Release Date: 04 October 2024
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547020372
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Elegiaque
Description
"Elegiaque" includes a collection of compositions written with guitar and lute in mind. It features pieces with themes of melancholy, sadness and rev-erie. The album begins with a few fancies by English lutenist John Dowland; in his compositions, he would combine elaborate Renaissance polyphonies with melodies whose vocal features were clearly inspired by Italian influences.
Fernando Sor's Fantasia, written after the death of his student, is a monumental work. Although it was created in the Romantic era, it contains a number of references to the rhetoric of the Renaissance and Baroque.
In turn, it is thematically connected with the last link of the album, a collection of several songs by Franz Schubert, including "Death and the Maiden" - these are free arrangements drawing more from Liszt's transcription than from the original.
Milosz Maczynski is a virtuoso performing in many European countries, a prizewinner of international competitions and a member of the Cracow Guitar Quartet. He tells the musical story of melancholy while maintaining vocal continuity of the phrase even in polyphonic fragments and, above all, masterfully using time.
Tracklisting
Chor "Astrolabium", Tomasz Drozdek T.ETNO, Kinga Litowska
Monika Plachta, Chor Mieszany Katedry Wawelskiej, Andrzej Korzeniowski, Pawel Wajrak, Katarzyna Luk
Roberta Mameli, Adam Kruzel, Polski Chor Kameralny, Sinfonia Varsovia, Jan Lukaszewski
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
Cracow Golden Quintet
Capella Warmiensis Restituta, Ingrida Gapova, Kacper Szelazek, Aleksander Rewinski, Piotr Pieron
Adnieszka Rehlis, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, Magdalena Blum
Roksana Kwasnikowska, Krzysztof Stanienda
Alessandro Deljavan
Claudio Arrau
Martin Nobauer
Alexei Lubimov
Cristian Sandrin
Yuuko Shiokawa; Andras Schiff
Anja Lechner
Christoph Ullrich
