Jerzy Maksymiuk: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 01 January 2010
Label: Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571153513
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Paderewski
Description
Paderewski's sole symphonic essay, completed in 1909, is one of his last works, completed before taking up the political career which culminated in his becoming Poland's Prime Minister. The Symphony is an archetypal late-Romantic specimen, strongly nationalistic in intent and expression. It's a big work in three movements, over 70 minutes in duration, and this is the first complete Western recording of it. (An earlier one available many years ago on LP was drastically cut.) The language is sombre and intense, the sonorities individual. (Paderewski asks for three sarrusophones in the first movement; they were somewhat difficult to assemble for the recording!)
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Laurence Perkins
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
Antal Dorati; Minneapolis SO; Philharmonia Hungarica
Frans Bruggen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Olga Pasiecznik, Roel
Lorenzo Coppola, {oh!} Orchestra, Martyna Pastuszka
Violina Petrychenko; Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra
Anaelle Tourret, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Vasily Petrenko, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Bar A
Various artists
