Content:

Grazyna Bacewicz

Piano Works



Artists:
Peter Jablonski, piano

Genres:
Instrumental

Features:

Sleeve notes in English

Format:
CD

Released:
February 2022

Catalogue No.:
ODE 1399-2

EAN/UPC Code:
0761195139929

Track listing

CD 71:24
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
1 Concert Krakowiak (1949) 6:41
Ten Concert Etudes (1956–57) 22:48
2 Etude No. 1: Allegro non troppo 2:35
3 Etude No. 2: Vivace 1:42
4 Etude No. 3: Allegro 2:34
5 Etude No. 4 1:35
6 Etude No. 5: Andante 3:25
7 Etude No. 6 2:06
8 Etude No. 7: Giocoso 1:59
9 Etude No. 8 3:22
10 Etude No. 9: Presto 1:36
11 Etude No. 10: Allegro 1:54
Two Etudes on Double Notes (1955) 6:09
12 Moderato 3:21
13 Vivace 2:48
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1949) 18:10
14 I. Moderato 5:43
15 II. Andante sostenuto 4:28
16 III. Scherzo 3:12
17 IV. Finale: Molto allegro 4:47
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1953) 17:29
18 I. Maestoso. Agitato 6:47
19 II. Largo 7:06
20 III. Toccata: Vivo 3:36



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Complete description

This album is pianist Peter Jablonski’s third solo album for the Ondine label. With this album Jablonski represents Grazyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) dazzling piano etudes and piano sonatas which are hardly known outside of her native Poland. Jablonski’s piano albums have received an enthusiastic response and his previous album release received Editor’s Choice from the Gramophone magazine.

 

In recent years the music of Grazyna Bacewicz has been enjoying an ever-increasing popularity in concert hall programmes. Bacewicz was a major Polish composer and a versatile musician: a child prodigy violinist, she was also an accomplished pianist. As a composer, she is known for her inventive, complex, and original musical language, and particularly many of her works for violin are well known. Bacewicz studied first at the Warsaw Conservatory and briefly continued her studies in Paris before returning back home. In 1934, she received a position of concertmaster at the Polish Radio Orchestra. This position proved invaluable to her as a composer, giving her insights into each instrument’s possibilities and orchestral composition. Her music displays many characteristic traits of the twentieth-century that are to be heard in the writings of Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók, and Lutosławski, among others. Jablonski’s piano album covers only eight short years during which the works presented here were composed and brings together, for the first time, both piano sonatas, and both sets of etudes. Sonata No. 1 for solo piano was composed in 1949 but waited over seventy years until Peter Jablonski edited it for PWM for publication.

 

This album was co-organised together with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural programme marking the centenary of Poland’s regained independence. Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022.

 

 

Peter Jablonski is an internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Claudio Abbado and Vladimir Ashkenazy and signed by Decca at the age of 17, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with over 150 of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including  the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus,  Mariinsky, La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name a few. He has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. Hailed as an ‘unconventional virtuoso’, during his three-decade-long career he developed a diverse and worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt. Jablonski’s extensive discography includes several award-winning recordings.

 

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The recording is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022

 

Adam Mickiewicz Institute:

https://iam.pl/en