Philippe Giusiano; Howard Shelley; Sinfonia Varsovia
Release Date: 30 October 2020
Label: NIFCCD
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5906395034505
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Music of Chopin’s Time is series of recordings from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. The aim of the series is to compile a splendid collection of works from Chopin’s musical world in the most outstanding interpretations by artists with an interest in recovering lost beauty.
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the output of Polish composers who, in the shadow of the great exiled genius Chopin laid the foundations of musical culture in their native land.
Dobrzynski’s youthful Piano Concerto in A flat major, Op. 2 was not performed during his lifetime. The composer never proof-read the score or edited the text. In 1986, the manuscript, held in the Warsaw Music Society Library, was reconstructed twice: by Kazimierz Rozbicki and by Krzysztof
Baculewski.
The Concerto has been performed according to both those
versions around a dozen times in all. The present recording made by Philippe Giusiano with the Sinfonia Varsovia is based on Rozbicki’s reconstruction, edited by Howard Shelley, who also conducts Sinfonia Varsovia.
This new recording also includes Theme original varie, in B flat major, Op. 22 (1833–1835), Two Mazurkas from Album Pamiatkowe (c.1846) and (Hommage a Mozart) Fantaisie sur des themes de l’opera “Don Giovanni”, in A major, Op. 59 (1847).
The works presented here constitute a kind of portrait of Dobrzynski the composer-pianist, from the Concerto, the Fantasy and the set of Variations through to the character pieces for salon (Rhapsody, Ricordanza) and the two
mazurkas, which have the formal scheme of a functional dance but display poetical, wistful features.
Dobrzynski’s piano output attests to his talent and his mastery of composition technique of the early Romantic era; it is an important page in Polish music written in Poland
during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Tracklisting
Cyprien Katsaris
Vadym Kholodenko
Ewa Poblocka
Maria Joao Pires
Halina Czerny-Stefanska
Ewa Poblocka
Mateusz Kowalski; Lorenzo Coppola; {oh!} Orkiestra; Martyna Pastuszka
Eric Guo, Oh! Orchestra, Vaclav Luks
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
