with significantly developing the orchestra's playing standards. The cellist Mimi McShane, who was hired by Kletzki, had vivid recollections of his time in Dallas: 'He was very European, very old-fashioned. He liked to throw tantrums, but everybody really respected him, and what he said about the music was the word of God. As a conductor, his technique was perfect. He didn't really get along with the Dallas social scene, though. I imagine the Dallas lifestyle was very alien to him.'
Kletzki left the Dallas orchestra ostensibly because of its inability to secure a recording contract, and henceforth confined himself to appearances in Europe because of his wife's weakening health. Later appointments included the chief conductorships of the Berne Symphony Orchestra (1964–1967) and of Ernest Ansermet's Suisse Romande Orchestra (1967–1970), with which its founder maintained a close connection until his death in 1969. Kletzki returned to his musical roots late in his life through guest appearances with the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, with whom he recorded a much-admired cycle of the Beethoven symphonies. In 1965 a construction crew working near La Scala in Milan found the metal trunk in which he had placed his music before World War II, but Kletzki was never to open it, afraid that, having lost his music once, it might have been destroyed a second time by nature. He died unexpectedly in 1973 while working with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Interviewed by Tully Potter, the leader of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Peter Rybar, gave a graphic description of Kletzki as a conductor: 'He conducted very well, with lovely gestures – it was very professional conducting – and he was very emotional, he was almost crying sometimes.' The same point is made by the biographer of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Stephen Pettitt, who also noted Kletzki's useful background as a string player: 'Kletzki's experience as a player made his conducting gestures particularly sympathetic to the strings of the Philharmonia Orchestra, to whose tone he brought a bloom – 'the burning sound!' as he demanded from them. He was a very emotional conductor, too; his desire for warmth of string sound came from this emotionalism. "Cry it!" he would beg, tears rolling down his cheeks as if in sympathy, and the tone came.'
Kletzki's discography is large. He recorded consistently from the advent of tape recording and the long-playing record until his death: initially for EMI, and subsequently for several other labels, notably the Concert Hall Record Club, Decca and Supraphon. He was equally adept as a symphonic conductor and as an accompanist. Among his many outstanding records are very fine accounts of Mahler's Symphonies Nos 1 and 4 and Das Lied von der Erde (with Murray Dickie and Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau); Sibelius's Symphonies Nos 1 and 2; Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique' and Manfred Symphony; and a powerful reading of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, as well as numerous shorter works. Two outstanding concerto recordings are Berg's Violin Concerto, with the Belgian violinist André Gertler, and Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Maurizio Pollini. For Concert Hall Kletzki added Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and Beethoven's Symphonies Nos 1, 3, 5 and 6 to his recorded repertoire. His final recordings for Decca, with the Suisse Romande Orchestra, maintained this high standard, and included emotional accounts of Rachmaninov's Symphonies Nos 2 and 3 and Nielsen's Symphony No. 5, as well as Hindemith's Symphony, Mathis der Maler and Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra. As the archives of many European radio stations are gradually explored in depth, more performances conducted by Kletzki have appeared. These include refulgent accounts of Brahms's Double Concerto, with Adolf and Hermann Busch and the French National Radio Orchestra, and of the same composer's Symphony No. 4 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
thank you for the Kletzki.
Yes, I do recordings of his symphonies nos 2 and 3. must check
I have the Kletzki 3rd on the BIS disc. It was released around the same time that CPO released the Klemperer symphonies and were beginning their Weingartner series. There seemed to be a bit of a vogue for recording the compositions of composers who had much more fame as conductors. I don't recall being overly impressed by the Kletzki 3rd but I am certainly happy to give him another shot :)
Quote from: Dundonnell on Thursday 16 February 2012, 13:38
There seemed to be a bit of a vogue for recording the compositions of composers who had much more fame as conductors.
Speaking of that vogue, I did go an a Markevich binge a few months ago, some of his works I really liked. (and I didn't mention Bernstein-- until now...)
So, did anybody ever open that trunk after he died?
Quote from: JimL on Thursday 16 February 2012, 15:19
So, did anybody ever open that trunk after he died?
Yes.....and the scores inside were intact :)
Thanks for uploading of the operettta by Szymanowski :)
I am not quite sure which Skrowaczewski symphony has actually been uploaded.
The link says that it is the Symphony of 2003 which was, apparently, entitled "Symphony In Memory of Ken Dayton" but the file itself is titled Symphony No.3-a symphony which was, I believe, composed in 1946. No doubt the commentary makes it clear which symphony it is but since I cannot understand Polish........ :(
It is in fact his Symphony no. 3. That was the Polish premiere of the piece. According to the commentary world premier took place in 2003 with The Minnesota SO.
Thanks for that information :)
Mark, thank you for the pieces by ŻELEŃSKI. Lovely music! :)
I even enjoyed the Polish vocal! ;D
I have uploaded what I believe to be Kletzki String Quartets 1 & 2 with commentary. My German is very poor. If I have provided incorrect information about the quartet number or key, please let me know. Also, if anyone knows the movements of these quartets, please post them.
Amphissa, thanks for your upload of these two Kletzki quartets. The correct details are as follows (partly taken from the announcement):
String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 1 (1923)
String Quartet No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 13 (1925)
His SQ #3 is in D Minor and his Op. 23, but the piece you uploaded is the second one, for which details are as above.
Thank you for the corrections, Holger. I've updated the info on the downloads page and will correct the info file included with the download tonight.
according to Worldcat.org, Kletzki's opus 23 3rd quartet was published by Breitkopf in 1931. (Several interesting-seeming works are listed not all of them listed above... a solo violin sonata op.26 (pub.1933), a sonata for violin and piano D major op12, orchestral-variations op20, sym. 1 in D minor op.17, symphony no.2 op.18 in G minor (pub.1927), piano and vocal/choral music ... ... ah. The violin concerto listed (G major, op.19) has even been, as one mentions, uploaded... my HD is becoming full again so I've been falling behind :D ... looking forward to hearing based on what I've already heard by him. Thanks!
Quote from: mikehopf on Sunday 26 February 2012, 09:26
http://www.mediafire.com/?1wv3erfirri3m (http://www.mediafire.com/?1wv3erfirri3m)
K. SZYMANOWSKI: Lottery for Husbands - Operetta (1907)Artists announced ... details from Polish Radio ( Dwojka)
From Polish Radio broadcast
Thanks to mikehopf :)
Here are more informations about this recording:
Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)
Loteria na mężów czyli Narzeczony nr 69(German: Die Männerlotterie oder der Bräutigam Nr. 69)
(English: Lottery for Husbands or Fiance No. 69)Operette in drei Akten / Operetta in three acts (1907 - 1909)
Libretto: Julian Krzewiński-Maszyński
Wieslaw Ochman
Marcin Bronikowski
Rafal Bartminski
Ewa Biegas
Urszula Kryger
Adam Kruszewski
Piotr Kusiewicz
Krzysztof Szmyt
Karol Lizak
Łukasz Smołka
Jarosław Kitala
Michał Wajda-Chłopicki
Anna Lubańska
Ewelina Szybilska
Anna Leśniewska
Anna Borucka-Kuflyuk
Agata Schmidt
Aleksandra Poniszowska
Janusz Styszko
Łukasz Nowak
Bogusław Kowalski
Zespół Śpiewaków Miasta Katowice Camerata Silesia
Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia
Michał Klauza
I tried to download the following works :
Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879 - 1953)
Polish Rhapsody op. 25 (1913)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski
Eugeniusz Morawski (1876 - 1948)
Nevermore – Symphonic Poem (~1911)
Don Quichote – Symphonic Poem (~1909)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszyński (1,2)
Feliks Nowowiejski (1877 - 1946)
"Polish Courtship" - Ouverture op. 6 (1903)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszyński
but the link is not valid anymore, would it be possible to fix it ?
Thanks,
I downloaded all of these works and am more than happy to re-upload them for you :)
Just give me until later tonight (UK time) to get this organised.
Many thanks Dundonnel, appreciated.
I have now (re) uploaded all of these pieces and they should be available soon :)
Hello Mark Thomas,
thank you for the Korogulski piano concerto!
I knew it was played here in Warsaw last yaer in the frame of the Festival entitled Chopin and his Europe but I missed then the radio transmission.
Till today there was only (I think so) one radio archive recording of the piece with Raegina Smendzianka and Polish Radio Orchestra of Krakow under Jerzt Gert - registered in 60s (??). The same performers reagistered at the same time (??) Krogulski's Variations for piano and orchestra - also nice and attractive piece. If there is an interest in listening to it I can upload it.
thanks to JP for corrected upload.
Marek
Hi Mark, I'd very much like to hear more Krugulski, so if you can upload the Variations for Piano & Orchestra then that would be great. Cheers.
As to Krogulski so the situation with recordings of his music is very very poor.
Except the radio recordings of the Pf cto and variations I cannot remember any other pieces - but I do not pretend to be an expert having definite information on him as I am for years mainly a fan of piano concertos so it is quite possible I missed other pieces by him done for radio archives.
I do have his Sonata for Piano and String Quartet presented here in Warsaw in 2008 during the 6th Festival of Polish Chamber Music. Piece very interesting however the live recording made by myself on cassette during the concert is of not very good quality.
During the mentioned ferstival there were presented also two other works by Krogulski: Octet (2nd edition of the Festival) and Piano Quartet op. 2 (4th edition). Unfortunately I do not have their registrations - concerts were not broadcast by Polish Radio.
Variations for Piano and Orchestra by Krogulski are available in the Downloads Section
Is it possible to get a listen to his Sonata for piano and string quartet? No matter the sound quality...... :D :D
Jerry
Marek, huge thanks for the Krogulski Variations.
OK, I upload also Sonata by Krogulski.
By the way - perhaps some of you can find solution for that.
For two weeks I was on holidays and did not enter the unsung and also did not enter the mediafire. Two days ago it appeared that all files uploaded by me during recent monts/wqeeks dissapeared from mediafire (my files section) so all links given earlier are no longer available.
Do you know useful and good solution for that problem?
Krogulski's Sonata already uploaded, details as below (here is my own cover of the CDR with all pieces performed during that evening)
KAROL LIPIŃSKI (1790-1861)
1. Variations on own Theme in g-minor op. 5
for Violin and Strings 14:56
2. Rondo alla polacca op. 13 for Violin and Strings 14:51
3. Siciliana op. 2 for Violin and Strings 4:22
Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, violin
Andrzej Gębski, violin / Wojciech Proniewicz, violin
Grzegorz Chmielewski, viola / Andrzej Wróbel, cello
Radosław Nur, double bass
JÓZEF DESZCZYŃSKI (1781-1844)
Piano Quartet in a-minor (1827)
4. Allegro moderato 7:12 5. Adagio 3:35
6. Polonaise 4:08 7. Rondo 6:28
Edward Wolanin, piano
Andrzej Gębski, violin / Grzegorz Chmielewski, viola
Andrzej Wróbel, cello
JÓZEF KROGULSKI (1815-1842)
Sonata in E flat-major for Piano and String Quartet (1831)
8. Allegro 6:27 9. Adagio. Allegro 7:57
Edward Wolanin, fortepian
Andrzej Gębski, violin / Wojciech Proniewicz, violin
Grzegorz Chmielewski, viola / Andrzej Wróbel, cello
performed during the 6th Festival of the Polish Chamber Music, 13.12.2008
here is renewed link to the Piano sonata by Serocki - as requested by one of participants
http://www.mediafire.com/?w9arh64t48aaf9n
Thanks again, Marek, for the Krogulski Sonata. Great stuff.
Yes, indeed, thanx Marek for the Sonata. Wonder what the difference is between a sonata for piano and string quartet and a piano quintet? An enjoyable piece albeit short....
Jerry
Also a big thank you to Semi-Serio for the Brzowski work for piano and strings. Shades of his buddy Freddy C. I love this short piece.
Jerry
Yes, another big thank you for the Krogulski works, Marek
I would love to hear JÓZEF DESZCZYŃSKI (1781-1844)
Piano Quartet in a-minor (1827)
Do you have ( or want) any rare Kurpinski?
Markniew,I can't access any of your generous Zelenski offerings. Can you, or anyone, advise me of what I do not know, or can you do anything to change them to an accessible form? I esteem this composer, and have become fond of him. I wonder what I'm missing! Thank You.
I couldn't get them to download with AOLbut they came down just fine with Firefox,if that's any help.
Jerry
No idea what is the reason. You mean the recent uploads, don't you? I have jus tried and no problems were reported.
as regards my previous uploads (befote 10th of March) they have disappeared so I have to re-uplod them if there is an interest
Hello mikehopf,
what rare Kurpinski you mean? Of course i am inetersted in lesser-well known Polish music.
Soon I will upload Deszczyński's pf quartet.
Markniew, What I mean is this: Most download links are underlined/ highlighted. When I move the cursor over them, they change color, I click on them, and the rest is easy. The links to downloads you've given us are in bright blue, and do not operate like the links I just described. This is a case of me simply not having the technical knowledge to do this with. I just do not know how to complete a download with these links. Would someone please tell me what I should do?As I said, I haven't accessed any of your Zelenski offerings, and I'm so eager to! I know there will be others, too, in the future.Will you offer a tutorial on how to transact this distinct type of link? Thank You again.
No, they're not clickable links. The poster has to make them so, otherwise they're just ordinary text. To use such a link, just highlight it with your mouse and press Ctrl+C if you have a PC. That copies the link into your clipboard. Then put the cursor in your browser's address bar window, press Ctrl+V and you've pasted the link into the address bar. Press Enter and the browser should start the download.
Marek: here's (http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,241.msg2655.html#msg2655) a tutorial on making links clickable (but it's up to you).
All that had happened was that Marek hadn't 'hyperlinked' the url. I have now modified them so that a simple click will take you to the downloads. In future, if the link doesn't work, just copy and paste it into to your web address bar window and press enter.
yes, in fact I used to give only adresses that are not clickable. In normal text editors the link automatically changes into hyperlink after pressing space key. That, I think so, does not work in messages in UC. OK I will be changing links into hyperlinks before pasting them in the messages
Sirs, Thank you for being so kind and helpful!The world of Unsung Composers is an sanctuary musically and personally. You are truly gentlemen.
A piece by the contemporary of Żeleński is available in the Downloads/Polish Music
ALEKSANDER ZARZYCKI (1834-1895)
Polish Suite for Orchestra op. 37
Recording of the Polish Radio but here taken off BBC 3!
Short info about hima can be found in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Zarzycki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Zarzycki)
Relativeley popular among violinists are his Romanca op. 16 and Mazurka op.26 (both for violin and piano).
His romantic and lovely piano concerto in radio archive recording with Józef Śmidowicz was issued in 90s by the Polish label Selene.
In the Downloads/Polish Music you can find Early Romantic Piano Quartet in a-minor by JÓZEF DESZCZYŃSKI (1781-1844).
It was presented (for the first time in modern times) during the 6th Festival of the Polish Chamber Music, 13.12.2008 (along with Krogulski - uploaded few weeks ago and with 3 works by Lipiński).
One year earlier also Deszczyński's Piano concerto was played - interesting work.
I'm having a problem getting mediafire to download this. Darn. Anyone else? Tried Firefox, IE and AOL without success.
Jerry
Me too, Jerry. Other files from Mediafire work - this particular one doesn't.
I try to re-upload it but in fact still have a problem. Will keep trying
It seems that the new link to the Deszczyński works correctly
Yes, thanks, Marek. And thank you for uploading it in the first place......
Jerry
Something for fans of more modern music (including Frank) available in the Downloads/Polish Music
ROMAN PALESTER (1907-1989)
Symphony no. 5 (1977-81)
Side A of the LP
Tessante con forza
Stesso tempo
Molto lento, misterioso
Side B
Vivace
Molto lento
Polish Radio National SO - Katowice
cond. Jan Krenz
some info on Palester can be found on PWM website:
http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=23&view=czlowiek&litera=18&Itemid=5&lang=en (http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=23&view=czlowiek&litera=18&Itemid=5&lang=en)
Performance done during the Warsaw Autumn Festival of Modern Music of 1988
source: LP of 1988 and because of that the sound quality is not very high but I do not have other version.
Thank you very much for the Deszczynski chamber music... just my cuppa-tea!
May I now request the Deszczynski Piano Concerto, please, Marek?
Comment from EarlyRomantic:
Guys, I, again, can't access the adjusted Zelenski offerings. Additionally, the Deszczynski is off limits to me as well. Others of you seem to be getting them after initial trouble. They state that the files are "invalid and corrupt". Does any one have helpful advice for me? Thanks in advance if so.
Something odd must be going on with MediaFire. It's just after 7 AM Monday here in Minnesota and I just tried, successfully, to re-download the Deszczynski. It took two tries but not unusual for AOL.....
Jerry
Must listen to the performance of Kisielewski's Symphony no. 2 uploaded today.
In my off radio recording performers are: Polish National Radio SO under Tadeusz Wojciechowski
Quote from: Bill Hayden on Friday 20 April 2012, 22:49
Many thanks for Kisielewski's Second.Could you upload symphony in a square please?
;)
I will upload it on Sunday.
Quote from: Bill Hayden on Friday 20 April 2012, 22:49
Many thanks for Kisielewski's Second.Could you upload symphony in a square please?
;)
Bill, It has been uploaded.
Frank
Thank you A.S. for the symphony by Szałowski. Symphony dates from 1939.
Recording was done for Polsih radio in 1950.
In one of my books I have found that Symphony was lost. It seems to be not true.
Few words on Szałowski can be found in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Szalowski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Szalowski)
Frank,
I do have only two performances of the Symphony in a Square by Kisielewski. I believe there are also others for radio archives. The piece was written in 1978.
The total time of the performance you have uploaded (17:33) indicates that it is most likely played by Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmony, conductor is Jerzy Swoboda.
Movements are: 1. Allegro energico, 2. Allegretto, 3. Andante cantabile, 4. Allegro molto energico.
It was issued on LP by Polskie Nagrania in 1990 with Polish National Radio SO under Renard Czajkowski. Total tim eof that recording was 20:00 (side B of the LP). Other pieces on side A were: Intermezzo for Clarinet and Piano, Serenada for Piano and 7 Songs to texts by. K. I. Gałczyński
Quote from: markniew on Sunday 22 April 2012, 17:06
Frank,
I do have only two performances of the Symphony in a Square by Kisielewski. I believe there are also others for radio archives. The piece was written in 1978.
The total time of the performance you have uploaded (17:33) indicates that it is most likely played by Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmony, conductor is Jerzy Swoboda.
Movements are: 1. Allegro energico, 2. Allegretto, 3. Andante cantabile, 4. Allegro molto energico.
It was issued on LP by Polskie Nagrania in 1990 with Polish National Radio SO under Renard Czajkowski. Total tim eof that recording was 20:00 (side B of the LP). Other pieces on side A were: Intermezzo for Clarinet and Piano, Serenada for Piano and 7 Songs to texts by. K. I. Gałczyński
Thanks again for your help, Marek. If there are some Polish works you would like for me to upload, please let me know.
Is there any reason for that rather unusual moniker?
Link to wikipedia and extremely brief info on Szalowski is available on previous sie of this thread.
more info on his works are available here (only in Polish however):
http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=272&view=czlowiek&litera=21&Itemid=5&lang=pl (http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=272&view=czlowiek&litera=21&Itemid=5&lang=pl)
Does anybody have a recording of Alexandre Tansman's oratorio Isaiah?
I have it - off radio. Can upload however after few days when I am back home
Fantazja góralska (Mountaineers Fantasy) by Noskowski
The piece was played by Polish Radio Orchestra under Łukasz Borowicz on 29 Jan. 2012 (Live broadcast from Polish Radio Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio).
It was - as far as I remember - premiere of the orchestral version (at least in modern years).
must check whether I have recorded the comments.
on the website (unfortunately in Polish) you can find the following:
Fantazja góralska (Eine gebirges-Phantasie über 2 Volksmelodien aus Zakopane im Tatra-Gebirge) for piano for 4 hands (1885)
http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=919&view=czlowiek&litera=16&Itemid=5&lang=pl
Perhaps the piano version will be included by Acte Prealable in 2nd CD with piano music by Noskowski
Fantazja Goralska (Eine Gebirges-Phantasie über 2 Volksmelodien aus Zakopane im Tatra-Gebirge) was composed by Z. Noskowski as a score featuring the piano 4 hands. The piece was performed and printed in 1888, and some times later the composer himself orchestrated his music. The Phantasy was never performed however in this version, until 29.01.2012, when the Polish Radio Symphonic Orchestra gave its first public performance.
Noskowski was a prominent person in polish music of his times, the list of his major compositions (including The Phantasy) can be found for example here: http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=919&view=czlowiek&litera=16&Itemid=5&lang=pl (http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=919&view=czlowiek&litera=16&Itemid=5&lang=pl)
Here are the proper notes for the Noskowski Choral Fantasy.
Zygmunt Noskowski
Fantazja Góralska 9'
Polish National Radio Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz, conductor
Lutyoslawski Concert Studio, Warsaw
29 January 2012
Quote from: markniew on Saturday 12 May 2012, 13:12
WŁADYSŁAW ŻELEŃSKI
"Żyj pieśni" (Long live the Song) - Cantata for Choir and Orchestra (1901)
Orchestra and Choir of the National Philharmonic of Warsaw
cond. Antoni Wit
off radio, live broadcast from the Warsaw Philharmonic, 05.11.2011 of the concert celebrating its 110th anniversary
The Cantata is actually a piece for Cello and Orchestra, could you clarify please ?
that seems to be my mistake. The piece for cello and orchestra is Żeleński's Romance op. 40 that I did not intend to upload as I am not sure the source and performers- it was found in Internet. According to my knowledge the piece has not been commercially published.
Cantata has been correctly uploaded.
Quote from: Bill Hayden on Sunday 13 May 2012, 01:19
Wechowicz Oratorio Romantic is from 1930 0r 1950?
8)
Oratorio for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra to text by Mickiewicz is of 1930.
Koncert staromiejski (Old Town Concerto) is of 1954.
Old Town is a neme of historical part of Warsaw
Juliusz Zarębski (1854-1885) Polish pianist and composer. He composed excusively for piano. He championed and composed for the two-keyboards piano invented by Mangeot.
His most reverred composition is however his Piano Quintet in G minor op. 34 (1885) considered as the best Polish chamber piece after Chopin.
His piano concerto also in G minor was not completed and the scor is most likely stored somewhere in Russia (according to the cover notes of an old LP). Notes on the CD by Selene with his piano pieces say that only scetches of the concerto survived.
some basic information can be found in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Zar%C4%99bski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Zar%C4%99bski)
Only a part of his music was recorded and issued on LPs and CDs. Also archive recordings for Polish Radio do not include the complete of his compositions.
I start with rather surprising thing: orchestral arrangement of 5 Polish Dances by Zarębski. Orchestral version was done by Jan maklakiewicz - well known to the members of our forum.
Some other pieces will follow
And the gem of Zarębski, his Piano Quintet in G minor op. 34 of 1885.
Quintet is dedicated to Liszt with whom Zarębski studied during 1874/5.
In recent years the piece appears in concert halls played by foreign pianists. Last year Martha Argerich played it at the Lugano Festival. Then she repeated it in Warsaw. Her performance I will upload also.
Here we have recording with Jonathan Plowright who persented the piece in 2008 during the 4th Festival of Polish Music.
Myself I consider the old LP recording by Polskie Nagrania (Muza) of 60s as the best performance. It was played by Władysław Szpilman, Bronisław Gimpel, Tadeusz Wroński, Stefan Kamasa and Aleksander Ciechański. That was for decades the only commercial recording of the piece (cannot say available - because the edition was soon out of print and only after long time issued again in small number) .
Quintet is greatly structured, very melodious with dramatic and also melancholic fragments. Piano part is perfect.
Another orchestral arrangement. Originally it was composed for 4 hands (published Mainz 1882).
JULIUSZ ZARĘBSKI (1854-1885)
Polonaise triomphale in A major op. 11 (1882)
here arranged and orchestrated by Ryszard Daniel Golianek.
As the commenary says it was the world premiere of the newly discovered piece (in orchestral version?), done on 09.11.2006 during the 2nd Festival of Polish Music
Regarding the Zarebski Piano Quintet download, JimL writes:
I don't know if you've listened to the files downloaded, but I may have to delete this from my iTunes. There are several drops and interruptions in the second movement and, I think the finale. I don't know if my computer was having issues while I was downloading or if they were in the original files. Could you check and let me know? Because it is a rip-roarer of a piece, to be sure! If it was issues with my computer, I'll delete it and reload it, but if it's your files you may need to reload them.
I will check it. I face from time to time problems when recording from the Polish Radio. The streaming is not always good. It happens that distortions appear and the quality might is not excellent.
I hope that is not the case. :(
Elroel has uploded the piece by Michał Spisak noting that he is not well known outside Poland.
Yes, in fact he is not. Even here in Poland he is not very popular despite his music is really interesting and enjoying. Not many pieces were released on LPs or CDs. I think it is worth to start new thread and present a number of his pieces taken off radio.
According to Paciorkiewicz.pl (http://www.paciorkiewicz.pl/category/chamber-music/) belatedly the movements of Paciorkiewicz's 1988 viola sonata (posted awhile ago by Marek) are Allegro - Sostenuto - Vivo. (This work was not on the Acte Préalable CD of works for Violin and Viola by Paciorkiewicz released a few years back, would seem :) ) It was a request by his son, who performs the work and has commercially recorded works by some rather well-known modern Polish composers, I notice (Artur's name comes up more often than his father's in a Google search, I think. Yay violists, I say as someone who used to play- er, accidentally mangle- the instrument.)
The same site (different page) (http://www.paciorkiewicz.pl/category/orchestral-works/) has information on his earlier Concerto alla barocco (1978) (Moderato - Andante cantabile - Con moto), commissioned by the same Julit(t?)a Sleńdzińska who performs in the broadcast.
Quote from: markniew on Friday 18 May 2012, 15:02
Elroel has uploded the piece by Michał Spisak noting that he is not well known outside Poland.
Yes, in fact he is not. Even here in Poland he is not very popular despite his music is really interesting and enjoying. Not many pieces were released on LPs or CDs. I think it is worth to start new thread and present a number of his pieces taken off radio.
Sadly, in many countries, composers who were household names in the 1950s or 1960s are now scarcely performed and recorded. Spisak was regularly mentioned alongside Grażyna Bacewicz in music history books as one of the main "Neo-Classical" composers in Poland after WWII. The second of his three Symphonies concertantes was often praised. Ironically, G. Bacewicz resented being called a Neo-Classical composer. Spisak definitely was so, at least in a 1930's- or 1940's- Stravinsky sort of way. It is interesting to note that while many composers in Central and Eastern Europe either fell silent, went in exile or wrote some of their weaker scores during the post-Jdanov era (1949-1956), most of the ones who managed to maintain their compositional quality were those whose natural musical temper was either classical or deeply optimistic / energetic. Spisak is such a case, as were Arnič, Bjelinski, Hanuš or Šulek.
Speaking of Bacewicz, thanks to those who have uploaded the cello concertos and piano concerto broadcasts - I know I've admired most of her music I've heard (except maybe for a brief "dip" in her output's quality, in my honest opinion, and not all of it, just some works) around the time of the 2-piano concerto, and even then, back up again with the last quartets and concertos which I think if anything are maybe her best works, integrating the best of all that preceded ? ... ).
Oooh! Thank you for mentioning also Paciorkiewicz. He is the next case of the composers not pampered (perhaps I use the wrong word, sorry) by Polish phonography. Most of his music I have got off Polish Radio. I do have his Concerto alla barocco. In fact I have had relatively many of his compositions - both pf ctos, ctos for violin, 2 violins, viola, harp, oboe and a number of chamber music.
He deserves to have his thread here but I am afraid to be the main source of uploads. Perhaps you can assist me, it's hard job to transfer the waves into mp3s and then uplod it :)
Rather lighter music - suite from the ballet "Złota kaczka" (Golden duck) based on a local legend. Złota kaczka is a legendary creature popular in Warsaw's urban legends.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C5%82ota_kaczka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C5%82ota_kaczka)
JAN MAKLAKIEWICZ (1899-1955)
"Złota kaczka" (Golden Duck) – Suite from the Ballet (1950)
1. Introduction to Act 1
2. Mazurek
3. Oberek
4. Mother's Dance
5. Little Frog
6. Folk Dance – Polka
7. Shoemaker Dance
Quote from: markniew on Friday 18 May 2012, 19:24
Oooh! Thank you for mentioning also Paciorkiewicz. He is the next case of the composers not pampered (perhaps I use the wrong word, sorry) by Polish phonography. Most of his music I have got off Polish Radio. I do have his Concerto alla barocco. In fact I have had relatively many of his compositions - both pf ctos, ctos for violin, 2 violins, viola, harp, oboe and a number of chamber music.
He deserves to have his thread here but I am afraid to be the main source of uploads. Perhaps you can assist me, it's hard job to transfer the waves into mp3s and then uplod it :)
It's not that hard if you have iTunes, Marek. If you transfer a WAV file into iTunes to play it, it automatically converts it to an MP3. If you copy that you have an MP3 ready for upload!
well, depending on your settings...
In the Dowloads there is more by Maklakiewicz - for those who like songs with orchestra.
I am not a fan of such a music but I present it.
JAN MAKLAKIEWICZ (1899-1954)
Japanese Songs op. 25 (1930)
In track 2 you can find titles of the songs (four) however in Polish - if there is an interest I can try to translate them.
or someone can find it somewhere in the Internet
Interesting that some Polish composers did write songs to texts taken from the Japanese poetry.
Here we have:
ALEKSANDER TANSMAN (1897-1986)
8 Japanese Songs for Soprano and Orchestra (1918)
(texts in paraphrase by Remigiusz Kwiatkowski)
After the biography of the composer (by Janusz Cegiełła) I quote the original title:
Huit melodies japanaises Kai-Kai, dedicated "a Madame Maria Freund" (soprano whe premiered both versions: with orchestra on 02.02.1922 and with piano (with Tansman himself) on 19.11.1922.
Titles:
1. Tejakakja: Allegro molto
2. Dame Ise: Andante espressivo
3. Samma sammi: Andante cantabile
4. Oczikoczi-no-micune: Andante espressivo
5. Saruwaru-taju: Adagio
6. Fudziwara-no-tesziuki-ason: Moderato
7. Bunja-no-asajasu: Adagio
8. Banja rjosen: Lento
according to the book this recording was made in 1972
Composer rather unknown and not played even in Poland, however his outup was quite impressive.
I can remember that in some books it was mentioned that his Piano concerto (no. 1 ???) was highly valued by Max Reger.
During many years of gathering Polish music I heard only this sonata and some songs, no symphonic works or concertos. Perhaps I missed something what is be possible but in any case not many of his compositions were ever recorded .
some information on him can be found on PWM website:
=364544&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=118606&strona=2&change_lang=1&change_skin=103374]http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Friemann_Witold&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364544&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=118606&strona=2&change_lang=1&change_skin=103374 (http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Friemann_Witold&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd%5B6)
WITOLD FRIEMANN (1889-1977)
Sonata for Violin and Piano op. 15
1. Allegro
2. Presto
3. Andante
4. Finale. Presto ala mazurka
Krzysztof Jakowicz, Violin
Andrzej Stefański, Piano
Quote from: Bill Hayden on Tuesday 22 May 2012, 01:09
Has anyone Paciorkiewicz's First symphony? Reading his webpage it seems had been recorded.
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I never heard his 1st symphony on radio. Interesting is that his symphony no. 2 was not recorded in Poland but was issued in early 60s by the Soviet Melodiya taken live from the concert done in Moscow during the Days of Polish Music - if I remember correctly. It was included in the 2LP set with, among others, Witold Rudziński's Concertante Music for piano and Orchestra (not available in other recordings).
Thanks to fr8nks for uploading 2 Violins Concerto by Paciorkiewicz. In next days I will upload some other pieces by him.
So far as Friemann is concerned (misspelling his name as Friedmann gives a very few more hits but nothing as useful as I'd hoped ;) ) there is one 78-rpm recording coupling a work of his - Cudne oczy I think, if I'm reading correctly- with a Chopin etude (op.10/3) - and that is all Worldcat turns up, anyhow, by way of released recordings (that I know of etc.)
MusicSack (http://musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100021750) spells his name Withold Friemann and has August 20 1889 or 1899 in Konin near Kalisz, died 1977. (With Witold as an alternate- Withold may be a typo- and this among MS' sources:
Mitscha, Adam. "Witold Friemann. Zycie i tworczosc.
(Leben und Werk 1889-1977)
Katowice: Akademia Muzyczna 1980. 190 S.
Mit Abb. u. Werkeverz.
(Series: Zeszyty Naukowe; 17)" as a source- a 190-page book on the composer? Hrm. If that can be found, it would hopefully add substantially to what one -does- know about Friemann.)
I've uploaded to mediafire the Concerto Symphonique for piano and orchestra by Joseph Rosenstock (1895-1985). His opus 4 of ???
Rosenstock was born in Poland, eventually wound up conducting in Nazi Germany. Because he was Jewish, he luckily left before his number came up. He moved to Japan (!) and conducted until the war started and emigrated to the United States. He probably made his biggest splash as one of the conducting staff at the Met starting in 1961 where he stayed for I think the end of his career.
Rosenstock has never, to my knowledge, been know as a composer. He is not listed in either the 50s Grove or the 1980 New Grove. The Wikipedia article does not make any mention of compositions at all. The Concerto was composed in 1919-20 and premiered in 1920 with Rosentock himself at the piano. It's a late Romantic piece, fairly tuneful and quite interesting.
If you'll indulge an old man, I remember Rosenstock when he was with the Met and they were doing their annual tour on the road - actually almost exactly this time of year in Minneapolis. He always seem like kind of a grumpy old man. I saw him conduct several operas in the 1960s but one incident I remember well. And, no, I don't remember what opera it was. Rosenstock appeared inthe pit, took his bow, raised his baton and they weren't more than two or three measures into the overture, when some poor soul in the middle section at Northrup Auditoreum suffered a severe coughing spell. Rosenstock immediately stopped the orchestra, turned and glared in the general direction of the embarassed offender, waiting until the spasm subsided and then very clearly said "Are you quite through??" At which point he turned back to the band and resumed the performance.
Hope you like his concerto.
Jerry
In the Downloads Section/Polish Music a number of solo piano works can be found:
JULIUSZ ZARĘBSKI (1854-1885)
1. Tarantella op. 25
2. Novelette-caprice op. 19
3. Serenade Burlesque op. 20
From 'Les Etrennes' op. 27
4. Waltz in B major
5. Melody
6. Waltz in A major
7. Berceuse op. 22
8. Polonaise in F sharp major op. 6
From 'Les Roses et les Epines' op. 13
9. Andante con moto
10. Allegro molto
11. Allegretto
Ryszard Bakst, piano
LP by Polskie Nagrania/Muza XL 0255 (ca. of 1965) MONO. Sound volume is rather low - perhaps someone is able to improve that.
Ryszard Bakst (1926-1999) started his lessons at the age of six in Warsaw with Józef Turczyński. During WW2 he found himself in Soviet Union (Sverdlovsk) and then studied in Kijev and in Moscow under Igumnov and also with Neuhaus. In 1947 he returned to Poland and studied with Drzewiecki. He won 6th prize at the Piano Chopin Competition in 1949. In 1968 he was forced to resign from teaching in the Warsaw Conservatory and moved to England where - starting from 1969 - he was a professor at the Royal Manchester College of Music.
Markniew!
Thanks so much for the Zarębski! I have this LP -- bought as a teenager -- but I left in the UK. Great playing -- Bakst was a colleague of my teacher. I'm surprised that I've never come across a CD re-release in Poland ...
Thanks also for continued bits of Maklakiewicz ... especially the Japanese Songs. Do you have the Concertino for piano, soprano and chmbr orch? That would be great to hear. I walked past the Academy in Katowice a couple of days ago and thought of him. Might try to find his grave. Pity he didn't write tons of piano music.
Hi Isokani,
Yes, I do have Concertino for pf with soprano by Maklakiewicz. Must upload it. Perhaps there are some more radio archive recordings of his works but frankly speaking Polish Radio is not eager to present such forgotten music to listeners! They keep them hidden and I am afraid that many listeners will not live long enough to have a chance of listening ;)
Thank you Jery (jerfilm) for the Rosenstock concerto! His name is not mentioned in books of Polish music. Must listen to it carefully to trace perhaps Polish motives.
Do you know on his other compositions? Is the concerto his only composition? It is hardly to believe so.
Marek
You are very welcome, Marek. According to my source, the piano concerto is his opus 4 so presumably there are at least 3 other compositions. ::) He doesn't appear in Groves, even as a noted conductor and if he's not in Polish music literature, it may be hard to find information about him. He became an American citizen in 1949. Wikikpedia is no help nor is the Oxford Dictionary- no mention of composing. Google search produces nothing. Anyone else??
Jerry
Today I have found an interesting article on the situation in Polish music at the end of 40s /beginning of 50s, including preparations for the 1st Festival of Polish Music where the state authorities requested the composers to write /present new music for this occasion (meeting precisely indicated expectations). Many pieces declared to be composed are mentioned. Some were materialized while others did not. A part of composers names are not known today. Some of the mentioned and composed music is not known (at least to me, and not issued). Note that a number of music composed for the purposes of the festival have been uploaded in this forum. Interesting is a case study on Panufnik and his Symphony on Peace (also uploaded before).
I am quite sure that the situation in Poland was to some extent typical for the countries subordinated to Soviet Union. Because of that I duplicate this post in two threads.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/5.1.02/thomasfile.html (http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/5.1.02/thomasfile.html)
Rosenstock's piano sonata, opus 3 was printed by Universal Edition in 1919 and reprinted by Recital Publications in 2004. His opus 5, Ouverture zu einem heiteren Spiel was published by Universal Edition in 1921. The Free Library of Philadelphia has the manuscript score and parts of the piano concerto (listing its orchestration - in their shorthand, so-pn, 3-fl (1-pc, I), 2-ob, 1-eh, 2-cl, 1-bcl, 2-bn, 1-cbn, 4-hn, 3-tpt, 3-trb, 1-tb, tmp, prc, cel, hp, str.) and published score and (published?) parts of the Overture op.5 , too. (I find for compositions Worldcat, not Google, is generally my first stop :) and so it proved here...)
Thank you Jerry, I listened Rosenstock's concerto today.
In Japan , the name of Rosenstock is famous as he established the foundation of NHK symphony orchestra.
But I didn't know he was composer. It's a fine romantic and symphonic music , in my view. Many thanks! :D
Another performance of the Piano Quintet.
I know that in the earlier upload with Jonathan Plowright there are some defects resulting from poor streaming or my software to catch radio signal.
Here you have the copy of an old LP by Polskie Nagrania/Muza XL 0178 (ca. of 1963) MONO
never reissued on CD.
Sound level is not excellent, I do not have appropriate software - still count on other with more expertise in improving old recodings
JULIUSZ ZARĘBSKI (1854-1885)
Piano Quintet in G minor op. 34 (1885)
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Scherzo. Presto
4. Finale. Presto
Władysław Szpilman, piano
Bronisław Gimpel, 1st violin
Tadeusz Wroński, 2nd violin
Stefan Kamasa, viola,
Aleksander Ciechański, cello
When I tried to extract the zipped files I was notified that the movements were password protected. Do you have a password you could PM me, or maybe check to see if you could re-upload the Zarebski Piano Quintet without the need for a password?
I have just checked it. No prompting for password appeared - it unzipped (with RAR) without problems.
Sorry, Alan. You may transport the whole load of these posts to the appropriate section. In any event, the files extracted with 7zip uneventfully.
Quote from: markniew on Sunday 15 April 2012, 21:51
Something for fans of more modern music (including Frank) available in the Downloads/Polish Music
ROMAN PALESTER (1907-1989)
Symphony no. 5 (1977-81)
Side A of the LP
Tessante con forza
Stesso tempo
Molto lento, misterioso
Side B
Vivace
Molto lento
Polish Radio National SO - Katowice
cond. Jan Krenz
some info on Palester can be found on PWM website:
http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=23&view=czlowiek&litera=18&Itemid=5&lang=en (http://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&id=23&view=czlowiek&litera=18&Itemid=5&lang=en)
Performance done during the Warsaw Autumn Festival of Modern Music of 1988
source: LP of 1988 and because of that the sound quality is not very high but I do not have other version.
Roman Palester is one of the finest of the truly unsung composers, his music is well crafted and highly original. The one work posted here is not the best representative of his music, as his other music is more accessable. According to Wikipedia "by the late 1940s, he was widely regarded as one of Poland's greatest living composers,[3] alongside Grażyna Bacewicz and Andrzej Panufnik."
His music fell into obscurity for purely political reasons, again Wikipedia states"Palester worked for Radio Free Europe, as the head of its Polish culture department and as the presenter of a series entitled "Music Abolishes the Frontiers". Both the station's acutely anti-communist stance and his own refusal to adopt the principles of Socialist Realism lead to Palester being exiled from Poland, and the communist officials expunged both his name and scores from official publications and prohibited public performances of his work."
So all the more reason his music demands a fair hearing. Someone should record and post to Unsung from the site below:
Try his edgy Symphony for 2 String Orchestras, dour Nocturne or Adagio, or his very accessable early Ballet "Song for the Earth."
http://chomikuj.pl/tadeusz_baird/2.+Muzyka/POLSKA/Palester*2c+Roman+(1907-89)
Still hoping to find the three movement titles (the last is an announcer with the conductor and orchestra) for the Zelenski piano concerto. It's mentioned in a book on Ignaz Friedman as a concerto dedicated to him, though. Neat. It seems he performed it in May 1904 (possibly the premiere??).
Working on a (redundant but I do not have access to other materials at the moment...) IMSLP-ish worklist for Zelenski since it will help me get my head straight about what he published when, and since I am, apologies for one of my few talents eh ...- I have a small (not self-deprecating, but not wishing to over-estimate) talent in that direction. Then I will have better information on his late works, I think.
They're right here on the Forum, Eric, either on the Download or in the Zelenski thread on the Composers and Music Board. According to what I have in my iTunes, the movements are:
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Theme and variations: Andantino quasi allegretto
3. Finale - Rondo: Allegro non troppo ma con brio.
Listened to the Rosenstock concerto today, too. A fine piece. It seems to be in one extended movement. I'll have to give it another run-through tomorrow.
Ah, thank you. Still will go to work on that Mini Werkverzeichnis; I enjoy them. ( <----- Dork. ) For op60 does the date 1904 for composition (not publication, i think he was only up to op47 about then there-a-wards) seem right, or earlier, anyone know? :) All I see is that it seems to have been performed, -maybe- premiered in May of that year... (<---- redundant dork. Apologies)
Hrm, no,no, the suite op.47 may be from around 1894, the 1904 thing is some sort of new edition maybe... interesting. ... wait. ...
Zdzisław Jachimecki in his small book on Żeleński (1of 1959) writes that Piano Concerto op. 60 was composed in 1903 and published by Idzikowski in Kiev and accepted by Litollf in Brunswick. He does not give unfortunately information on its premiere.
Jachimecki mentiones PhD dissertation by Aleksander Frączkiewicz "Polish Piano concerto after Chopin", Kraków 1947, perhaps more details can be found there.
In the Downloads section there is a link to:
TADEUSZ PACIORKIEWICZ (1916-1998)
Suite from the Ballet "Legend of Warsaw" (1959)
some information can be found od the composer's website:
http://www.paciorkiewicz.pl/2012/01/ballet-legend-of-warsaw/ (http://www.paciorkiewicz.pl/2012/01/ballet-legend-of-warsaw/)
Polish Radio in its archives has got a number of Paciorkiewicz's composition - I will continue to upload some of them
Gorgeous surprise with Zarebsky's quintet played by Spielman and Gimpel! 8)
Thank you so much!
On Sunday at. 7:00 p.m. CET Polish Radio 2 will broadcast the concert with Symphony no. 1 op. 8 by Witold Maliszewski. It is - up to my knowledge - the first performance of the piece in modern times.
Ca. 10 years ago his Symphony no. 3 was presented here also after decades of its creation (I uploaded it some months ago).
Some of the members remember that Maliszewski was educated in Russia (also under Rimsky-Korsakov) and spent many years there. he returned to Poland in 20s of 20th centyry.
Will you be able to record it, Marek?
Yes, I plan to do it. Also some others do. I believe we will got it!
Excellent! Thanks!
In the Downloads/Polish Musics can be found:
STEFAN BOLESŁAW PORADOWSKI (1902-1967)
Symphony no. 8 op. 71 (1966)
Poradowski is rather forgotten composer only a small number of his pieces have been recorded for Polish Radio.
I have had his Doublebass Concerto, few songs and Prelude and Toccata for violin and piano (1962). Myself I do not know any LP/CD recording of his music.
some information on Poradowski can be found on the PWM website:
=364439&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=118448&strona=2]http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Poradowski_Stefan_Boles%B3aw&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364439&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=118448&strona=2 (http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Poradowski_Stefan_Boles%B3aw&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd%5B6)
and in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Boles%C5%82aw_Poradowski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Boles%C5%82aw_Poradowski)
note that here the title of the section "discography" is misleading - it should be rather: list of compositions
Marek, Many thanks for Poradowski. Not too modern, and interesting work to me :)
Also thanks for tell me about correct title of Małecki's work.
Jozef Wieniawski (1837-1912)
Piano Concerto in G minor (1858)
Is this the opus 20 concerto??
Jerry
Yes, this is the Opus 20 Piano Concerto of about 1858. I've added the movement titles.
Very many thanks to fr8nks for Maliszewski's 1st Symphony. Initial impressions are very favourable - more later...
You are welcome, Alan. The symphony was very well constructed and enjoyable from beginning to end.
Couldn't have put it better myself. A very rewarding listen. Many thanks.
Here there are some info on Maciej Zielinski - taken from the 2004 Warsaw Autumn Festival of Modern Music website:
Maciej Zieliński
born in 1971 in Warsaw, he studied composition with Marian Borkowski at the Music Academy in Warsaw, gaining a diploma with distinction in 1996. He was also a postgraduate student of Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music in London (diploma in 1999). He participated in the International Courses for Young Composers organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music (1993–97) and in the International Meetings of Young Composers in Apeldoorn, Holland (1995).
His works have been featured in major festivals including the 'Warsaw Autumn', the Lutosławski Forum in Warsaw, Musica Polonica Nova in Wrocław, the 'Gaude Mater' Festival of Sacred Music in Częstochowa, AudioArt, the 14th Synthesizer-Musik-Festival in Braunschweig, Musica del Novocento in Rome, the European Youth Music Festival Copenhagen '96, the Park Lane Festival in London, and the World Music Days in Romania. They have also been recorded for many European radio stations and on many labels (pwm, dux, zpr Records, Universal Music, Polskie Nagrania Edition, Acte Préalable). One of the recent cds, featuring String Quartet No. 1 (performed by the dafO Quartet on the pwm/dux label) won the 'Fryderyk' Award of the Polish Phono-graphic Academy in 2002.
In 2000 his work Lutosławski in memoriam for oboe and piano was selected by the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music for the examination programme in English schools until 2006. His honours also include Second Prize of the Critics' Panel at the 2nd Young Composers' Forum in Kraków (1994), Second Prize at the 6th Com-petition for Synthesized and Computer Music (Germany, 1995), Second Prize at the 1st 'Musica Sacra' Competition for Young Composers (1995), Third Prize at the 'Jihlava' International Com-posers' Competition (the Czech Republic, 1996), Third Prize at the National Composers' Competition in Gdańsk (1997), the Main Prize in the competition for a multimedia project organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music (1999), the Alan Bush Composition Prize (Britain, 1999), and the Josiah Parker Composition Prize (Bri-tain, 1999).
He held grants from the Minister of Culture and Art (1995) and the British Council (1998). In 1994–96 he served as deputy chairman of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers' Union. He was a moderator at the 20th International Course for Young Composers in Radzie-jowice in 2000 and served as its director in 2003. He was a member
of the National Jury of the iscm World Music Days (2002, 2004), and of the Tadeusz Baird and 'Musica Sacra' Composers' Competitions. In 2002 he was elected deputy president of the Polish Society for Contemporary Music. He is a member of the Polish Composers' Union (Board Member of its Warsaw Branch), the Polish Society for Contemporary Music and the zaiks Authors' and Composers' Association.
Incidental music for the theatre and film music constitute an important part of his artistic activity.
Selected works: Miniature for string quartet (1989), Concertino for clarinet and piano (1991), Variations for solo clarinet (1991), Miniatures for chamber orchestra (1992), Perchoir for mixed choir and percussion (1992–93), Capriccio for clarinet and piano (1993), Sonata for accordion (1993), Musica per archi a.d. 1993 (1993), String Quartet No. 1 (1994), Vox Humana for percussion and amplified cello (1994), Alone in a Crowd ... for alto saxophone and tape (1994), Domine, quis habitabit for unaccompanied mixed choir (1995), Capriccio for solo violin (1995), Clouds for tape (1995), Piano Concerto No. 1 (1995), Three Phrases for clarinet, trombone, cello and piano (1996), Tractus for unaccompanied mixed choir (1996), Shining for string orchestra (1996), a. for alto saxophone and piano (1996), Symphony No. 1 (1996), Abruzzo – Imaginary Landscape for chamber orchestra (1997), Capriccio for chamber orchestra (1998), Lutosławski in memoriam for oboe and piano (1999), Brass Quintet (1999), Oratio for solo organ (2000), Fallen Angel for percussion and tape (2003), Sololis for solo piano (2004).
In the Downloads there is a link to:
Apolinary Szeluto (1884-1966)
Cyrano de Bergerac – Symphonic Poem op. 27 (1933)
Polish Radio Orchestra of Kraków
cond. Antoni Wicherek
Szeluto is rather completely unknown and unplayed despite he was a member of the Young Poland in Music group (with Szymanowski, Różycki and Fitelberg) and was considered in the beginning of his career as the higly promising composer.
his short biogram can be found on the PWM website
=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=121366&strona=2]http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Szeluto_Apolinary&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=121366&strona=2 (http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Szeluto_Apolinary&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd%5B6)
in the booklet notes of the only one CD with his (chamber) music (by DUX) one can read:
" In Szeluto's CV the truth was mixed with the fiction: the titles of his compositions and the fact of their existence were actually true. Later, since the end of the 1940's, as a result of the composer's developing depressioh, his operas and symphonies contained only titles and several words or notes (e.g. his opera in five acts filled two pages). the performances and recordings of his Majestic Peace Symphony were rather invented by Szeluto. he even failed to provide its instrumentation. The songs with political undertones (Stalin's Oath on lenin's Grave etc.) listed by Szeluto, were probably never written. A fairly detailed catalogue of Szeluto's compositions, prepared by Tadeusz Szantruczek, does not mention such titles. [...] The most important and probably the most accurate comments [on his music] were those by Feruccio Busoni stating that Szeluto's works "were one of a kind" and by Fritz Kresiler writing that his compositions are completely different than anything else".
For music fans it is very difficult to form their own opinion on his music as there are almost no recordings of it (DUX Cd is an exception). I do have only few his solo piano pieces.
Nice listening
Thank you so much, Marek!
Some time ago I requested music by Szeluto - in vain. I am looking forward to listening to this substantial work! :D
Few days ago the symphony no. 1 op. 8 of 1902 by Maliszewski was its modern premiere.
In the Downloads I have uploaded his work of the same year (1902 - according to the commentary) Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major op. 1.
It is rather more traditional and conventional compostion than the symphony. But as a piecen ot commonly known and rather rarely played it is worth listening.
Marek, thank you very much for the new Maliszewski Sonata! :D
When Frank posted the 1st Symphony he gave 1907 as the date. This is certainly the date of publication (Belaieff) according to several online sources. I couldn't find any reference about when Maliszewski actually wrote his Opus 8. Can you confirm that it was 1902?
Published but not composed (well, perhaps revised) as late as 1907, since it was performed, according to Taruskin, on 21 March 1904 in a St. Petersburg concert along with the premiere of Lyadov's Baba-Yaga.
Did the Maliszewski symphony and Wieniawski piano concerto come from a June 17 concert (with Zielinski's Element, world premiere)? I see there's a webpage ("World Concert Hall") that offered a live stream of them when they were going on... performers seem to be Borowicz, Biliska, etc.
Quote from: eschiss1 on Friday 22 June 2012, 22:34
Did the Maliszewski symphony and Wieniawski piano concerto come from a June 17 concert (with Zielinski's Element, world premiere)? I see there's a webpage ("World Concert Hall") that offered a live stream of them when they were going on... performers seem to be Borowicz, Biliska, etc.
Quote from markniew on June 16th, 2012:
"On Sunday at. 7:00 p.m. CET Polish Radio 2 will broadcast the concert with Symphony no. 1 op. 8 by Witold Maliszewski. It is - up to my knowledge - the first performance of the piece in modern times."
Also the source for all three works is given as being taken from this concert.
Yes, the Zieliński, Wieniawski and Maliszewski were played at the same evening closing the concert season 2011/12 of the Polska Orkiestra Radiowa (Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw).
as to the Maliszewski's symphony PWM gives the date 1902 as the date of composiong
=364447&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=118559&strona=3&change_lang=1&change_skin=103374]http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Maliszewski_Witold&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364447&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=118559&strona=3&change_lang=1&change_skin=103374 (http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Maliszewski_Witold&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd%5B6)
One more composition by Witold Maliszewski - in the Downloads
5 Songs to texts by Leopold Staff (Polish Poet, 1878-1957, short info on him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Staff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Staff) )
In the announcement nothing was told on the date of composition of the songs.
Anyhow recording is over 60 years old. The soloist is:
Wiktor Brégy (b. 1903 in Kiev, d. 1976 in Warsaw) Polish Singer, son of a Frenchman working in Russia and a Greek woman. In 1920 his family moved to Warsaw. He studied law at the Warsaw University and also music. In 1920 was engaged to the Warsaw Opera. In 1931-33 he was the soloist at the Opéra Comique in Paris, in 1934-39 sung at at operas in Switzerland. During WW2 was engaged in resistance. Was arrested and kept in Pawiak, Stutthof and Altvorwerk. Managed to escape and found himself in Krakow.
After the war He was active as pedagogue and opera director
It's possible at least no.4 may have to be removed from our downloads section, if only because of this (http://sklep.polskieradio.pl/Products/4365-witold-maliszewski-trzy-piora-piesn-sl-leopold-staff.aspx) and our policy about commercially available downloads (the performers and work are the same) - especially since that seems to be a Polish Radio site and they may well have the rights to the recording and to charge for the recording. (Hopefully searching will not reveal that the other four are on other pages similarly!)
hmmm! yes, we have problem. I agree even to delete the whole upload of songs however I do not expect that remaining ones have been offered for commercial download on other websites.
I delete it. All five songs are available on the Polish Radio website.
sorry, that happenet to me for the very first time. In fact it seems rather strange that they offer particularly that composition.
It's good to know of the work, anycase, and thank you for the biographical material etc.!
In the Dowloads there are two short pieces:
STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO (1819-1872)
Two Daces from the Ballet ,,Count Monte Christo" (1866)
1. Mazur
2. Spanish Dance
It is rather funny that we can find in the ballet on Monte Christo even Polish National Dance - Mazur :)
FELIKS RYBICKI (1899-1978)
,,Wedding" - Overture for Symphony Orchestra
The piece employs, what is not surprising, motives of Polish national dances.
In the Dowmloads / Polish Symphonics this time not symphonic music but a number of solo piano pieces by Aleksander Tansman can be found.
As far as I know they (in this performance) have not been released on LP or CD.
Furthermore I intend to upload also Tansman's: Le tour de monde en miniature, Quatres dances polonaises and Rhapsodie hebraique - music recorded in 1987 on the Polskie Nagrania cassette, also performed by Malicki.
According to my knowledge this cassete was not been reissued on CD however I want to be sure it was not. Does anybody from the UC community has any comments?
No, these works (same performances, that I can tell - Tour de monde, rhapsodie, Quatre danses, along with performances of works by Paderewski that had been on another disc and played by another pianist) were indeed reissued on CD in 1990. A check of WorldCat (http://worldcat.org) using the search terms Malicki Tansman sufficed to determine this :) (No other discs of works of music by Tansman - or anyway only one, i assume it's the same - are listed in the Malicki page discography (http://waldemarmalicki.com/discography.php).)
thank you eschiss1 for information. it seems I missed this CD by Polskie Nagrania. I do have Kobayashi's LP with Paderewski and cannot remember LP with the Tansman - only cassette.
Another thing.
I do want to upload piano music by Tausig played by Michael Ponti - that was issued here in Poland by WIFON in 1980 on cassette and for sure was not reissued on CD.
I can see in the worldcat the LP of 1972 by Candide with ponti in almost similar repertoire as on WIFON but for sure Ponti recorded it in Warsaw in 1980 (according to sleeve notes) - producer was Stanisław Dybowski who also recorded for WIFON (LPs) some extravagant version of Chopin's pf cto no. 1 in the Tausig's edition, no. 2 in version by Cortot, pf cto by Wieniawski coupled with Tausig's Hungarian Gypsy Airs for pf and orchestra. They were played by Setrak and ??? and then were reissued on CDs by Chant du monde.
as promised before I have uploaded Piano concerto by Deszczyński plus two other pieces by Polish 19th century composers - all performed during the same evening - the 5th Festival of the Polish Chamber Music, Warsaw, 13.10.2007 (taken live from the concert hall)
ANTONI STOLPE (1851-1872)
Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra (1868)
IGNACY FELIKS DOBRZYŃSKI (1807-1867)
Fantasy for Trumpet and Orchestra in G major op. 35 (ca. 1839)
JÓZEF DESZCZYŃSKI (1781-1844)
Piano Concerto in F major op. 25 (18??)
recorded by my friend using simple voice recorder so the quality is not excellent, some distortions are present, perhaps someone from you can improve the sound. It would be greatly welcomed
I pestered Marek mercilessly to upload the Desczynski Piano Concerto and I'm so glad that I did!
Thank you so much for all three beautiful works.
Music of Pawel Lukaszewski
(http://www.lukaszewski.org.uk/twarz.jpg)
Adagietto for String Orchestra(2009)
The Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra
Piotr Borkowski, Conductor
Utopia (for Orchestra- 2008)
The Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra
Szymon Bywalec,
Lukaszewski specializes in sacred/choral music, but these instrumentals are quite accessible if you are comfortable with the modern "spiritual" sound. His is alive and well, from what I can determine, and with the information below from the Living Composers Project, you can contact him if you wish....
Lukaszewski, Pawel (b. September 19, 1968, Czestochowa). Polish composer of mostly choral and vocal works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a conductor.
Mr. Lukaszewski is the son of the composer Wojciech Lukaszewski (b. 1936 – d. 1978). He studied cello with Grzegorz Janusz at the High School of Music in Czestochowa from 1981-87, where he graduated with a diploma with distinction. He studied cello with Andrzej Wróbel at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1987-92, where he also studied composition with Marian Borkowski from 1991-95 and there earned his MMus in both subjects, as well as his DMus in composition in 2000. He then had post-graduate studies in choral conducting with Ryszard Zimak at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in 1994-95. In addition, he has attended masterclasses with Barbara Marcinkowska, Harald Ossberger and Boguslaw Schäffer.
Among his honors are First Prize in the competition of the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music (1994, for Arrampicata), Second Prize in the Young Composers Forum in Kraków (1994, for Winterreise) and the Prize of the President of Czestochowa (1995, for his entire oeuvre). He has also received Second Prize in the Adam Didur competition in Sanok (1996, for Recordationes de Christo moriendo) and Second Prize in the competition of the chorus Florilège Vocal de Tours (1998, for Two Lent Motets). In addition, he earned a recommendation in the Jihlava competition in Prague (1998, for Beatus Vir [one section]), the award and medal from the Baltic Arts University in Koszalin (1998), and the Polonia Restituta Cross (order of the knight, 1998). He was also nominated for the title Man of the Year by the American Biographical Institute (2000) and earned two Third prizes in the Pro Arte competition in Wroclaw (2003, for Church Songs [two sections]).
He has earned grants from numerous organizations, including annual grants from ZAiKS, the society of authors and composers, from 1995-99 and biannual grants since 2001. His works have been heard throughout Poland, as well as in Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, Ukraine, the USA, and Vatican City.
As a conductor, he has served as second conductor of the Stefan Wyszynski University Choir in Warsaw since 1994 and as conductor of the chamber chorus Musica Sacra in Warsaw since 1999.
Mr. Lukaszewski is also active in other positions. He has served as president of the Sacred Music Society in Warsaw since 1992. He has also served as the artistic secretary of the Laboratory of Contemporary Music in Bialystok since 1994 and as the secretary-general of the Laboratory of Contemporary Music Society in Warsaw since 1995.
He has taught composition at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw since 1996, where he has been an associate professor since 2001 and director of counterpoint studies since 2002. He also taught in Chile as a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and the Universidad de Playa Ancha in Valparaíso in 2003.
He is the brother of the composer Marcin Lukaszewski.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: lukaszewski@chopin.edu.pl or lukaszewskip@poczta.onet.pl
Street address: Mr. Pawel Lukaszewski, ul. Odkryta 38A, M. 20, 03-140 Warsaw, Poland
Cellular phone: + 485 0133 9902 or + 482 2814 9592
Marek - the Deszczyński concerto was published by Hofmeister of Leipzig in 1833 according to their own Monatsberichte (HMB 1833, page 36.) So no later than that, at any rate. (They also published two polonaises for piano duet by him the year before , and his Variations Op.21 turn up - in a Hofmeister publication called Le jeune pianiste, a collection with works by Deszczyński and others; I very much suspect that's a reprint...- in the Monatsberichte in 1838 but that's all I see in the search engine offhand between 1829 and 1900- I may not be looking hard enough. May have been published elsewhere earlier of course! )
Worldcat does list a 1827? publication also by Hofmeister of a Deszczyński piano quartet, also (in A minor, Op.39 - ???). Actually, according to this (http://books.google.com/books?id=D0BAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143), ca.1827 is possible, no later than 1828 anyway for the piano quartet which is described in some detail in French in that Google page (can transcribe later...). The polonaise I mentioned is dated there rather earlier, to 1817.
jowcol-
Thank you so much for the two Lukaszewski pieces :)
One of the very finest composers of modern but gorgeously beautiful music around today :)
Boleslaw Szabelski, Symphony 3 (1951)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Boleslaw_Szabelski.jpg/220px-Boleslaw_Szabelski.jpg)
Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)
Conducted by Krzysztof Missona (Thanks to Markniew!)
Radio Broadcast (Likely between 1964 and 1974).
From the collection of Karl Miller
Although Szabelski is better known for his later work with atonality, and also his mentorship to Gorecki, this work is much more type of symphonies that a Miaskovsky or Shostakovitch would write. there are some dissonant/impressionist moments in the beginning, but the first movement as a whole struck me a s very well-structured work of symphonic writing. The ending is somewhat akin to Shostakovitch's 5th in that it chases away the melancholia with a very uplifting and powerful finale. From what I have been able to find, his first three symphonies have never been commercially recorded-- and based on this, I would consider that a great loss.
(An interesting note on the ORTF broadcasts- they were pioneers of a stereo technique that they spaced two microphones to approximate the distance between person's ears-- more details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORTF_stereo_technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORTF_stereo_technique)) Of course, I must admit to be pretty ignorant in the realm of recording. )
Wikipedia Bio:
Bolesław Szabelski (3 December 1896 in Radoryż - 27 August 1979 Katowice) was a Polish composer of modern classical music. While his style shifted and varied over the course of his life, he is best known for his atonal work composed during the 1950s and 1960s.
Szabelski studied at Polish Musical Society School with Łysakowski in 1915.[1] He attended the Warsaw Conservatory under Karol Szymanowski. Between 1929 and 1939, he taught organ and composition at the conservatoire of Katowice.[2]
Szabelski began working in the neoclassical and romanticism modes typical of the early 20th C. He adopted the serialist technique[3] in the 1950s and was one of a number of Polish new wave of composers to embrace atonality.[4] His early work had been characterised by monumental forms and fanfare motifs[5] and Szabelski adapted to the new astetic while retaining his old signatures. As a result he developed a style described as "strikingly innovative".[1]
He composed five symphonies (1926, 1934, 1951, 1956 and 1968), as well as concertos, chamber and choral works. Szabelski was highly influential on the "New Polish School" composers of the early 1950s, and had a formative influence on his student Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.
Thank you jowcol for the Szabelski symphony. In fact he changed in late 50s his style into more modern. But his no. 3 sounds good. So does also no. 4.
As to the conductor I expect he was Krzysztof Missona.
Thanks for the clarification!