Maciej Kulakowski, Maria Slawek, Marcin Maczynski, Michal Balas
Release Date: 10 November 2023
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547018805
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
This release presents a continuation of DUX Recording Producers' series which explores the chamber music of Krzysztof Penderecki. The album includes compositions for solo cello performed by artists from all over the world. A number of recordings featured were also made during the Warsaw Witold Lutoslawski Cello Competition, which Maciej Kulakowski won in 2011.
Kulakowski's career as a soloist and chamber musician confirms his extraordinary lyrical talent and virtuosity, reflected in the interpretations of Penderecki's works. These, in turn, set the highest standards for cellists.
The album begins with the most avant-garde piece in terms of performing techniques and sonoristic effects. However, in the following works, the listener will discover the lyrical element and folk motifs, for which the composer would frequently reach. Admirers of Pendereki's work will notice quotations of his own melodies, for example in the Violoncello totale written for the Tchaikovsky Competition one can hear phrases from the Concerto grosso and the String Quartet No. 3.
The album also features lesser-known compositions – the Duo concertante for violin and cello, and a wonderful love confession; Serenata for 3 cellos dedicated to the composer's wife.
Tracklisting
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
Jacek Szponarski, Szymon Mechlinski, Jolanta Pszczolkowsla-Pawlik
Jan Milosz Zarzycki, Witold Lutoslowski Lomza Chamber Philharmonic
Pawel Przytocki, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra, Wojciech Niedziolka
Tomasz Ritter, Tansman Trio
Messages Quartet, Piotr Lato
Malgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera, Andrzej Karalow
Maciej Tworek, Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra
Torleif Thedeen (cello) & Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Magnus Boye Hansen (violin), Mathias Halvorsen (piano)
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
Ensemble La Francaise
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
Trio Parnassus
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
