Beginning on August 17, six consecutive Sundays will be devoted to chamber and organ music presented in the historical skansen of manor houses and churches around the Wygiełzowo-Lipowiec Natural Park. Artists from Poland, Belarus, Germany and Italy are featured in a number of performances, including a concert version of excerpts from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, vocal…Continue Reading Chamber And Organ Music In Silesia
Paweł Albiński, a young Kraków-based pianist, devotes his annual recital programs to music by unknown or little-known composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Researching in various libraries in Poland and Ukraine, Albiński has discovered about 30 works by 16 European composers and presented them for audiences in recitals in Kraków and Lviv during the…Continue Reading Albiński Spotlights Unknown Composers
Benjamin Grosvenor – DANCES Isaac Albéniz (1860 – 1909): Tango Op. 165 No.2; ; J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750): Partita No.4 in D , BWV 828; Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849): Andante spianato and Grande polonaise in E flat, Op.22; Morton Gould (1913 – 1996): Boogie Woogie Etude; Enrique Granados (1867 – 1916): Valses Poéticos;…Continue Reading Grosvenor ‘Dances’ With Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin – Pauline Viardot amitié amoureuse Arrangements and transcriptions of works by Chopin by Pauline Viardot and Luigi Bordese (see full list of works at www.dux.pl) Ryszard Cieśla – baritone, Małgorzata Kubala – soprano, Francisco Soriano – piano DUX 1148 Piotr Moss Piotr Moss: D’un silence… – concerto for clarinet and orchestra; Loneliness…Continue Reading New on DUX
Born This Month 1 September 1900 – Kazimierz WIŁKOMIRSKI, cellist, conductor, teacher (died in 1990) 5 September 1924 – Krystyna MOSZUMAŃSKA-NAZAR, composer 5 September 1938 – Piotr LACHERT, pianist, composer, pedagogue 6 September 1916 – Tadeusz DOBRZAŃSKI, composer and conductor 7 September 1943 – Elzbieta STEFAŃSKA, harpsichordist 9 September 1921 – Andrzej DOBROWOLSKI, composer (died…Continue Reading September 2014 Anniversaries