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Moniuszko: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 - Zarebski: Piano Quintet, Op. 34 / Plawner Quintet
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Moniuszko: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 - Zarebski: Piano Quintet, Op. 34 / Plawner Quintet

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Details

Composer
MONIUSZKO ZAREBSKI
Artist
Plawner Quintet
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Sep 06, 2019
Catalog #
555124-2
UPC
761203512423

About

While the music world is getting ready for next year’s 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, this year’s bicentennial of the birth of the Polish national composer Stanislaw Moniuszko has gone practically unnoticed outside Poland. For this reason, this new recording of his two string quartets is all the more welcome. The composer who would become the celebrated master of the operas Halka and The Haunted Manor wrote these quartets during or shortly after his Berlin study years and in a style continuing to draw on the vocabulary of classical models. At the same time, the twenty-year-old student displays a sense of humor, melodicism, and chamber finesse that not only make for a genuinely rewarding listening experience but also are worth hearing again and again. A “late” creation by Moniuszko’s young fellow Pole Juliusz Zarebski is being presented here together with the quartets. At the end of his life this favorite pupil and confidant of Franz Liszt wrote an absolutely “avant-garde” piano quintet that might have launched a bold and daring oeuvre but ended up serving as a farewell: when this virtuoso pianist and composer delighting in experiment died in 1885, he was a mere thirty-one years old.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro agitato 04:59
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro agitato
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  2. 2 II. Andantino - 03:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andantino -
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  3. 3 III. Scherzo: [Vivo] 04:04
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzo: [Vivo]
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  4. 4 IV. Finale, "Un ballo campestre e sue consequenze": Allegro assai 03:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale, "Un ballo campestre e sue consequenze": Allegro assai
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  5. 5 I. Allegro moderato 05:50
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  6. 6 II. Andante 04:43
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  7. 7 III. Scherzo, "Baccanale monacale": Allegretto - Trio 02:06
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Scherzo, "Baccanale monacale": Allegretto - Trio
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  8. 8 IV. Finale: Allegro 02:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Stanisław Moniuszko
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  9. 9 I. Allegro 09:46
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    09:46
    Composer
    Juliusz Zarębski
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  10. 10 II. Adagio 10:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    10:28
    Composer
    Juliusz Zarębski
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  11. 11 III. Scherzo: Presto 05:57
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Presto
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Juliusz Zarębski
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet
  12. 12 IV. Finale 08:44
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Finale
    Duration
    08:44
    Composer
    Juliusz Zarębski
    Ensemble
    Plawner Quintet