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6th MUSICAL AUTUMN IN KRAKOW

2019-10-22, Tuesday
19:30

where: National Museum, The Main Building
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ZARĘBSKI PIANO DUO:
Piotr Różański – piano
Grzegorz Mania – piano

 



programme:

Antonin Dvořák – Slavonic Dances Op. 46 No. 2 and 4
Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Tatra Album Op. 14 No. 1-4
Emil Wojtacki – Sketches of a Space - three etudes
Władysław Żeleński – Trauerklänge op. 36
                                     –Cracovienne i Masovienne from Suite of Polish Dances, Op. 47
Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dances No. 4 and 6

Tonight centres around piano compositions for four hands. On the one hand, there are two pianists, each with their unique and inimitable personalities, but on the other hand, there is a single instrument only, requiring thinking together and understanding one another mid-phrase…
Antonin Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, was a spectacular success immediately upon its publication in 1878. Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances served as a source of inspiration and a role model to follow. Dvořák would refer to the musical traditions of his native country on many occasions in his work. In the Slavonic Dances he refers to the form and character of individual Czech dances, but never directly quotes the folk melodies. Tonight, we will be introduced to the wistful Slavic lyricism, combined with enthusiastic and vibrant energy, by two of the dances: Dumka and Sousedská.
Following the experience of Czech folk music, we will remain in the realm of folk music inspirations, but this time linked with Polish traditions. Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s Tatra Album, Op. 12, is a result of masterful virtuoso arrangement of original highlander folk melodies for the piano. The composer was exposed to traditional highlander music during his numerous stays in the town of Zakopane. It was Tytus Chałubiński who encouraged him to undertake hiking in the mountains, and to become familiar with the local folk music, and it was him that Paderewski dedicated his piano cycle to.
The next item on tonight’s programme is Emil Wojtacki’s Sketches of a Space – Three Etudes. It is one of the very few examples of contemporary compositions for four hands. The author is based in Krakow, where he completed studies at the Academy of Music, and went on to work as a teacher there, strongly affiliated with the university publishing house. He is a winner of numerous composition competitions, with his works performed at festivals in Poland and abroad. Sketches of a Space was premiered in October 2018 by the Zarębski Piano Duo. The composition consists of three etudes, in which the primary role is played by a search for different tone colours within a single sound, as well as by the idea of repetitiveness, which is quite an unorthodox approach to the piano texture.
The following two works were composed by a Polish artist who left an indelible mark on the history of Krakow. Władysław Żeleński, a pianist, and outstanding teacher and composer, was the first director of the Conservatory of the Krakow Music Society, established on his own initiative in 1887. Żeleński’s music shared the fate of many other forgotten composers; many of his works were lost, and many have largely remained unknown and never performed. Tonight, we will have a rare opportunity to listen to his Trauerklänge, Op. 36, as well as Cracovienne and Masovienne from the Suite of Polish, Op. 47. In both cases, the presented piano versions for four hands are transcriptions of works originally composed for the orchestra.
Tonight’s concert is nearly entirely permeated with folk and dance music, and the same could be said about its finale. At the end of the evening we will find ourselves in the world of Hungarian folk melodies, whose motifs were used by Johannes Brahms in his Hungarian Dances. It is one of the best known and most frequently performed works in the history of music.


Aleksandra Biśta
transl. Katarzyna Franek-Sokołowska

 


PIOTR RÓŻAŃSKI – graduated from the piano studies at the Academy of Music in Krakow in the class of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń (undergraduate studies) and Ewa Bukojemska (master’s degree). He studied chamber music for five years in the class of Janina Romańska-Werner. In 2014 he received the degree of doctor of art and in 2019 a post-doctoral degree. He is currently a member of the Piano Department at the Academy of Music in Krakow and a piano teacher at the 2nd Degree Music School of Frederic Chopin in Krakow. Piotr Różański is a laureate of numerous piano competitions, both nationwide and international (including the 38th Chopin National Piano Competition, Warsaw 2006 – first prize, the Piano Competition for the YAMAHA Foundation scholarship, Gdańsk 2008 – first prize). He is also a semi-finalist of the Piano-e-Competition in Minneapolis (USA), 2009; The Euroradio competition in Bratislava (as the Polish representative), 2009; and the J. Brahms Competition in Pörtschach 2011. He has performed in Poland and many other European countries (including the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, France, Great Britain, Lithuania), as well as in Israel and the USA. As a chamber musician, he cooperated e.g. with Kaja Danczowska, Maria Sławek, Piotr Reichert, Marcin Zdunik, Rafał Kwiatkowski, Robert Kabara, Piotr Lato, Jacek Ozimkowski, Milena Kędra, Aleksandra Lelek, Grzegorz Mania, Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska, Monika Gardoń-Preinl. He performed at the following festivals: Winners and Masters, Chopin and his Europe, The Lodz Philharmonic Premiere, Wawel at Dusk, Summer Music, Mozartiana, Music in Old Krakow, Emanations, Young Musicians Festival, International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. Piotr Różański’s recent collaboration with violinist Maria Sławek resulted in two CD recordings of violin sonatas by Schumann, Prokofiev and Weinberg. Since 2013 Piotr Różański has collaborated with the Kraków-based pianist Grzegorz Mania, specializing in performances of music for piano four hands by such Polish composers as Noskowski, Paderewski, Zarębski and Żeleński, and concertizing throughout Europe and the United States.

 

GRZEGORZ MANIA – graduated with distinction from the Music Academy in Krakow, where he studied piano under Stefan Wojtas. He is also a graduate (distinction) of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he was tutored by Martin Roscoe, Charles Owen and Caroline Palmer. Grzegorz is also a graduate of the Jagiellonian University, where he read law and in 2017 obtained a PhD for a dissertation about music and copyright. He works as a soloist, with orchestra, as an accompanist and chamber musician, as well as regularly duetting with Alicja Smietana, Romana Szczepaniak, Maria Slawek, violinists and Piotr Różanski, pianist. He is a member of the Extra Sounds Ensemble – the group has recently recorded a CD for Solo Musica, Munchen with pieces by Corelli, Vivaldi, Schnittke and Kreisler. Grzegorz played in many important halls and during many national and international festivals in Poland and abroad – UK, France, Austria, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Vietnam, Israel, USA. Performing at the International Chamber Music Workshops in Puławy (Poland, 2003-2005), he has also been a finalist in a number of international solo and chamber competitions from 2002 to the present. He won numerous awards for an outstanding accompaniment during national and international instrumental competitions. He has played in master-classes by, among others, Jerome Rose, Victor Rosenbaum, Wolfgang Redik, Tadeusz Gadzina, Anthony Spiri, Peter S. Buck, Piotr Reichert; and has received coaching from Alexander Baillie, Ewa Bukojemska, Krzysztof Smietana, Wiesław Kwaśny, Altenberg Trio, Alisdair Beatson, Carole Presland, Krzysztof Chorzelski and Jan Jański. Grzegorz is a co-funder and president of the Polish Chamber Musicians’ Association. He is also a co-author of an innovatice sight-reading handbook for pianists published by prestigious PWM Edition, famous from its Chopin edition.

 



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