Chopin / Ksiazek - Krzysztof Ksiazek Plays Chopin Piano Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The present is a Chopin recital from renowned pianist Maria Korecka Soszkowska. Maria studied under well-known teachers such as Prof. Henryk Sztompka in Poland and Prof. Dieter Weber in Austria. She has won domestic and international competitions and festivals, among which include the National Competition of Mozart's Music in Katowice, IJ. Paderewski National Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, and others. She began her concert activities in 1962 and from then on she has performed with many philharmonic orchestras in Poland and abroad. Maria has participated in numerous festivals such as Brno, Marianska Lazne, Czech Republic, Ghent, Belgium, and more.

The pianist Marek Kozák is a student at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Prague Academy of Performing Arts in the class of Prof. Ivan Klánský. In February 2018 he won the European Piano Competition in Bremen. To his other achievements belong winning second place in the Prague Spring Competition 2016, where he was praised for his performance of the work Kejklír (Jongleur) by the contemporary Czech composer Adam Skoumal- you can listen to that work on this recording. Other composers on this recording come from the Romantic era - Céar Franck, Fryderyk Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The last covered composer is classicistic Joseph Haydn with his Sonata in E Major.

In Chopin Late piano works, Edoardo Torbianelli matches once again the poetry of his pianism with the rigor of his scholarly investigations into the music he plays. Together with the booklet essay-writer, Jeanne Roudet, Torbianelli has considered afresh the music written by Frédéric Chopin in the last fifteen years of the Polish composer's life. To follow on from his collection, Torbianelli has recorded at Fondation Royaumont in France - playing on an 1842 Ignace Pleyel grand piano - Chopin's A flat Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op 61, the B minor Sonata Op. 58 and a selection of Mazurkas and Nocturnes for this new Schola Cantorum Basiliensis presented by Glossa. With this programme Edoardo Torbianelli is situating the compositional approach more directly within Chopin's Polish heritage; though he later went into exile the composer was present in Warsaw until just before the November Uprising in 1830. Unlike Berlioz and Liszt, it is argued, Chopin eschewed literature as direct inspiration and - again unlike Liszt - the Polish composer's piano music shares similarities in technique and performative style with the bel canto school of singing, the descendant of the art of eighteenth-century castrati and perpetuated in the 1800s by Italian singers as heard by Chopin himself in Paris. The resulting InchvocalityInch of Chopin's piano music finds echo in Edoardo Torbianelli's interpretations for a recording which can be considered both for it's fresh approach but also as a masterly reflection of the composer's genius.