Listen to Peter Jablonski Plays Grażyna Bacewicz Piano Works Track List (Total of 20 Tracks) Ten Concert Etudes – 22:48 Two Etudes on Double Notes – 6:09 Piano Sonata No. 1 (1949) – 18:10 Piano Sonata No. 2 (1953) – 17:29 Peter Jablonski has just released his 3rd solo album under the Ondine label….Continue Reading Peter Jablonski Plays Grażyna Bacewicz
The East-West Chamber Orchestra has just released their latest under the NAXOS label, Mieczysław Weinberg’s 2nd and 4th Chamber Symphonies. This completes the series, as they previously recorded and released Weinberg’s 1st and 3rd Chamber Symphonies in 2019. These symphonies were written near the final decade of Weinberg’s life when orchestral music was at the…Continue Reading East-West Chamber Orchestra Weinberg Recording
Musical Messages Praised for their recordings of string quartets by Szymon Laks, Stanisław Moniuszko, Andrzej Panufnik and Krzysztof Penderecki, the Messages String Quartet has yet another exciting release to their credit. Joined by pianist Julia Kociuban, the Messages’ latest album (DUX 1792) features two Piano Quintets by Grażyna Bacewicz and Aleksander Tansman’s Musica a cinque…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: February 2022
DUX label has released a CD of Bartosz Koziak‘s recording of Krzysztof Meyer’s Concerto Canti Amadei Op. 63 for cello and chamber orchestra with Polish Chamber Philharmonic in Sopot. Winner of several international competitions, cellist Bartosz Koziak appeared as soloist with the Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Sinfonia Varsovia, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte…Continue Reading Bartosz Koziak: Canti Amadei
Opus Series Records aims to present contemporary music in a manner that can be broadly understood by a wide audience. The last few decades have shown that the richness of new music styles does not allow for the easy classification of creative phenomena, which is why the Opus Series documents a wide range of music…Continue Reading New on Opus Series Records
The Holiday Season brought us a few nice surprises as soon as we returned to campus after the New Year and collected the PMC mail. Music for the Accordion Accordionist Wiesław Ochwat sent us a fascinating CD, Maciej Zimka—Out of the Circle, a series of chamber works for accordion and violin and accordion and guitar….Continue Reading PMC Gifts: January 2022
The newest album by Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, entitled ‘Anima Æterna’ and recorded on the Erato label, was recently awarded the 2022 International Classical Music Award [ICMA] in the “Baroque Vocal” category. Jakub Józef Orliński has quickly emerged as one of the most vibrant performers on the international classical music scene. Orliński will make…Continue Reading Orliński Wins ICMA & Performance in L.A.
PWM / Anaklasis December is a time of gifts and we are very fortunate at the Polish Music Center to have so many dedicated and generous friends who think of us this time of year. Once again, PWM (Polish Music Publishers) and Editor-in-Chief Dr. Daniel Cichy rose to the top of the list with a…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: December 2021
SONORA Music continues to actively promote artists on its roster, despite the pandemic-induced slowdown in live performances during the past year. They have instead used that time to organize a number of concert premieres as well as recordings and album releases. Celebrations of Krauze, plus Zubel Premiere Conductor Wilson Hermanto led the National Polish Radio…Continue Reading SONORA Artists News: Krauze, Sikora & Koziak
On August 20, the violin and piano duo of Judith Ingolfsson and Vladimir Stoupel released an exciting new CD (OC 491). Recorded at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin-Dahlem—a space with superb acoustics—the repertoire on this Oehms Classic CD features sonatas for violin and piano by Karol Rathaus (1895-1954), Heinz Tiessen (1887-1971), and Paul Arma (1905-1987). These…Continue Reading Rathaus Sonata and More!