Mirecki - Wieniawski - Dux: DUX1901 - CD or download

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Franciszek Mirecki’s (1791-1862) operatic background informs his symphony’s forthright phrasing. There’s also plenty of skittering Mendelssohnian energ y, making for a satisf ying Romantic symphony. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Apr 2023
Catalogue No: DUX1901
Label: Dux
Length: 66 minutes

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Mirecki: Symphony in C minor

Work length33:43

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Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra
Paweł Przytocki

Allegro vivace con brio

Track length10:48

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Adagio non tanto

Track length8:18

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Scherzo. Vivo assai

Track length5:37

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Ultimo tempo. Vivace molto

Track length9:00

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Wieniawski, J: Symphony in D major, Op. 49

Work length32:30

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Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra
Paweł Przytocki

Symphony in D major, Op. 49: Allegro con spirito, un poco pastorale

Track length11:01

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Andante molto cantabile

Track length8:34

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Scherzo

Track length5:00

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Finale. Allegro energico e risoluto

Track length7:55

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This new release from DUX presents two 19th-century symphonies of two Polish composers belonging to two different generations, so far almost unknown.

The Symphony in C Minor by Mirecki was his only symphonic work. It was preserved in a manuscript copy of the Main Library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, was released by the Polish Music Publishing House in 1972, but with a commentary suggesting that it had little value.

In the 19th century, there were few composers who were successful both in symphony and stage genres. Mirecki's Symphony shows some features of the operatic style, but it is not a flaw. It is a large-scale work, with great proportions, based on the technique of developing the material, densely, but with knowledge of instrumentation, strongly emotional, full of passion, yet not sentimental, but factual.

Mirecki's Symphony opens the era of 'classicizing romanticism' in Polish music and fits into the aesthetics of the European symphony of the second half of the 19th century, which combined the expressive and technical discoveries of romanticism with the Beethovenesque discipline and the tendency to monumentality. Its relationships with later works of outstanding symphonists prove that the piece belongs to the main lineage of the symphony in the 19th century.

Jozef Wieniawski belonged to the generation of Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saens, Max Bruch, Mily Balakirev, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Antonn Dvorak. His Symphony in D Major, Op. 49, published in 1890 in Brussels, is one of his last works. As for now, we do not have any information about its performances.

The style of Wieniawski's Symphony corresponds to the period and the place in which it was created. It is close to the Paris of the end of the 19th century, but it is the Paris of Cesar Franck and Ernest Chausson, not of Claude Debussy. It is a poetic work, capable of evoking images, next to which Mirecki's Symphony in C Minor, created forty years earlier, seems to be an almost abstract source of pure energy.

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July 2023

Franciszek Mirecki’s (1791-1862) operatic background informs his symphony’s forthright phrasing. There’s also plenty of skittering Mendelssohnian energ y, making for a satisf ying Romantic symphony.

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