Tadaaki Otaka - Symphony 4 & 8 in E Flat Major - 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.

Tadaaki Otaka - Symphony 8 & 9 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/29/2008

This album is of high personal significance for us. The works presented here were written especially for our duet by an outstanding Polish composer. Each of these pieces has a history of it's own and brings back various memories. Most of all, it presents a fascinating world of sounds that we would like you to experience. Marcin Blazewicz's compositions are saturated with unusual emotionality, sometimes with drama. Of particular significance to the composer's style is expressiveness and tonal tensions, as is clearly heard in the Double Concerto for Violin, Accordion and Symphony Orchestra and in the Sonata for Violin and Accordion subtitled 'Night Full of Sins'. This album is also special because it is the first one with Marcin Blazewicz's compositions released a few months after his death. At the same time, it is an album that the composer personally worked on, together with us. We believe it is a real honor that such a great composer entrusted us with the performance of his works. We are grateful for the opportunity to learn from him during our conversations and joint work on the scores of the pieces that were personally dedicated to us. With this album, we want to commemorate this great man and our musical friend, who died suddenly and prematurely. We wish to present some of the last works by this extraordinary composer, whose greatest desire, as he often emphasized, was to reach out to listeners and move them with his music. (Karolina Mikolajczyk, Iwo Jedynecki)