Cat No:
DUX1868
Release Date: 15 December 2023
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547018683
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
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Description
Anna Kijanowska has been playing mazurkas for a long time. Following her first album, devoted to Karol Szymanowski's pieces, Kijanowska returns to DUX to explore forgotten works by both known and less popular Polish composers.
29 dance miniatures arranged in chronological order show the evolution of the genre over more than 180 years. The mazurka, closely related to the oberek and the kujawiak, has been danced in Poland since the early Middle Ages. In spite of its rural origin, it cemented its popularity not only at weddings; during the partitions, composers would reach for it to manifest their patriotic attitude. The number of works presented on the album proves the immense popularity of mazurkas, and yet neither Zarebski, Moszkowski, Maciejewski nor their most famous creators - Chopin and Szymanowski - are present here. However, echoes of their output can be heard in many compositions.
Anna Kijanowska, a Polish-American pianist involved in the popularization of Polish music through performances on several continents, once again proves that mazurkas are extremely close to her. She shows their beauty and character in a subtle and balanced style. In earlier compositions, folk references take on a rather restrained, veiled form. A genuine kaleidoscope of ideas, interesting harmonic, melodic and textural solutions is hidden in later works, i.e. Neoromantic and contemporary. The mazurka turns out to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration and will probably continue to be such an influence for the next generations of artists.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Michal Kleofas Oginski: Mazurka in G major
- 2. Karol Kurpinski: Mazurka in D major
- 3. Ludwika Dmuszewska: Mazurka in B major
- 4. Ignacy Chudoba: Masure melancolique in G Minor
- 5. Jozef Nowakowski: Mazurka, Op. 19 No. 2
- 6. Stanislaw Moniuszko: Mazurka in D major
- 7. Henryk Rudert: Mazurka in E minor
- 8. Karol Bernard Zaluski: Mazurka in D minor, Op. 6 No. 3
- 9. Kazimierz Lubomirski: Mazurka in E minor Op. 10 No. 3
- 10. Antoni Katski: Mazurka in E major, Op. 132
- 11. Juliusz Janotha: Mazurka in B flat minor, Op. 1 No. 1
- 12. Karol Lipinski: Mazurka in E flat minor
- 13. Oskar Kolberg: Mazurka in E flat major
- 14. Jan Ruckgaber: Mazurka in D major
- 15. Jozef Wielhorski: Mazurka in E minor, Op. 46 No. 1
- 16. Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Mazurka in A minor, Op. 9 No. 2
- 17. Wladyslaw Zelenski: Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 31 No. 1
- 18. Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski: Mazurka in E minor
- 19. Jerzy Gablenz: Mazurka in A minor
- 20. Ignacy Friedman: Mazurka in C minor, Op. 49 No. 2
- 21. Stefan Malinowski: Mazurka in F minor, Op. 6 No. 1
- 22. Aleksander Michalowski: Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 17
- 23. Alfred Gradstein: Mazurka
- 24. Aleksander Tansman: Mazurka
- 25. Marian Borkowski: Mazurka
- 26. Maria Pokrzywinska: Mazurka
- 27. Andrzej Dutkiewicz: Mazurka
- 28. Czeslaw Grudzinski: Mazurka
- 29. Marian Sawa: Mazurka
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