Sebastian Adamczyk - In Paradisum / Passion Meditations - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Since the 1960s the Danish composer and musician Anders Koppel, born in 1947, has being developing his musical creativity in every conceivable way, ranging from jazz, rock, Balkan music to chamber works, ballet music, film music and more than 40 solo concertos for every conceivable instrument. He was born into a musical family as a son of the pianist and composer Herman D. Koppel (1908-1998), one of the leading figures in Danish music in the 20th century. All Herman D. Koppel's four children became prominent musicians, and in the two following generations great new talents have still been emerging from the artistic Koppel family. Anders Koppel has with considerable energy preserved the luxuriance which was in the air, when in the 1960s he began to unfurl his life as a musician. Since the 1990s he has worked not least on compositions in classical forms, but without giving up his many concerts improvising music of all kinds played on his particularly favorite instrument, a Hammond B3 organ. Koppel's imagination and fecundity of ideas give his music a character of joie de vivre, curiosity and playfulness. Combined with his profound experience with written-down music it gives a wonderful sparkle to his works in classical forms which are unmistakably founded on the improviser's sharp ears for fertile ideas and the ability to create gripping music.

Poniatowski's music became lost in the mists of history. It is good, therefore, that nowadays it has become the subject of research by the musicologists Irena Poniatowska and Ryszard Daniel Golianek as well as an object of interest for performers. It is good that artists take it up in their interpretations and bring it back to the listeners. Words of gratitude are due both to the Polish Music Association for presenting Poniatowski's works during the Festival of Polish Music in Krakow and to the organizers of the English premiere of Mass in F Major at Westminster in London in 2015 led by Dr. Marek Stella-Sawicki. Prince Poniatowski was born in Rome in 1816 and in 2016 we celebrated the 200th anniversary of his birth. InchOn the eveInch of this symbolic occasion, his Mass in F Major received, thanks to Maciej Jablonski and Sebastian Perlowski, a new symphonic life.

Album Tracks 1. Entry Into the Cathedral, Op. 8, No. 3 2. Elévation 3. Fuga 4. Roses of St. Therese, Op. 9, No. 3 5. Offertory, Op. 7, No. 2 6. Prelude on the Theme of Kyrie from Mass XI (Orbis Factor), Op. 9, No. 3 7. Preludio 8. Choral - Plainchant 9. Introduzione E Variazione 10. Adoremus, Op. 31, No. 3