Skrowaczewski: Chamber Works

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The performances are never less than committed and sympathetic. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023

Release Date: 5th May 2023
Catalogue No: DUX1917-18
Label: Dux
Length: 83 minutes

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Skrowaczewski: Musica a quattro

Work length25:37

Andrzej Cieplinski, Jakub Jakowicz, Alicja Bator, Piotr Hausenplas

I. Esitante, rapsodico

Track length7:47

II. Presto

Track length4:15

III. Cadenze capricciose

Track length7:10

IV. Presto tenebroso

Track length2:25

V. Adagio

Track length4:00

Skrowaczewski: Fantasie per Sei

Work length18:50

Arkadiusz Krupa, Alicja Bator, Jakub Jakowicz, Maciej Kulakowski, Marek Romanowski, Aleksandra Świgut

Introduction. Adagio – Allegro – Adagio

Track length10:51

Presto

Track length7:59

Skrowaczewski: Fantasie per Quattro

Work length24:39

Marcel Markowski, Jakub Jakowicz, Andrzej Cieplinski, Lukasz Chrzeszczyk

Presto

Track length1:10

Largo

Track length1:25

Subito allegro

Track length1:44

Vivace

Track length1:07

Crotchet = c. 116

Track length3:14

Adagio

Track length2:21

L’istesso tempo

Track length2:15

(L’istesso tempo)

Track length5:40

Agitato

Track length2:07

Drammatico

Track length2:28

Finale

Track length1:08

Skrowaczewski: Fantasie per Tre

Work length13:54

Grażyna Zbijowska, Jakub Jakowicz, Maciej Kulakowski

Misterioso – Capriccioso

Track length0:40

Pavana

Track length0:39

Allucinante

Track length1:29

Lento doloroso

Track length2:20

Amoroso

Track length4:52

Finale. Fugaccio gioioso

Track length3:54

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This new CD from DUX presents works by Polish-American composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1923?2017). Skrowaczewski (1923?2017) is known primarily for his work as an outstanding conductor. While his compositional output has been acknowledged in the USA, where he spent a large part of his extremely creative and fruitful life, it is not widely known through Europe and Poland, his home country. DUX is delighted to bring their audience closer to Skrowaczewski's compositions created in the last two decades of the 20th century.

The works presented here share a similar style marked by artistic explorations in the field of sonoristics, which were facilitated by the ensembles for which the compositions were created ? they expose the sonic qualities of woodwind instruments, piano and strings. Using tone colours and generating agogic contrasts is a characteristic feature of Skrowaczewski's compositional technique.

Artists featured on this recording: Andrzej Cieplinski (clarinet), Jakub Jakowicz (violin), Alicja Bator (viola), Piotr Hausenplas (cello), Arkadiusz Krupa (oboe), Maciej Kulakowski (cello), Marek Romanowski (double bass), Aleksandra Swigut (piano), Marcel Markowski (cello), Lukasz Chrzeszczyk (piano), Grazyna Zbijowska (flute), Jakub Jackowski (oboe).

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August 2023

The performances are never less than committed and sympathetic.

Skrowaczewski: Chamber Works

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