Description
The album featuring Feliks Janiewicz's Violin Concerto No. 5 in E minor and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony in A major, K. 201 is the third instalment of an ambitious project undertaken by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute together with violinist Chouchane Siranossian, {oh!} Orchestra and Martyna Pastuszka. The project encompasses the release of all five violin concertos by the Polish composer alongside the complete symphonies of Mozart, performed on period instruments. Feliks Janiewicz, an important figure in both Polish and European musical culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, one of Europe's most highly acclaimed violin virtuosos was also a popular composer, and an organizer of cultural life (including as co-founder of the first music festival in Edinburgh). His works have been restored in all its brilliance and given the recognition it deserves. His concertos, written in the classical style, are works full of lightness and elegance, revealing Janiewicz's profound admiration for Mozart. Shaped with beautiful musical phrasing, enriched by occasionally surprising ideas and a distinctive sense of humour, they clearly foreshadow the coming romantic era.