Polish Music for Cello and Orchestra
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Label: CD Accord
Cat No: ACD313
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 10th February 2023
Contents
Artists
Marcin Zdunik (cello)Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Andrzej BoreykoWorks
Cello Concerto no.1C-67
Cello Concerto
Fantasy for cello and orchestra
Artists
Marcin Zdunik (cello)Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Andrzej BoreykoAbout
What do the four works for solo instrument and orchestra chosen for this recording have in common, besides the cello, that most soulful of instruments that in the hands of a virtuoso can make us hold our breath in anticipation of each note to come? Well, they are also linked by the fact that they were written by composers of Polish origins who lived during the twentieth century, most of them born in the same city, Łódź (except for Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński, associated personally and professionally with Gdańsk). In some of the works, we also hear distinct and intentional inspirations from Polish traditional music. In this interesting selection, we have both works by distinctly recognisable artists – Grażyna Bacewicz and Alexandre Tansman – and also less frequently performed compositions by Jabłoński and Miłosz Magin, which certainly deserve our attention.
All four composers present a common front with regard to musical traditions: they see both a need for their continuation and a need to update and transform the means shaped by those traditions. Although they represented different aesthetic outlooks and wrote in different styles, they all tackled the most important problem of twentieth-century music: relating to the past while looking to the future. In music, those two contrasting notions – tradition and innovation – have proved impossible to reconcile. Each of our composers turned to traditional forms and major–minor tonality in a different way, in order to find a bridge between modern composition techniques and listeners’ perceptual capacities and habits.
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