Karlowicz: Symphonic Poems; Chopin: Allegro de Concert

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These composers make strange bedfellows, but the RPO gives assured accounts of Karłowicz’s Straussian worlds, and Binienda is fleet-fingered in Chopin’s Allegro. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 7th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: DUX1621
Label: Dux
Length: 66 minutes

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Karlowicz: Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie, Op. 12

Work length21:31

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Grzegorz Nowak

Chopin: Allegro de concert, Op. 46 (Orch. K. Binienda)

Work length11:16

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Konrad Binienda (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Grzegorz Nowak

Karlowicz: Smutna opowieść, Op. 13 "Preludja do wieczności"

Work length11:24

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Grzegorz Nowak

Karlowicz: Epizod na maskaradzie, Op. 14

Work length22:28

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Grzegorz Nowak

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This album includes three symphonic poems by one of the greatest Polish symphonic musicians, pianist Konrad Binienda, performed by pianist Konrad Binienda and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Grzegorz Nowak. In addition, the CD features Allegro de concert, Op. 46 by Fryderyk Chopin in Konrad Binienda’s original arrangement. Mieczyslaw Karlowicz is currently most often associated with songs and symphonic poems. Although the musical language of the Polish artist, who died an untimely death, can undoubtedly be considered universal (evidenced by his solo piano compositions, plenty of ingenious harmonic solutions, yet rarely performed now), it was on the basis of the symphony that he mastered his compositional technique.

As the pianist himself points out, his version of the Allegro de Concert, unlike many others, is based solely on the principles of the Chopin orchestration. The recording was made during a concert of the Orchestra in the concert hall of the Lodz Philharmonic.

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May 2020

These composers make strange bedfellows, but the RPO gives assured accounts of Karłowicz’s Straussian worlds, and Binienda is fleet-fingered in Chopin’s Allegro.

Karlowicz: Symphonic Poems; Chopin: Allegro de Concert

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