Description
In 1762, as the six-year-old Mozart began captivating Europe, Feliks Janiewicz was born in Vilnius--to a family of noble stock, as we can surmise from the sources. His early life is virtually unknown. We have only unconfirmed rumours that he was a member of the royal chapel of King Stanislaus and spent some time in Nancy. In the mid-1780s we find him in Vienna, where he apparently met Haydn and Mozart. According to one unverifiable anecdote, the former gave him lessons in composition while the latter dedicated to Janiewicz his Andante in A major for violin and orchestra, K. 470, from 1785.As a travelling virtuoso typical of those times, Janiewicz left Vienna for Italy, then in 1792 he settled in the British Isles: first in London, then in Liverpool, and finally in Edinburgh. A versatile and enterprising man, not only performing, but he became gradually more involved in the organising of musical life (in 1813 he was among the 30 founders of the prestigious Philharmonic Society in London, then in 1815, in Edinburgh, he initiated a festival and concert series which laid the foundations for the now famous annual Edinburgh Festival!). Janiewicz composed five violin concertos, nowadays appreciated increasingly highly. The F major Concerto is the ideal illustration of his ability as a performer - the violin part is marked by such sweetness and veritably Mozartean airiness that one would wish to listen to Janiewicz's work many times over, and in Chouchane Siranossian's marvellous interpretation--without end. Coupled here with Mozart's Symphony No. 27, the oh! Orkiestra is conducted by Martyna Pastuszka. The oh! Orkiestra was founded in 2012 and thanks to its dynamic and consistent development under Martyna Pastuszka, it has gained a reputation as the leading orchestra specialising in historically informed performance in Poland and one of the musically most interesting orchestras in Europe.
