Release Date: 12 August 2022
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547018386
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
This album presents archival recordings of works by Fryderyk Chopin and Karol Szymanowski, recorded by Polskie Radio from 1954 to 1978, documenting the extraordinary artistry of Jan Ekier (1913–2014), a Polish composer, pianist, teacher and music promoter.
Jan Ekier was one of the most outstanding Polish pianists. Associated with the Warsaw Academy of Music (today the Chopin University of Music) as a teacher and professor in the piano class, he educated many excellent pianists. He also greatly contributed to the development of Chopinology by creating a publishing concept for a source edition of all Chopin's works. That project, in which Ekier was the editor-in-chief, was finished in 2011, resulting in a complete edition of the pieces by the great composer. Jan Ekier, in addition to his performing, editorial, pedagogical and organisational career, was also a composer. He left behind mainly piano pieces, including one concerto and the Highlander Suite for orchestra, in which he expressed his great passion for the Polish mountains.
Tracklisting
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
Jacek Szponarski, Szymon Mechlinski, Jolanta Pszczolkowsla-Pawlik
Jan Milosz Zarzycki, Witold Lutoslowski Lomza Chamber Philharmonic
Pawel Przytocki, Arthur Rubinstein 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
Tsovinar Suflyan
Amy Lin
Kenneth Hamilton
Celeste-Marie Roy
Yarno Missiaen
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Sergey Tanin
David Jalbert
