Release Date: 12 January 2024
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547017082
Composer/Series: Chopin's Last Piano Works
Description
With this album, Korean pianist Julius-Jeongwon Kim returns to recording the Chopin repertoire. Twenty years after his debut album, featuring, among others, complete scherzos, he reaches for works from the last period of the composer's oeuvre. He shares with the listeners a nostalgic reflection on musical maturity in the face of impending death while hoping that they will experience the solace and peace that Chopin felt when working on these pieces.
The pianist's intention is to show Chopin as an honest and direct person, not an anguished Romantic. Educated in Vienna and Paris, known to Polish audiences for his participation in the largest festivals, the pianist does not want to be labelled as a Chopin specialist, since he is also fascinated by the music of other composers of the Romantic era, including Rachmaninoff or Schubert. This can be heard in his virtuoso interpretations, free of the typically Polish performance idiom, focused on the quest for a personal vision.
Tracklisting
Massimo Mazzeo, Orchestra and CHoir of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic
Lukasz Borowicz, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra
Dominika Falger, Lublin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Pawel Kos-Nowicki
Adam Banaszak, Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz, Warsaw Chamber Opera Choir and Orchestra, Dorota Szczepanska
Radoslaw Sobczak
Chor "Astrolabium", Tomasz Drozdek T.ETNO, Kinga Litowska
Monika Plachta, Chor Mieszany Katedry Wawelskiej, Andrzej Korzeniowski, Pawel Wajrak, Katarzyna Luk
Roberta Mameli, Adam Kruzel, Polski Chor Kameralny, Sinfonia Varsovia, Jan Lukaszewski
