Marek Mizera - Polish Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The repertoire of Marek Mizera's Chopin album can be considered both comprehensive and cross-sectional. Each of the works recorded on the album requires from the pianist a completely autonomous approach to such issues as formal structure, building drama, melody, or the use of tempo rubato. Marek MIZERA was born in Bielsko-Biala where he finished a music school in the piano class of Maria Kubica-Skarbowska. He went on to graduate from the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, where he studied with Professor Kazimierz Gierzod. He has worked closely with renowned teachers at home and abroad, including Józef Stompel, Jerzy Godziszewski, Lazar Berman, and Peter Feuchtwanger. Upon graduation, he has developed a concert career, appearing in his own country as well as abroad. Foreign tours have taken him to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Angola, and Cuba. He has released a number of recordings for the DUX recording tag. He has also pursued a teaching career for many years, currently as a Professor at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce

Marek Szlezer, who is well known to the Polish audience, is highly appreciated for his interpretations of Fryderyk Chopin's works. In 2015, on the occasion of the composer's 205th birthday, he performed at the famous Carnegie Hall in New York. On a number of occasions, he has also been nominated for the most important music award in Poland, Fryderyk. In 2021, the pianist from Cracow expands his discography with another album with piano works by Karol Szymanowski. The nearly 80-minute covers pieces written over ten years (1924-1934), although belonging to different periods in Szymanowski's output.

The majority of works on this recording can be described as juvenile pieces, while in his later output the piano appears mainly in chamber music (in trios, quartets, quintets and duets with violin, cello, saxophone and bassoon). His output is completed with the following pieces 24 Preludes for piano (1977-78), Impromptu multicolore for 2 pianos (2000) and the Piano Concerto (1989).