Philip Thomson - Complete Piano Music 3 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Polish composer Alfons Szczerbinski was born at a time of upheaval in Europe during the second half of the 19th century. A prominent Polish talent in the Romantic mold, Szczerbinski was profoundly influenced by the harmonic models of Bach, Haydn and Mozart. His surviving music is mostly written for the piano but many of his compositions were either lost during the First World War or destroyed by the composer himself. Heard here in their world première recordings, the Chansons sans paroles are Romantic miniatures that possess rich melodic elegance and marvelous phrasal beauty, sometimes redolent of Mendelssohn, Chopin or Liszt. Album Tracks 1. * 4 Chansons Sans Paroles, Op. 3 2. No. 1. Allegro 3. No. 2. Andante Con Espressione 4. No. 3. Andante Con Moto 5. No. 4. Con Moto 6. * 2 Chansons Sans Paroles, Op. 5 7. No. 1. Allegro Con Fuoco 8. No. 2. Con Moto 9. * 4 Chansons Sans Paroles, Op. 12 10. No. 1. Con Moto 11. No. 2. Moderato 12. No. 3. Andante Con Moto 13. No. 4. Allegro 14. * 4 Chansons Sans Paroles, Op. 14 15. No. 1. Andante Con Moto 16. No. 2. Andante Cantabile 17. No. 3. Andante Con Moto 18. No. 4. Moderato 19. Chanson Sans Paroles, Op. 36 20. Chanson Sans Paroles in D minor 21. Andante Cantabile 22. * 3 Valses, Op. 17 23. Valse No. 1 24. Valse No. 2 25. Valse No. 3 26. Mazurka

Sophomore album from this Indianapolis-based duo; shoegaze-meets-noise pop comparing to Joy Division, Sonic Youth and the Strokes. Album Tracks 1. You Whir 2. To Begin 3. Geist 4. Intentions 5. Filed Down 6. Ever So 7. His Head Was Warm 8. Dots and Lines 9. Decoder 10. Brute

Janusz Wawrowski's album Phoenix pairs two life-affirming violin concertos written during difficult periods in their composers' lives Tchaikovsky was recovering from his disastrous marriage and Ludomir Rózycki was enduring the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Wawrowski spent several years reconstructing Rózycki's concerto from long-lost fragments. InchThis wonderful work spoke to me immediately... Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, it should be reborn and enjoyed by audiences around the world. To me, the concerto is full of the energy and life of Warsaw before the war, and I think Rózycki was trying to conjure up this positive energy as he wrote it in 1944... It reminds me of Gershwin or Korngold, yet retaining at the same time a distinct Slavic flavour.Inch Wawrowski is joined for this recording by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and it's Polish-born Permanent Associate Conductor, Grzegorz Nowak. Album Tracks 1. Violin Concerto, Op. 70 I. Andante 2. Violin Concerto, Op. 70 II. Allegro Deciso 3. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 I. Allegro Moderato 4. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 II. Canzonetta. Andante 5. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 III. Finale. Allegro Vivacissimo