Julia Kociuban, Messages Quartet
Release Date: 29 April 2022
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547017921
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
On the album we present you with the music of Grazyna Bacewicz and Alexandre Tansman in a chamber version – these are piano quintets from the 1950s and 1960s.
Grazyna Bacewicz is one of the most famous composers of the last century. She was distinguished by a bold, experimental approach to music and, at the same time, an excellent compositional technique, characterized by precision and predilection for an orderly form. This made her belong to the Neoclassical trend, which is reflected by the Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952) featured on the album. The second piece of this genre, Piano Quintet No. 2, was written in 1965 and shows a new, sonoristic approach to the sound matter, but it is still kept in Bacewicz's elegant and at the same time temperamental compositional idiom. Alexandre Tansman created his piano quintet in 1955; critics also classified him as a Neoclassical composer. In his Musica a cinque, he drew inspiration from Baroque music both in terms of form and technique, combining polyphonic and homophonic textures. This piece has been almost forgotten and rarely performed so far, so we are all the happier to present it to the audience. The piano part is interpreted by Julia Kociuban, an extremely talented pianist, performing on many continents, also experienced as a teacher and organizer of musical life. She is accompanied by the Messages Quartet, an ensemble specializing in Polish chamber music performance, active since 2014.
"This is the second excellent recording of Bacewicz's Piano Quintets to emerge in the past few years. Vivid playing." - BBC Music Magazine, 4 STARS
Tracklisting
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
Jacek Szponarski, Szymon Mechlinski, Jolanta Pszczolkowsla-Pawlik
Jan Milosz Zarzycki, Witold Lutoslowski Lomza Chamber Philharmonic
Pawel Przytocki, Lódz Philharmonic Orchestra, Wojciech Niedziolka
Tomasz Ritter, Tansman Trio
Messages Quartet, Piotr Lato
Malgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera, Andrzej Karalow
Maciej Tworek, Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra
Zemlinsky Quartet, Paolo Giacometti
Stephane Tetreault; Olivier Hebert-Bouchard
Torleif Thedee & Marianna Shirinyan
Magnus Boye Hansen, Mathias Halvorsen
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
Ensemble La Francaise
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
