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Leszek Dlugosz: Music of the Days Gone By
Leszek Długosz, Mariusz Pędziałek, Wiesław Dziedziński, Jacek Królik, Joanna Freszel (soprano), Renata Żełobowska-Orzechowska, The Leszek Długosz Band, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Jurek Dybał
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Penderecki: Theatre and Film Music
Annika MIkołajko-Osman (soprano), Jacek Wróbel (baritone), Polish Radio Choir, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Cracow Singers, Maciej Tworek
This is a generous treasure trove that dusts off some of the late Polish composer’s more obscure early pieces. —
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Bacewicz & Tansman: Piano Quintets
Julia Kociuban (piano), Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera (violin), Oriana Masternak (violin), Maria Shetty (viola), Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska (cello), Messages Quartet
This is the second excellent recording of Bacewicz’s Piano Quintets to emerge in the past few years. The 1952 Quintet No. 1 is full of f lair, while the 1965 Quintet No. 2 finds the Polish composer... —
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Krzysztof Baculewski: Solo & Chamber Works for Flute
Łukasz Długosz (flute), Carlos Roberto Peña Montoya (harp), Agata Galik (harp), Jędrzej Kacprzyk (contrabass), Piotr Nowicki (piano)
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Karlowicz: Symphonic Poems; Chopin: Allegro de Concert
Konrad Binienda (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzegorz Nowak
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. —
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