Lilianna Zalesinska - Songs Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This new from Lilianna Zalesinska and Jolanta Pszczolkowska-Pawlik is a showcase of songs by Polish composer Piotr Maszynski. Mezzosoprano Liliana Zalesinska graduated with distinction from Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. As a chamber musician, she participated in a special program of Udo Reinemann's, dedicated to song interpretation, where she worked with such artists as Peter Schreier, Felicity Lott, Edith Wiens, and Hartmut Holl. She has taken part in the stagings of contemporary works at such stages as the Konzerthaus in Vienna and at the SIMN Festival in Romania, among others. Jolanta Pszczolkowska-Pawlik is a pianist, chamber musician, producer and a culture manager. She is a graduate of F. Chopin Academy of Music in the piano class of Prof. B Hesse-Bukowska and the chamber music class of K. Makowska-Lawrynowicz. As a culture manager, she is president of the Across Music Foundation and the Pawlik Relations Concert Agency.

The undeniable traits of Felicjan Szopski's output are the following folk music and works by Fryderyk Chopin as his sources of inspiration; nurturing national elements while striving to discover new musical means, different musical narratives, and innovative harmonic solutions; attention to every detail of the composition; well-thought-out, consistently implemented ambitious musical thought remaining in a permanent and unbreakable contact with words. Szopski would select his texts with extraordinary reverence, very consistently, only by Polish writers he knew personally. Szopski's musical thought conveys the message and the mood of the words, fully reflecting the character of the text. This selection of his songs are performed by soprano Agnieszka Niewiadomska and pianist Szymon Blaszynski.

Marianna Busching - Songs for Hans Pfitzner Vol. 2 [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/27/2009