In a world full of pointless duplication of already overly familiar repertoire, Hyperion continues to release discs that feature undiscovered or unrecorded repertoire. Having brought the world a wonderful series of recordings under the rubric The Romantic Piano Concerto, Hyperion has begun to release an equally wonderful series of recordings under ...
After restoring his first name, Nigel Kennedy (aka, the artist formerly known as Kennedy), released a series of recordings on EMI as virtuosic and eccentric as himself: East Meets East, Inner Thoughts, The Vivaldi Album, and the Blue Note Sessions. But despite the enormous musical diversity of those records, little could have prepared one for the ...
Out there on the extreme fringe of the repertoire is Karol Szymanowski -- the Polish modernist composer whose opera King Roger is occasionally revived by non-Polish opera companies. Somewhere further out past Szymanowski is Mieczyslaw Karlowicz -- the Polish fin de siècle composer whose three-movement tone poem The Eternal Song is very ...
The period of 1880-1920 is littered with forgotten composers who did not respond to the clarion call of incipient modernism, a trend many in hindsight view as historically inevitable. However, if one could travel back to 1910, one would learn that very idea the decade 1900-1910 would be best remembered by works such as Debussy's La Mer, Scriabin's ...
Dux's Polish Songs features a delightful Polish tenor, Pawel Skaluba, in a program of some of the key Romantic art song literature associated with Poland accompanied tastefully and sensitively by pianist Waldemar Malicki. This sort of thing is not too well known in the West, and the Polish language itself is the problem -- even if one enjoys ...
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 ...
All but unknown when Stanislaw Wislocki first recorded his music in 1965, shadowy composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz has emerged as the major voice in Polish orchestral music before Karol Szymanowski on the basis of only about a dozen works. Naxos' Symphonic Poems 2, featuring the New Zealand Symphony under conductor Antoni Wit, combines three of the ...
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