Release Date: 29 April 2022
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547017907
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
The present CD features premiere recordings of piano works by Giedymin Rodkiewicz, previously unknown to the general public.
This oeuvre, so far available only in manuscripts and a few 19th-century prints, is shown to a broader audience for the first time. Giedymin Rodkiewicz (1834-1891) was an artist influenced by the Romantic musical tradition expressed in the idea of programme and emotions, tinged with salon sentimentality. His direct source of inspiration was the music of Fryderyk Chopin. Rodkiewicz also focused exclusively on piano music, creating mainly dance miniatures (waltzes, mazurkas), romantic nocturnes and impromtpus. The composer, endowed with melodic invention and artistic panache, managed to unleash the maximum potential of these genres, which was quite a challenge in the post-Chopin era. The performer thanks to whom music lovers will be able to hear Rodkiewicz's compositions for the first time is Wlodzimierz Lebiecki, a pianist and musicologist from Belarus, i.e. from the area where the composer lived and worked. The artist is a recognised musician, decorated many times by various cultural institutions, personally involved in the dissemination of the musical heritage of the extremely interesting multinational cultural borderland the former Republic of Poland used to be.
Tracklisting
Aukso - Chamber Orchestra Of The City Of Tychy, Camerata Silesia Katowice City Singers' Ensemble, Marek Mos
Rafal Janiak, Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Lodz Grand Theatre
Milosz Maczynski
Kacper Nowa, Lukasz Krupinski
Joanna Morska-Osinska
Ewa Gawronska, Various Artists
Altberg Ensemble, Jorg-Andreas Botticher
Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
Lea Suter
Aart Bergwerff
Ran Jia
Johannes Krahl
Elke Volker
Henry Fairs
