Stanislaw Moniuszko: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

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For me, the real discovery here is the Piano Quintet by Juliusz Zarębski (1854–1885). This I will tell you point blank: Zarębski’s quintet alone is worth the price of the disc and then some.... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2019
Catalogue No: 555124-2
Label: CPO
Length: 66 minutes

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Moniuszko: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major

Work length16:12

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Piotr Pławner (violin), Sibylla Leuenberger (violin), Elżbieta Mrożek-Loska (viola), Isabella Klim (cello)

I. Allegro agitato

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II. Andantio

Track length3:57

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III. Scherzo. Vivo

Track length4:04

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IV. Finale. Un ballo campestre e sue consequenze. Allegro assai

Track length3:12

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Moniuszko: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major

Work length15:12

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Piotr Pławner (violin), Sibylla Leuenberger (violin), Elżbieta Mrożek-Loska (viola), Isabella Klim (cello)

I. Allegro moderato

Track length5:50

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II. Andante

Track length4:43

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III. Scherzo. Baccanale monacale. Allegretto - Trio

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IV. Finale. Allegro

Track length2:33

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Zarebski: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 34

Work length34:55

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Piotr Pławner (violin), Sibylla Leuenberger (violin), Elżbieta Mrożek-Loska (viola), Isabella Klim (cello), Piotr Sałajczyk (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length9:46

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II. Adagio

Track length10:28

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III. Scherzo. Presto

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IV. Finale. Presto

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While the music world is getting ready for next year’s 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, this year’s bicentennial of the birth of the Polish national composer Stanislaw Moniuszko has gone practically unnoticed outside Poland. For this reason, this new recording of his two string quartets is all the more welcome. The composer who would become the celebrated master of the operas Halka and The Haunted Manor wrote these quartets during or shortly after his Berlin study years and in a style continuing to draw on the vocabulary of classical models. At the same time, the twenty-year-old student displays a sense of humor, melodicism, and chamber finesse that not only make for a genuinely rewarding listening experience but also are worth hearing again and again. A “late” creation by Moniuszko’s young fellow Pole Juliusz Zarebski is being presented here together with the quartets. At the end of his life this favorite pupil and confidant of Franz Liszt wrote an absolutely “avant-garde” piano quintet that might have launched a bold and daring oeuvre but ended up serving as a farewell: when this virtuoso pianist and composer delighting in experiment died in 1885, he was a mere thirty-one years old.

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January/February 2020

For me, the real discovery here is the Piano Quintet by Juliusz Zarębski (1854–1885). This I will tell you point blank: Zarębski’s quintet alone is worth the price of the disc and then some. I haven’t the slightest hesitation to label this four-movement, 34-minute, sweeping Romantic score a masterpiece…if chamber music matters to you, Zarębski’s Piano Quintet is a compulsory purchase

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