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Moniuszko - String Quartets 1 & 2; Zarebski - Piano Quintet | CPO 5551242

Moniuszko - String Quartets 1 & 2; Zarebski - Piano Quintet

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5551242

Barcode: 0761203512423

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 30th August 2019

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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 Stanisław 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 humour, 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 Zarębski is being presented here together with the quartets. At the end of his life this favourite 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.

Plawner Quintet:
- Piotr Plawner (violin)
- Sibylla Laeuenberger (violin)
- Elżbieta Mrożek-Loska (viola)
- Isabelle Klim (cello)
- Piotr Sałajczyk (piano)

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