Release Date: 22 March 2024
Label: Chopin University Press
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5906874951637
Description
This album presents a musical dialogue between early keyboard music and contemporary works. I invited composers associated with the Chopin University of Music to write pieces inspired by 16th- and 17th-century works. The composers are: Magdalena Bialecka, Tomasz Soczek, Piotr Tabakiernik, and Aldona Nawrocka. Each of them composed one piece.
For the recording, I chose Vienna's oldest organ; the 1642 Wockherl organ in the Church of St Jerome (Franziskanerkirche). The instrument is tuned in meantone temperament and is provided with a short octave and - most interestingly - split sharps for enharmonic tones, the so-called Subsemitonien, which incidentally turned out to be an additional source of creative ideas. Thanks to the Renaissance and Baroque reminiscences manifested in the commissioned contemporary compositions, this recording is a unique artistic experiment that allowed us to show the sound variety of the 1642 Wockherl organ.
- Bartosz Jakubczak (excerpt from booklet notes)
Tracklisting
Maria Gabrys-Heyke
Monika Quinn
Martyna Pastuszka (violin), Tomasz Pokrzywinski (cello)
Meccore String Quartet
Bartosz Jakubczak, organ
Elzbieta Karas-Krasztel
Alexandre Tansman String Quartet
Alina Ratkowska, Pawel Gusnar
Pawel Gusnar (saxophone), Klaudiusz Baran (accordion), Bartosz Jakubczak (organ), Rafal Grzaka (bandoneon), Chopin University Chamber Orchestra, Rafal Janiak
