Various Artists - Music from Seamus 3 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ludomir Michal Rogowski (born on 3 October 1881 in Lublin, died on 13 March 1954 in Dubrovnik) a composer, conductor, and theoretician, throughout his life he was under a great influence of the work by Fryderyk Chopin. By actively participating in the scientific work of the musical community (among others, in 1910 he took part in the First Congress of Polish Composers in Lviv, as part of the second section -Pedagogy and Performance), Rogowski would develop concepts regarding the nature of Polish musical works, whose framework was a postulate for creation of a separate style of Polish music, not subject to external inspirations. This album from Urszula Swierczynska with Dominika Szlezynger, devoted entirely to Rogowski's works, reveals to us another, forgotten page from the history of the Polish music of the first half of the 20th century.

Roman Simovic, PAGANINI 24 CAPRICES - For his debut solo album, the Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra showcases his virtuosity and innate musicality, navigating the technical and artistic challenges of Paganini's 24 Caprices for solo violin. Staples of the violinist's impressive repertoire, as a budding musician Simovic would practice these works daily in place of scales, and has gone on to delight audiences with performances across the globe. While Paganini's Caprices were intended to improve and strengthen technique, they are more commonly used to determine the wheat from the chaff, their demanding, high speed passages pushing players to their limits. With it's fast scales and arpeggios, double and triple stops, and left-hand pizzicato, the final caprice is widely considered one of the most technically challenging violin pieces ever written.

SEAMUS is a non-profit national organization of composers, performers, and teachers of electro-acoustic music. Electro-acoustic music is a term used to describe those musics which are dependent on electronic technology for their creation and/or performance. SEAMUS strives to address not only relevant technology but also the non-technical issues of aesthetics, collaboration, education, and ethical/social issues pertinent to the electro-acoustic music community. Through it's journal, newsletter, recordings, national meetings, and it's national archive at the University of Texas at Austin, SEAMUS seeks to increase communication among the diverse constituency of this relatively new musical medium. The of the back catalog from the Music from SEAMUS series continues here with Volume 2, originally released in 1993. Electro-acoustic works by composers Scott Wyatt, Jeffrey Haas, Barry Schrader, Cort Lippe, Charles Norman Mason, George Todd, and James Mobberley are featured.