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2020-12-24 09:33:08
Promoting Polish music: the second edition of the Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music
[…] such as Chopin, Paderewski, Górecki or Penderecki, and also less well-known names such as Antoni Kątski, Eugeniusz Pankiewicz and Stefan Kisielewski, including Polish female composers Maria Szymanowska and Grażyna Bacewicz. (the full list is available on the competition website). So that piano finalists must choose to include a concerto by Grażyna Bacewicz, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Franciszek Lessel, Józef Władysław Krogulski , Artur Malawski, Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ludomir Różycki , Józef Wieniawski or Władysław Żeleński. The competition will be recorded and these recordings distributed worldwide; in this way, the organisers hope to be releasing a number of world premiere recordings. There are no age or nationality limits for the competition. There are prizes for the winners of the piano and the chamber ensemble categories, as well as a number of other awards, both financial and opportunities to perform. The first Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music took […]
2020-09-27 23:00:00
Władysław Żeleński - Piano Works 2 - Ławrynowicz
Władysław Żeleński (1837-1921): Piano Works 2Joanna Ławrynowicz, pianoActe Préalable 2011AP0238[flac, booklet, EAC log] This completes the short series of Żeleński's piano works published by Acte Préalable. (The post with Volume 1 is here: http://meetinginmusic.blogspot.com/2020/08/wadysaw-zelenski-piano-works-1.html )
2020-08-30 23:00:00
Władysław Żeleński - Piano Works 1 - Ławrynowicz
Władysław Żeleński (1837-1921): Piano Works 1 Joanna Ławrynowicz, piano Acte Préalable 2005 [Flacs & booklet] Even in his native Poland Władysław Żeleński is remembered mostly as the father of Tadeusz 'Boy' Żeleński, a free-thinker, translator (of French classics, including also philosophers like Descartes), poet, literary critic, women rights spokesman and anti-church activist. His father, whose music is presented here, seems to have been a conservative... I recommend listening at least to the solemn 'March in Honour of the Immortal National Bard Adam Mickiewicz' (who, which always made me laugh, starts the most important Polish epic poem with the words 'Lithuania, my country!') and to the well-rounded Sonata in E minor.Żeleński's Piano Concerto and Piano Quartet have appeared from Hyperion in excellent recordings. In Poland he is mostly known from songs and solo organ preludes. He seemed to have a real knack for effective two-part counterpoint, which might be […]
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2014-08-25 20:36:17
International Polish mezzo dies, aged 81
[…] childhood experiences in Warsaw at that time. Initially, the young Barbara wanted to study medicine, but a chance encounter led to her auditioning at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw to study singing. She completed her studies there, obviously with great success, as just three years later she won first prize in the prestigious Warsaw Singing Competition. A series of recordings for Polski Radio followed, where she recorded Lieder by Moniuszko, Karłowicz, Niewiadomski, Żeleński, Opieński and Foster, as well as Schuman and Brahms. Throughout her career, critics praised her interpretation of Lieder for its sensitivity and the attention she gave to language and poetic nuances. Barbara Miszel Giardini’s stage debut came in 1956, when she was engaged by the opera in the Polish city of Posen. There she sang Hansel in Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” and Magdalena in Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” The role of […]
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