Originally released in 1998 to good notices, the 'Sinfonia Amabile' Choir and Orchestra conducted by Piotr Wajrak along with the best of the cadre of up and coming singers in Poland with Mozart's canonical Requiem in D Minor. The recording was sponsored by the Straszny Dw�r Foundation whose mission is to promote Polish artists, primarily composers, conductors, instrumentalists, singers and dancers, in Poland and around the world.

At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe experienced numerous political and social changes. The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 not only entailed changes in yet stable state structures in a short time, but also influenced the normative canons in art, which resulted in a new epoch - the Romanticism. Nowadays, we find it's ideas in poetry, painting, and music. Those arts drew from each other; therefore, they were intertwined and they complemented themselves by expressing interior spiritual and emotional states of their authors. It is very interesting to see in this background the person and works of Franz Xaver Mozart - a pianist and composer, the youngest son of great Wolfgang Amadeus.

Following the Piazzolla "Tangos" and Guastavino "Tres Romances Argentinos" recorded in 2015, for the first time in Polish history, DUX is releasing all of Mozart's Six Sonatas ever written for piano four hands. This album is a wonderful experience, a true katharsis of the body and soul. The msuic never grows tiresome and its performance provides unrivaled joy, satisfaction and sense of fulfilment. Although the nuances and details can be perfected without end, it is the simplicity of performance and beauty of sound that truly matter.As Mozart wrote the pieces throughout the course of his life, they are very differentiated in sound and meaning: beginning with the exceptionally humorous onata seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy - the Sonata in C Major, KV 19d, all the way up to the C Major, KV 521, composed towards the end of his life.This album is meant to be lively and the artists want the listeners to return to the sonatas hungry for more, rather than overwhelmed.

Franz Xaver Mozart, the youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus, has some 30 piano works to his name. They include nine cycles of variations with opus numbers, three sets of Polonaises melancholiques, sonatas, fantasies, rondos, and several smaller forms. In contrast to his father, he never displayed a performing interest in any instrument other than the piano. He used his outstanding performing skills in his compositional output, the lion's share of which was for the piano. It is these works that pianist Anna Liszewska has included on this release. Anna Liszewska studied at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, gaining her diploma in 1995. She later went on to study under Barbara Halska, John Owings, and Andrzej Jasinski. In addition to an active performing and recording career, Anna is a teacher, and has directed a piano class at the Henryk Wieniawski Primary and Secondary Music Schools, and is on the faculty of the Music Academy in Lodz, lecturing in the Department of Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Early Music, and Jazz.

Serene, almost heavenly in mood, the four masterpieces stand alone in Mozart’s oeuvre. This is the only time he combined flute and solo strings-to bewitchingly elegant effect, be it in invention, emotion, or formal diversity. Each movement has a particular character, for instance the Andantino con Variazioni in the C major Quartet, a delightful cycle lasting over 11 minutes, or the Adagio in the D major Quartet, filled with the “sweetest melancholy, perhaps the loveliest accompanied solo ever written for the flute” (Alfred Einstein.) The great flutist Aurele Nicolet, for years solo flute of the Berliner Philharmoniker, possessed a characteristically transparent tone that made him the ideal interpreter of Mozart: “A tone of pure silver” is how the Neue Zurcher Zeitung described it in its obituary of Aurele Nicolet. It is a singular stroke of luck that this recording was made with the Munchner Streichtrio, whose unique style was molded by violinist Ana Chumachenco, now an internationally renowned pedagogue.

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In the small discography of the first masterworks of Mozart, recorded from the HMV in the spring of 1955 in Paris. A large part of the merit goes to the approach of Sir Thomas Beecham, who spent years studying Mozart's style and performing his compositions. Lightness, vivacity and equilibrium all distinguishing this version that hasn't been available in the Classical music market for years - a version that has not lost its original value despite half a cetury passing.

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This publication collects for the first time some memorable interpretations of a pianist far from the Viennese tradition, generally centered on a grace and an executive civilization that privileged the almost abstract aspect of Mozart's pianism, to offer a more romantic and transgressive vision of Mozart's genius. The present recording comes from Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, and is sometimes proposed as the greatest of all. He was well known for his vast repertoire, effortless technique and poetic phrasing.

V 2: LECTURES OF PROF. JASINSK

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