The main attraction of this commercially successful release from Warner Classics is a world premiere. One might not have thought much music was being written in Warsaw in 1944 (although, check out Czeslaw Milosz's poem Song on the End of the World from roughly the same time), but composer Ludomir Rózycki was at work on a violin concerto, and as he fled the city, he buried the partially finished manuscript in his garden. A piano score survived, and construction workers later found the buried score. What's heard on this ...
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The main attraction of this commercially successful release from Warner Classics is a world premiere. One might not have thought much music was being written in Warsaw in 1944 (although, check out Czeslaw Milosz's poem Song on the End of the World from roughly the same time), but composer Ludomir Rózycki was at work on a violin concerto, and as he fled the city, he buried the partially finished manuscript in his garden. A piano score survived, and construction workers later found the buried score. What's heard on this recording is a new version by violinist Janusz Wawrowski that combines these two scores with modifications to the violin part to make it more idiomatic to the instrument. Wawrowski gave the premiere of this version, and here, the world premiere recording. It's a two-movement work that's difficult to categorize; it is episodic in structure, and the nearest equivalent might be Korngold. Much of the work has a gentle, lyrical quality that's wholly unexpected given the time and place,...
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Ludomir Rózycki; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
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