Andrzej Boreyko, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Bartek Nizioł – Szymanowski Reimagined (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:21 minutes | 939 MB | Genre: Classical
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The latest Warsaw Philharmonic release, Szymanowski Reimagined, takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the musical landscapes of Karol Szymanowski, rendered in a new orchestral guise. The outstanding violinist Bartłomiej Nizioł and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrzej Boreyko present transcriptions of selected works by this Polish composer. Recorded on this disc are some of Szymanowski’s most interesting compositions, representing – as Danuta Gwizdalanka writes in her introductory essay – ‘the fascinating and diverse musical worlds of Karol Szymanowski: the youthful world full of ecstasy, and two emotionally more restrained, but musically richer worlds created almost two decades later – one woven from subtle sonorities, the other filled with enigmatic tales’. These works were recorded in the form of a ‘translation’ of music composed with the piano in mind into a version for the several dozen instruments of a symphony orchestra. The disc contains the Etude in B flat minor, Op. 4 No. 3 in an arrangement by Grzegorz Fitelberg from 1942, Mythes, Op. 30 arranged by Willem Strietman in 1991, and Masques, Op. 34 in a symphonic version by Jan Krenz from 1985. Szymanowski Reimagined is not just a tribute to the composer’s genius, but also a bold and innovative take on his works. Transferring Szymanowski’s music from the piano to the rich palette of orchestral instruments, the album reveals new emotional and tonal layers to his music, showing its deep and multi-faceted nature. The recordings were made between 5 and 10 June 2023 in the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall.
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Title: Eldar Nebolsin, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit – Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2, Variations on ‘La ci darem la mano’
Year: 2011
Genre: Classical
Released: Naxos – NBD0012
Duration: 01:02:38
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Container: BDMV
Audio # 1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 96 kHz / 5368 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 2: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4628 kbps / 24-bit
Using the new Polish National Chopin Edition, acclaimed pianist Eldar Nebolsin and Poland’s national orchestra conducted by the renowned Polish conductor Antoni Wit, here present fresh interpretations of Chopin’s great works for piano and orchestra. The Second Piano Concerto was written before the first and completed in 1830, the year in which the composer set out for Vienna and then Paris. Chopin’s Variations on Là ci darem la mano, bear witness to his admiration for Mozart, instilled by his earliest teacher, the Bohemian Wojciech Żywny. The Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, Op. 22, was written in Vienna, and later augmented with the introductory Andante spianato.
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Eldar Nebolsin, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit – Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2, Variations on ‘La ci darem la mano’ (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:38 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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On this well-balanced recording, refined pianist Eldar Nebolsin continues his superb partnership with renowned conductor Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic. Beautifully timed, the technically impressive pianist emerges with sparkling interpretations of these Chopin masterpieces. Every nuance is captured with new depth and clarity on this expressive hi-res download. This benchmark recording is highly recommended.
The best new recordings of all six of Chopin’s works for piano and orchestra. “ Classic FM
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Eldar Nebolsin, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit – Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1, Fantasia on Polish Airs, Krakowiak (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:25 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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As a teenager, Chopin was a performer-composer and wrote this to showcase his skills. In his own words, the goal was ‘reviving in one’s soul beautiful memories’. Key features of the work are its dramatic lyricism and a vivacious Rondo.
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Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra – Kletzki, Maklakiewicz & Others: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:08:11 minutes | 2,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ladies and gentlemen, Dear music lovers, It is with great pleasure that I place in your hands my first recording with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. (…) Composing and conducting are two very different arts, and yet they very often interpenetrate. The album that you will hear in a moment clearly illustrates this fact as it offers an introduction to great Polish figures of 20th-century musical culture who were familiar with both professions. The first part of the album features works that were written in the first half of the 20th century by two composers who were very unlike one other: Paul Kletzki, an artist who due to his complicated biography is known in the world more as a conductor then as a composer, and Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, who was director of the Warsaw Philharmonic in the years 1947–1948. These are truly outstanding pieces, and yet until recently were largely undiscovered – I sincerely hope that our recording will encourage Polish and foreign conductors to embrace these works. The second part, in turn, includes adaptations of a number of world famous musical pieces (by Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, and Gesualdo da Venosa) made – and marked with their signature features – by two great Polish conductors, Stanisław Skrowaczewski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, who were both very closely associated with the Warsaw Philharmonic and whose output as composers was also quite significant. I regard the selection included in my first recording with the Warsaw Philharmonic to be particularly interesting and I hope that it will arouse your interest too, and that the performance will prove to be an exceptional experience for both you and for myself – Andrzej Boreyko Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic.
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Ilya Gringolts, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Andrey Boreyko – Tchaikowsky: Violin Concerto Classico – Kancheli: Libera me (Quasi-Requiem) [Live] (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:38 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Classical
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Despite the rather numerous and diverse orchestral line-up, the idea of concertare has a more chamber-like character here. The soloist is usually not directly confronted with the massive sound of a full orchestral tutti, but rather is involved in dialogues and interactions with small groups of instruments. With exceptional naturalness, André Tchaikowsky managed to achieve in this concerto a balance between solo violin and a full-scale symphony orchestra, employing textures of a linear, quasi-polyphonic character – enriched, however, by intense and refined harmony and contrapuntal devices drawing on the Baroque tradition.
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