"Orphée et Eurydice"
"Don Giovanni"
"Le nozze di Figaro"
Sonata, cz.IV. Allegro assai
Sérénade
"Raymond"
Phryne
Irena Regina Wieniawska vel Poldowski
Sonata
Largo
Phryne
Tango
Berceuse de l'enfant mourant
Art Chamber Duo
Julita Przybylska - Nowak - piano
Jarosław Pietrzak - violin
Grantor
Daughter of Henryk Wieniawski, pupil of Vincent d'Indy in Paris, she is yet another unjustly forgotten composer connected with Polish culture. In the second decade of the 20th century, her songs gained popularity. She dedicated Lullaby for a Dying Child to Paweł Kochański, and Tango was in the repertoire of Jasha Heifetz. The excellent disc still features Phryne, Largo and Sonata in D minor. The style of this harmonically ambitious, timbrally rich, articulately original music stretches somewhere between Ravel and Szymanowski. Violinists (and pianists), get to work!
Piotr Matwiejczuk
Ruch Muzyczny
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Joseph Achron
Scher op. 42
Aleksander Tansman
Romans
Joseph Szulc
Berceuse op. 4
Joseph Achron
Hebrew Lullaby op. 35 nr 2
Art Chamber Duo
Julita Przybylska - Nowak - piano
Studio Grantor Jarosław Pietrzak - violin
Joseph Szulc
Sonate en la mineur op. 61
Berceuse op. 4
Mélodie orientale
Sérénade
Julita Przybylska - Nowak - piano
Jarosław Pietrzak - violin
DUX
Joseph ( Józef Zygmunt ) SZULC (1875 – 1956) was born in Warsaw into a Jewish family of musical traditions. His father, Henryk Szulc (1836 – 1903), was a violinist, conductor, composer of dance music, a long-serving member of the orchestra of the Great Theatre in Warsaw. Józef Szulc studied piano and composition ( with Zygmunt Noskowski ) and piano at the Institute of Music in Warsaw. He continued his piano studies in Berlin with Maurycy Moszkowski, where he soon became known as a pianist - virtuoso and excellent accompanist. In 1899 he moved to Paris to study composition with Jules Massenet. He developed his pianistic skills under the guidance of Ignacy Jan Paderewski. He also studied conducting. In 1903 Joseph Szulc took the position of conductor at Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. The operetta was the main field of Józef Szulc's work. He also created many piano and chamber works as well as songs with piano accompaniment. He died in Paris in 1956.
Michał Bergson & Karol Kątski
Grand Duo dramatique sur Les Noces de Figaro
Edward Wolff & Henri Vieuxtemps
Duo concertant sur des themes de Don Juan
Józef Wieniawski op.5 & Henryk Wieniawski op.8
Grand Duo Polonais
Art Chamber Duo
Julita Przybylska - Nowak - piano
Jarosław Pietrzak - violin
Grantor
Edward Wolff & Henri Vieuxtemps
Duo brillant sur des motifs de l’Opéra "Orphée et Eurydice"
Duo brillant sur des motifs de l’Opéra "Les Noces de Figaro"
Henri Vieuxtemps
Scène et Romance de l’Opéra "Halka"
Edward Wolff & Henri Vieuxtemps
Duo brillant sur des motifs de l’Opéra "Raymond"
Art Chamber Duo
Julita Przybylska - Nowak - piano
Jarosław Pietrzak - violin
RecArt
Taking a CD with the nineteenth century Polish music for the violin and piano into their hands, many music lovers are unlikely to suppose that it can take listeners into so extensive and interesting regions. While such names as Henryk Wieniawski and Józef Wieniawski or Henri Vieuxtemps relatively often appear on records/CDs and concert programmes, you must be rather fortunate or make careful search to find the output of Michał Bergson, Karola Kątski and Edward Wolff. And yet, in the rich picture of the musical life of Europe in the Romantic era, they were well known and recognised composers. Their traces can be found in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, England and France - in Paris, of course, who brought together many great artists and generated ` number of important artistic trends of several decades of the nineteenth century. After the year 1830, on the wave of the Great Emigration, a rather large group Polish artists arrives in Paris, in a short time, they gain universal recognition and some of them are actually considered the most outstanding virtuosos of the time. Among the pianist, it was Edward Wolff enjoyed such a reputation, both as a performer and composer.
Elżbieta Stępnik
This CD comprises first recordings of opera paraphrases from the beginning of the second half of the 19th century from the world of salons and virtuosity. One work was composed by Vieuxtemps alone, the other three were created together with Edward Wolff, a pianist. They did it for their joint performances. Wolff, a nephew of the Wieniawski brothers, was a respected pianist. In 1868, both of them undertook a concert tour of France, for which they composed these works.
The performers feel comfortable with this task, and their performances show a good feeling for the virtuoso effect, which is possible thanks to their impeccable technique. For anyone liking this kind of music, this release will be rewarding.
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