5902547018416

Piotr Maszynski: Songs

Jolanta Pszczolkowska-Pawlik & Lilianna Zalesinska

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Format: CD

Cat No: DUX1841

Release Date:  12 August 2022

Label:  DUX Recording Producers

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5902547018416

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

  • Description

    The world premiere recording of various works for voice and piano by Polish composer Piotr Maszynski (1855– 1934).

    Maszynski's musical education consisted of piano and composition studies. He also had experience as a choral conductor in Switzerland, where he studied, and then in Warsaw, with which he tied his life. This influenced his compositional interests – in addition to founding the famous Warsaw Singing Society 'Lutnia', he conducted many choral ensembles, arranging and composing songs for them. His passion for vocalism was also expressed in an impressive collection of nearly 120 pieces for voice and piano, of which a representative selection is featured on this album.

    These are songs to words by poets from different eras, very diverse in terms of style. Maszynski reached for Polish poetry, including poems by Adam Mickiewicz as well as by his contemporaries, such as Leopold Staff, Wladyslaw Nawrocki or Artur Oppman. His compositions also included poems by somewhat eccentric Polish Romanticist Karol Brzozowski and Maria Konopnicka's work, written in a simple language, sometimes imitating the characteristics of a folk song, as well as a symbolic and somewhat mysterious poem by Maurycy Meaterlinck. Most of these pieces share nature-related themes, and the music of Maszynski, following the emotions of the text, perfectly reflects the admiration for the beauty of the world. The vocal part is performed by Lilianna Zalesinska, mezzo-soprano, a world-renowned artist, scholarship holder of many foundations and winner of prestigious awards; the piano part is interpreted by Joanna Pszczolkowska Pawlik, pianist and chamber musician as well as art manager and organiser of musical life, especially linked to the output of Stanislaw Moniuszko.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Pristine Birches Op. 61
      • 2. Two Songs op. 68 I. The Aspen
      • 3. Two Songs op. 68 II. To the Violet
      • 4. I Shed Clear, Copious Tears Op. 59
      • 5. Renegade. Ballad Op. 18
      • 6. The Bagpiper's Song Op. 20
      • 7. Three Songs op. 48 I. To the Spring
      • 8. Three Songs op. 48 II. The One With a Golden Key
      • 9. Three Songs op. 48 III. Heart's Vegetation
      • 10. Field Bells op. 41 I. Field Bells
      • 11. Field Bells op. 41 II. The Orphan Housemaid
      • 12. Field Bells op. 41 III. Oh Soil
      • 13. Field Bells op. 41 IV. Folk Tune
      • 14. Field Bells op. 41 V. Linden in Bloom
      • 15. Field Bells op. 41 VI. Flowers and Kids
      • 16. The One Moment
      • 17. From Spring Stanzas
      • 18. Dunajec River Op. 26
      • 19. Three Songs op. 58 I. Sorrowful Chords
      • 20. Three Songs op. 58 II. On a Clear Night
      • 21. Three Songs op. 58 III. A Memory
      • 22. Through the Layering of Clouds op. 51 no. 2

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