5902547018249

Michal Gorczynski: Regions

Radical Polish Culture

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Format: CD

Cat No: DUX1824

Release Date:  04 February 2022

Label:  DUX Recording Producers

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5902547018249

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    Can lively rural violin melodies be played on a 'fat' contrabass clarinet? Sure, they can. You only have to be Michal Gorczynski, who has performed on four continents playing Warsaw-Autumnal avant-garde (Kwartludium), experimental improvisations, but also Polish early music (Bastarda) and Jewish (Ircha), Gambian (duo with Buba Kuyateh) or Indonesian themes (the Bidadari project). He has been interested in Polish folk music for a long time. After all, as a composer he has written, among others, Rondo a la krakowiak for screaming pianist and bass clarinet (sic!). He also experimented with 'triple' rhythms in the Slavic-African Polonka. But it was only last year that he dared to take on the challenge of playing authentic folk melodies – with great success – as part of the Radical Polish Songbook project. Over time, free improvisations turned into well-thought-out multi-layered forms, and the magic of the recording studio allowed Michal to turn the bass clarinet into a folk band and even a wind orchestra.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. LUBELSKIE 504
      • 2. RADOMSKIE 292
      • 3. LUBELSKIE 89
      • 4. RZESZOWSKIE 191
      • 5. LUBELSKIE 193
      • 6. LUBELSKIE OCZEPINOWE
      • 7. RADOMSKIE 265
      • 8. RZESZOWSKIE 137
      • 9. RADOMSKIE 213
      • 10. RZESZOWSKIE 172
      • 11. RZESZOWSKIE 84
      • 12. RADOMSKIE 277