Polish Music

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Music of Alexandre Tansman
Note-- Although he lived a great deal of his life in France, according to the Wiki bio I have reproduced in the download discussions folder, he considered himself Polish- hence, I have him in the Polish folder.

1. Stele- In Memoriam I Stravinsky
Orchestre Nationale, M. Seizan
Radio Broadcast   Jan, 24, 1973

2.  Sinfonietta Nr. 2
Nouvel Orch. Phil. Radio France
V. Karanjiev
Radio Broadcast, October 12, 1981

3-8.  Alexandre Tansman: Suite Baroque
New York Philharmonic
Vladimir Golschmann, conductor
Radio Broadcast 23 February, 1961

From the collection of Karl Miller
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nqcdcyh3r3v9rfp

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Artur Malawski: Tryptuk Goralski (1949-1950)
(Translation: Moutaineer’s or Highlands Triptych)

Orchestration  of piano version with radio intro and outro 
Polish RN Symphony Orchestra
Maciej Zoltowski, conductor
11 November 2005

From the collection of Karl Miller

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8kxaob79o2demj9

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Koscielec 1909 by Wojciech Kilar
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor

Radio broadcast, date unknown

From the collection of Karl Miller

LINK UPDATED
http://www.mediafire.com/?0iuh1t9zzg1068q

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Stanisław Skrowaczewski Symphony for Strings

St Pauls Chamber Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor.
Date Unknown


From the collection of.Karl Miller

Link http://www.mediafire.com/?sa4cy9hp24g6rct

I'm filing this one under Polish, although he lived much of his later life in the US.  Feel free to move this if appropriate.

Wikepedia:
Stanisław Skrowaczewski (pronounced [staˌniswav skrɔvaˈtʃɛfskʲi]; born October 3, 1923) is an internationally known classical conductor and composer. He was born in Lvov (then in Poland, now in Ukraine) and became best known for his work with the Minnesota Orchestra.
As a child, he studied piano and violin; displaying talent on the piano at an early age, he made his public debut playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. Unfortunately, a hand injury ended his piano career.

After World War II, Skrowaczewski became the music director of the Wrocław Philharmonic, then the Katowice Philharmonic, the Kraków Philharmonic and finally the Warsaw National Orchestra. He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1956 he won the Santa Cecilia Competition for Conductors.

At the invitation of George Szell, Skrowaczewski conducted the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1960 he was appointed music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (later renamed the Minnesota Orchestra under his tenure in 1968), a position he held until 1979 when he became conductor laureate. In 1981 the American Composers' Forum commissioned the Clarinet Concerto, which Skrowaczewski wrote for Minnesota Orchestra principal clarinetist Joe Longo, who premiered it in 1981.

Between 1983 and 1992 he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.

Between 1995 and 1997, Skrowaczewski served as artistic advisor to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. From 1984 to 1991, he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, and in 1988, was composer-in-residence for the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer season at Saratoga. He has guest-conducted that orchestra, and many others, all over the world.

His complete set of recordings of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, made with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, has received much acclaim, as has his 2005-06 complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the orchestra. Another noted recording is his Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with soloist Gina Bachauer.

Skrowaczewski's Passacaglia Immaginaria, completed in 1995, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestral Association to honor the memory of Ken and Judy Dayton, it was premiered at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis in 1996.
The Chamber Concerto was commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in memory of Leopold Sipe, their first music director. The Concerto for Orchestra received a Pulitzer nomination in 1999.

He received the Commander Order of the White Eagle, the highest order conferred by the Polish government, as well as the Gold Medal of the Mahler-Bruckner Society, the 1973 Ditson Conductor's Award, and the 1976 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.

He is the father of Paul Sebastien, founder of electronica groups Psykosonik and Basic Pleasure Model.

Dr. Frederick Harris Jr., director of the MIT Wind Ensemble, has written the official biography of Skrowaczewski. [1]


From the  USC Polish Music Center:
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, born on 3 October 1923 in Lwów (now: Lviv, Ukraine), studied piano, conducting and composition at the Lwów Music Academy and at the Cracow Conservatory. In 1946 he took over as conductor the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later he won the Szymanowski Composition Prize and went to Paris where he completed his studies under Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Honegger and Paul Kletzki. He returned to Poland in 1949 and was appointed conductor of the Katowice State Philharmonic Orchestra (until 1954). From 1955 to 1957 he was principal conductor of the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1956 he won first prize in the International Conductors' Competition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. As a result of this success, he was appointed one of the leading conductors of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Skrowaczewski left Poland in 1960 and took over from Antal Dorati at the head of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (which later became the Minnesota Orchestra). He retained this position until 1979 when he resigned in order to concentrate on being a guest conductor and on composing. He took up a permanent position again from 1984 to 1991 as principal conductor of the Orchestra in Manchester. In 1987 and 1988 he was also musical director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Minnesota). It is to him that we owe the first public performances of Jacob Druckman's Incenters (1973), and Krzysztof Penderecki's The Dream of Jacob (1974). His compositions include symphonies, instrumental works, chamber and film music, but he prefers not to conduct them himself, serving instead as a champion of new music. In 1998, his recording of Bruckner's Symphony no. 9 (conducting the Minnesota Orchestra) received the Golden Note Award for the best original recording in its category.

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Kazimierz Sikorski  -- 4th Symphony

Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cracow 1971
Jacek Kasprzyk, conductor


From the collection of Karl Miller
Source unidentified, but unable to find a commercial version.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yd1uzhut92ad99t


A little about the Kazmierz: -- pulled from the web

Sikorski studied in Warsaw, first music at the Warsaw Conservatory and then philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He then studied in Lwów, which was Polish at the time, and Paris.[2] In 1926, he became a teacher of composition at the Conservatory of Poznań. From 1927 to 1945, he taught at the Warsaw Conservatory. He was rector of the State Higher School of Music in Łódź. From 1951 to 1966, he taught music theory and composition at the Music Academy Warsaw. During this time, he was president of the Polish Composers' Union. He is the father of the composer, Tomasz Sikorski.[3]

Sikorski composed four symphonies, a symphonic allegro, two overtures (1945, 1954), some instrumental concertos, of which the clarinet concerto (1947) is the most important, a string sextet, three string quartets, choral and film music, including the music for the film Warsaw Premiere (Polish: Warszawska premiera), for which he won a State Award.[2]

I’m curious if there are any works by his son Tomacz floating around—I gather he was type of  minimalist, and I’d like to hear some of his work.

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Witold Szalonek (1927 to 2001) - Little B–A–C–H Symphony for pianoforte and orchestra (1979):

    http://www.mediafire.com/?4naztdtn38hxmc1

From an Australian wireless broadcast of a public concert somewhere in Europe around 2002. Duration twenty-five minutes.

Grove's Dictionary calls Szalonek "the most original exponent of Polish 'sonorism,'", and goes on to inform us that "His significant research into woodwind multiphonics and non-Western music led to a highly individual, haunting vision, where physical properties of sound production became the source and focus of musical structure and expression. His perception-based theories anticipated much of the post-cognitive tendency in musical theory and research of the 1990s."

The problem there is that I cannot find definitions of either "sonorism" or "post-cognitive" anywhere!

I will start a separate thread about the "multiphonics" question.

A list of his compositions (in Polish) may be found HERE.

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On request (finally):

Mikołaj Górecki (* 1971)
Three Episodes for Orchestra (1999)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice / Gabriel Chmura
http://www.mediafire.com/?nm7786r0albjrem

Broadcast recording.

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Also on request:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3826kjcejlj9zzf

Mikołaj Górecki (1971)

Piano Concerto no. 3 "In Classical Style"
A. Suzuki (child or young pianist) - piano
Capella Cracoviensis
cond. Stanisław Gałoński

recorded live from the Warsaw National Philharmony, in March 1999. Concert given in frame of the tour entitled like that "Young Japanese Pianists Plays Piano Concertos for Youth". That was a part of an educational program where modern composers were ordered to write piano concertos for kids and young pianists.

As far as I know most of the pieces were registered and isssued on non-commercial CDs. Each CD consisted two versions of each concerto: 1. only orchestral part and 2. full concerto.

I tried to get these CDs but without success. Have only a copy of one of them. Here you have off concert hall recording done by myself on cassette recorder. There were seven other concertos played during that evening.

My recording of another Mikołaj Górecki's piece - Concerto in Style of Young Chopin is taken from the CD mentioned above.

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ANTONI STOLPE  (1851-1872)
1. Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra (1868)
Andrzej Wróbel, cello


IGNACY FELIKS DOBRZYŃSKI (1807-1867)
2. Fantasy for Trumpet and Orchestra in G major op. 35 (ca. 1839)
Lubomir Jarosz, trumpet


JÓZEF DESZCZYŃSKI (1781-1844)
Piano Concerto in F major op. 25 (18??)
3. I Allegro moderato
4. II Adagio
5. III Rondo. Allegro moderato alla polacca
Edward Wolanin, piano

Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra
Ensemble of Wind Instruments, Warsaw
cond. Agnieszka Duczmal

http://www.mediafire.com/?i60ags0n3n3fc1m

taken live from the concert hall during the 5th Festival of the Polish Chamber Music, Warsaw, 13.10.2007

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Apolinary Szeluto (1884-1966)

Cyrano de Bergerac – Symphonic Poem op. 27 (1933)

Polish Radio Orchestra of Kraków
cond. Antoni Wicherek

http://www.mediafire.com/?4i3ez87zecgl7l1

off radio 19.05.2012

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ALEKSANDER  TANSMAN     (1897-1986)

Twenty Pieces on Polish Themes (1917-24)
 5     Moderato
 6     Allegro marziale
 7     Andantino espressivo
 8     Allegro risoluto   
 9     Allegretto   
10    Moderato             
11    Allegro giusto   
12    Allegro ma non troppo   
13             Andantino grazioso   
14    Mazurka: Lento   
15    Allegretto “Wlazł kotek...”   
16             Moderato   
17    Allegro (Polka)   
18    Allegro ma non troppo (Mazurka)   
19             Allegro (Polka)   
20             Moderato   
21    Vivace (Oberek)   
22             Allegro grazioso   
23             Lento “Umarł Maciek...”   
24    Largo “Boże, coś Polskę...”   

http://www.mediafire.com/?ox1ofjwl6yyap2a

Three Preludes in the Form of Blues     (1937)
26    Lento cantabile
27    Moderato   
28    Moderato

http://www.mediafire.com/?vtuw99u1kj17ipo

30    Tempo Americano   

http://www.mediafire.com/?l132b742k6sw354

32    Obertas from Eight Novellettes      (1936)

http://www.mediafire.com/?fqr29q9qi3qw72c   

all played by Waldemar Malicki, piano


off radio of 90s, recorded on cassette
sound quality rather poor

numbering of tracks according to my own burnt CD

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STANISŁAW  MONIUSZKO  (1819-1872)
Two Daces from the Ballet „Count Monte Christo”  (1866)   
1.  Mazur
2.  Spanish Dance
National Polish Radio SO
cond. Sławek Wróblewski

http://www.mediafire.com/?l318t12wgdb4fhl

FELIKS  RYBICKI  (1899-1978)
 „Wedding” - Overture for Symphony Orchestra
Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw
cond. Ryszard Dudek

http://www.mediafire.com/?yas6g3p8zvlnnx6

off radio recordings, ca. July-August 2005

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WITOLD MALISZEWSKI (1873-1939)

Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major op. 1 (1902)
1. Allegro cantabile
2. Adagio molto
3. Tema con variazioni

Stanisław Kawalla, Violin
Aleksandra Kawalla, Piano

off radio, ca. 08.2005

http://www.mediafire.com/?a9o9sun928pkj4a

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STEFAN  BOLESŁAW  PORADOWSKI   (1902-1967)

Symphony no. 8 op. 71   (1966)
 1.    Andante assai     
 2.    Allegretto scherzando     
 3.    Passacaglia. Adagio         
 4.   Fuga. Allegro assai         
   
Polish Radio SO of Warsaw
cond. Bogusław Madey

http://www.mediafire.com/?6p037ygpdgaiq6a

off radio, March 2006

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TADEUSZ  PACIORKIEWICZ  (1916-1998)
Suite from the Ballet "Legend of Warsaw"   (1959)   
1.     Introduction
2.     Dance of Small Monsters
3.     Parting Dance
4.     War Dance
5.     Interlude
6.     Old-Polish Polka
Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw
cond. Jan Pruszak

http://www.mediafire.com/?wk8lq87v88s3y08
off radio 09.2005