Pieces from the Daniel Croner Tablature

MISSA PULCHERRIMA MOTETS

GRUNWALD 1410-2010: IN HONOREM

MONARCA DELLA TROMBA

Julia Kociuban, began studying piano at age 5, eventually studying at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Currently a student at Universit�t Mozarteum Salzburg, Ms. Kociuban has received awards in many competitions, including the Milosz MaginInternational Piano Competition in 2005 and Les Jeudis du Piano in 2011. A recipient of several prestigious scholarships, Ms. Kociuban has been an invited performer for the Festival de la Roque d'Antheron and the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. She can often be seen performing with her brothers in "Family Trio" and DUOKociuban.

Krzysztof Penderecki is one of the most famous and prominent living Polish composers. Symphonies have a special place in his legacy, but until now have never been recorded in a series under his artistic direction. In celebration of his 80th birthday, DUX presents the best performances of his works with the Sinfonia luventus. His great musical authority influences the young musicians' energetic and fresh sound.

Szymanowski: Piano Sonatas

TWIN FLAMES

Laid against the historical background, the clarinet concerto is quite exceptional: there really aren’t such works, as there are for the piano, violin or guitar composed by virtuoso master clarinetists. One has to truly love the clarinet to as little as hear of such composers as Backofen, Yost, or Bärmann. But interest in the clarinet doesn’t wane, and concerto works for this instrument continue to be written by, amongst others, Jean Francaix (1912-97) and Marek Podkowa (Orexis), here receiving its world premiere recording beside Mozart’s clarinet masterpiece.

Baculewski: Works for Orchestra

Szymanowski: Songs

Przybylski: Works for Orchestra

As politicians and the media increasingly stoke the fires of aggressive paranoia be­tween the Western world and Middle East, the work of activists, artists and others who seek to emphasize our deep historical and human connections above our differences play an important role in rebalancing toward a healthier, more accurate perspective. Such is the case with the present recording.

POLISH MAZURKAS

It remains an open question whether Bach’s six trio-sonatas fall into the category of keyboard music or chamber music. Bach adopted the then quite common form of the Italian trio-sonata not only for compositional but also for pedagogic reasons. It is also difficult to say how much of the musical material was written specifically for this cycle. At the same time they are exercises demanding an extremely high level of artistry in playing three independent voices with two hands and pedals. The student-originally in this particular case this was probably Wilhelm Friedemann Bach- is to learn thereby not only manual dexterity but also compositional technique. At first sight these pieces may look rather complex, but in fact the upper voices with their richly embellished lines proceed from a quite normal solid harmonic structure that is essentially a product of the basso continuo style. In addition, music for three independent voices provides an excellent opportunity for showing how an organ, with its distinct separate manual and pedal sections, can really sound like three different instruments simultaneously. This music is performed on The Organ of Joachim Wagner in Siedlce, an instrument discovered in 2002 in the village church in Pruszyn.