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Polish composer
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- Russian Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- pianist, composer
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2021-10-21 07:36:33
Felix Yaniewicz: two recitals celebrating the new Edinburgh home for his square piano
The Yaniewicz and Green square piano which features in the recitals Earlier this year I wrote about an 1810 square piano [see my article] which bore the label Yaniewicz & Green, relating to the Polish-Lithuanian violin virtuoso and composer, Felix Yaniewicz who founded the first Edinburgh Festival in 1815. Now restored and bought by the Friends of Felix Yaniewicz, the piano has arrived in Edinburgh and there are two celebratory concerts planned, both at the Polish Ex-Combatants House, 11 Drummond Place, Edinburgh EH3 6PJ.On 12 November 2021, Steven Devine plays pieces by Yaniewicz alongside contemporary composers with whom he was associated in different ways over the course of his career, Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Dussek and Beethoven. And on 14 November 2021, Pawel Siwczak will perform Polish piano music of the 18th and early 19th century by Yaniewicz, Szymanowska, Lessel, Oginski and Chopin, many of whom were writing in exile, in Polonaise and Mazurka dance forms […]
2020-12-24 09:33:08
Promoting Polish music: the second edition of the Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music
[…] those written by 56 Polish composers mostly active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with music by famous composers such as Chopin, Paderewski, Górecki or Penderecki, and also less well-known names such as Antoni Kątski, Eugeniusz Pankiewicz and Stefan Kisielewski, including Polish female composers Maria Szymanowska and Grażyna Bacewicz. (the full list is available on the competition website). So that piano finalists must choose to include a concerto by Grażyna Bacewicz, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Franciszek Lessel, Józef Władysław Krogulski , Artur Malawski, Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ludomir Różycki , Józef Wieniawski or Władysław Żeleński. The competition will be recorded and these recordings distributed worldwide; in this way, the organisers hope to be releasing a number of world premiere recordings. There are no age or nationality limits for the competition. There are prizes for the winners of the piano and the chamber ensemble categories, as well as a number […]
2018-09-30 23:00:00
Lessel: Piano Works (Cybulska-Amsler)
Franciszek Lessel (1780-1837)Fantasie C-Dur op. 8Variationen in a-moll op. 15 Nr. 1Sonate für Klavier F-Dur op. 2 Nr. 2Sonate für Klavier A-Dur op. 2 Nr. 3Fantasie e-moll op. 13Dorota Cybulska-Amsler, FortepianoDux 1173 (2015) [Flac & Scans]
2015-04-07 09:00:00
[…] Suites for Keyboard: Keith Jarrett (Piano) 9/11/14 Rachmaninov #2 +1CD Concertos Nos. 1 & 2: Zimerman & Ozawa with the BSO 9/10/14 Poulenc Tribute +1CD Les Animaux modèles & Sinfonietta, Darlington and the Luxembourg Philh. 9/10/14 Summer Nights #8 +11 original CDs of Brahms Symphonies by C. Davis, Sawallisch, Giulini, Dohnanyi and Chailly 9/2/14 Mozart: The Nannerl's Notebook Added new links 9/2/14 Summer Nights #5 Berlioz Nuits d'Eté, Norman & C. Davis (1979) 9/1/14 Lessel: Fortepiano Concertos Added new links + Bonus Disc 9/1/14 La Chasse: Mozart, Vogler, Haydn, Endler Added new links 9/1/14 Alla Turca: Music by Mozart, Gluck & M. Haydn Added new links 8/11/14 String Quartets by Vanhal, Wranitzky & Jadin Added new links (Old links were missing tracks, cue, logs etc) 7/23/14 Handel: Tolomeo Added new links 7/20/14 Mozart: Piano Quartets Added new links 7/19/14 Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Paris version, 1841) Added […]
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