This interesting disc from Dux surveys early Polish string quartets by two major figures in Polish music who were contemporaries of Chopin, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, and Stanislaw Moniuszko. Moniuszko is best known through his operas and large sacred choral works; outside of the two string quartets played here by the Camerata Quartet, he produced ...
Brana Records is reissuing the extensive recorded legacy of legendary Polish pianist Felicja Blumental practically in its entirety. As Blumental recorded most often with budget labels such as Vox, her legacy can be a mixed bag. Whether or not one wants one of the Brana recordings may in part depend on if one likes the repertoire she plays, which ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sacred music takes up fully half of nineteenth century Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko's output -- the other half is dominated by opera, and his overall output is typified by the opera Halka, his most famous work -- but heretofore little has appeared on disc to represent Moniuszko's efforts on behalf of the church. As good as Halka is, Dux's ...
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