Ignacy Jan Paderewski, piano virtuoso and onetime prime minister of Poland, is known mostly to historical piano enthusiasts today, but in the 1920s he would have been a household name and was even the subject of pop songs. This release by British pianist Jonathan Plowright is not simply an abstract tribute but a full recording of an actual publication titled Homage to Paderewski , issued by the American office of the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes after Paderewski's death in 1941. The program is filled out by other works ...
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski, piano virtuoso and onetime prime minister of Poland, is known mostly to historical piano enthusiasts today, but in the 1920s he would have been a household name and was even the subject of pop songs. This release by British pianist Jonathan Plowright is not simply an abstract tribute but a full recording of an actual publication titled Homage to Paderewski , issued by the American office of the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes after Paderewski's death in 1941. The program is filled out by other works dedicated to Paderewski over the years and by Benjamin Britten's Mazurka elegiaca, Op. 23/2, which was written for the anthology but not included because it is for two pianos. Except for Bartók's Three Hungarian Folk Tunes, Sz66, of 1915, all the works in the Homage were newly commissioned, and they're interesting in two ways: they illuminate Paderewski's legacy, which was involved with Polish nationalism long after such a thing is generally recognized as having been influential...
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