If you're looking for a single disc coupling the two violin concertos of twentieth century Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, this 2006 disc by violinist Ilya Kaler accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic under Antoni Wit is a real bargin. While there are half a dozen other couplings of the two works available -- including Thomas Zehetmair's 1995 ...
Anyone who thinks of Witold Lutoslawski as "the academic composer's composer" has probably not heard his riveting Concerto for orchestra (1954), a work in three dramatic movements that brims with muscular themes, splendid orchestration, vibrant colors, exciting rhythms, and everything else that can be extolled in the best modern orchestral music. ...
Even listeners who may already have decided on who their favorite pianist for Chopin is will likely still want to make room on their shelves for this recording by pianist Olga Kern. Gold Medal winner in the 2001 Van Cliburn competition, Kern's discography and live performances have earned her much well-deserved prestige. Her playing synthesizes ...
Because George Crumb's atmospheric compositions are usually scored for chamber ensembles and filled with myriad quiet effects, his larger-scaled orchestral works may be more difficult to recognize and appreciate. The private tone that Crumb practically trademarked, in such works as Ancient Voices of Children and Music for a Summer Evening, is ...
Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko's Litanie Ostrobramskie (Litanies of Ostra Brama) consist of four Marian canticles written in honor of the shrine to the Virgin Mary at Ostra Brama cathedral in Vilnius, a place venerated by Lithuanians and Poles alike as sacred. Reckoned as the finest of Moniuszko's more than 90 sacred works, these litanies are ...
Polish composer Karol Szymanowski was touched by many of the stylistic currents that crossed Europe in the early twentieth century, but a good performance of his music is one that emphasizes the Polishness he brought to his music even as he adopted ideas from the outside. This one, part of a fine series from Naxos exploring the works of this ...
Listeners who have wholeheartedly embraced the fin de siècle music of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, and French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel have never really responded to the fin de siècle music of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. Who can say why? As this disc coupling the composer's ...
The pieces included on Naxos' 2008 release of choral works by Karol Szymanowski exactly matches those of its 1996 recording featuring Karol Stryja leading the Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, but the remarkable quality of this new version fully justifies the duplication of the repertoire. Antoni Wit, whose stature has become more ...
While Polish composer Karol Szymanowski lived long enough to go through several style periods, his contemporary Mieczyslaw Karlowicz died in an avalanche in 1909 and thus had his development arrested in the mid fin de siècle. This disc, the first volume in Naxos' edition of Karlowicz's symphonic poems, is dedicated to the third, fourth, and ...
With one of the longest, continuous performing careers within the last century or so, pianist Arthur Rubinstein was also one of the most extensively recorded artists of his time. The vast majority of his recorded works are available on the Rubinstein Collection produced by RCA. However, there are still several gems available on other labels for ...
Witold Rowicki's performances with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, and the Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, date from the early 1960s, and their somewhat rough sound quality might warrant putting them in the historical recordings category. But don't be put off by the occasional harshness ...
As noted American folk poet Bruce Springsteen once famously rhymed urgency and emergency in his early lyrics "For You," so did Witold Rowicki leading the Warsaw Philharmonic infamously couple urgency and emergency in these early '60s recordings of Brahms First and Third symphonies. Rowicki's take on the First is big, brusque, and dangerously close ...
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