Bartok, Janacek, Szyma... - Piotr Anderszewski - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

“The works on this album are imbued with a sense of rebellion,” says Piotr Anderszewski. “There is no place here for stylisation or decorum. They plumb the very roots of music.”

A native of Warsaw, Anderszewski juxtaposes pieces for solo piano by three Central European composers of the earlier 20th century, each asserting his country’s musical identity: Janáček in Moravia (absorbed into Czechoslovakia in 1918), Szymanowski in Poland, and Bartók in Hungary. Folk music is a determining influence in the programme – the second book of Janáček’s On an overgrown path (named after a traditional wedding song), six of Szymanowski’s 20 mazurkas, and Bartók’s 14 Bagatelles. Szymanowski’s eclecticism colours his mazurkas, composed during Poland’s halcyon inter-war period of autonomy. Often chromatically adventurous, they fuse the traditional mazurka and the spirit of Chopin with musical elements from Poland’s southern highlands. Piotr Anderszewski speaks of “primitive incantations, simultaneously ecstatic and severe in their beauty”.

Tracklist

1. Leos Janacek: On an Overgrown Path, Book Ii
2. Leos Janacek: On an Overgrown Path, Book Ii
3. Leos Janacek: On an Overgrown Path, Book Ii
4. Leos Janacek: On an Overgrown Path, Book Ii
5. Leos Janacek: On an Overgrown Path, Book Ii
6. Karol Szymanowski: 20 Mazurkas Op. 50: M56
7. Karol Szymanowski: 20 Mazurkas Op. 50: M56
8. Karol Szymanowski: 20 Mazurkas Op. 50: M56
9. Karol Szymanowski: 20 Mazurkas Op. 50: M56
10. Karol Szymanowski: 20 Mazurkas Op. 50: M56
11. Karol Szymanowski: 20 Mazurkas Op. 50: M56
12. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
13. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
14. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
15. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
16. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
17. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
18. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
19. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
20. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
21. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
22. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
23. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
24. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38
25. Bela Bartok: 14 Bagatelles Op.6 Sz.38

Label: Plg Uk Catalog | Origin: Holland