Hyperion's large Romantic Piano Concerto series (this is the 67th volume) has yielded a lot of fair-to-middling music and a few gems. This release of music by Ludomir Rózycki, unknown outside his native Poland, fits into the latter category. Yes, it's true that the Ballade in G minor, Op. 18, is harmonically conservative for 1904, to say nothing of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 43, of 1917-1918 and the World War II-era Piano Concerto No. 2. All these pieces are essentially late Romantic in style. But none is ...
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Hyperion's large Romantic Piano Concerto series (this is the 67th volume) has yielded a lot of fair-to-middling music and a few gems. This release of music by Ludomir Rózycki, unknown outside his native Poland, fits into the latter category. Yes, it's true that the Ballade in G minor, Op. 18, is harmonically conservative for 1904, to say nothing of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 43, of 1917-1918 and the World War II-era Piano Concerto No. 2. All these pieces are essentially late Romantic in style. But none is derivative or stale. The Ballade is a student work, but already captures the essence of Rózycki's style, which infuses great spontaneity into traditional forms. Note especially the delightfully understated conclusion to this work. The first movement of the Piano Concerto No. 1 (track two) makes a good place to start when sampling the album. It has a slow introduction of a sort, but with an unusual conversational quality that seems organically linked to the explosive "Allegro" that...
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