Polish Violin Concertos Piotr Plawner

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Album-Release:
2016

HRA-Release:
05.07.2016

Label: Naxos

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

Artist: Piotr Plawner, Kammersymphonie Berlin & Jürgen Bruns

Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Michal Spisak (1914-1965), Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)

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  • Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): Violin Concerto No. 1
  • 1I. Allegro04:18
  • 2II. Andante (molto espressivo)04:42
  • 3III. Vivace03:41
  • Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986): Cinq pièces pour violon et petit orchestre
  • 4No. 1. Toccata03:07
  • 5No. 2. Chanson et Boite à Musique02:18
  • 6No. 3. Mouvement perpétuel01:50
  • 7No. 4. Aria03:05
  • 8No. 5. Basso ostinato01:52
  • Michał Spisak (1914-1965): Andante and Allegro for Violin and String Orchestra
  • 9Andante04:28
  • 10Allegro04:43
  • Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991): Violin Concerto
  • 11I. Rubato07:33
  • 12II. Adagio08:43
  • 13III. Vivace05:40
  • Total Runtime56:00

Info for Polish Violin Concertos

The works on this recording were written by four roughly contemporary Polish composers who settled and pursued their careers in different parts of the world. Grażyna Bacewicz’s First Violin Concerto displays her own glittering virtuosity as a performer, while Alexandre Tansman wrote his Baroque-infused Five Pieces for the great Josef Szigeti. Michał Spisak considered his neo-classical Andante and Allegro to be ‘a little story for violin and orchestra’, while Andrzej Panufnik’s wide-ranging Violin Concerto became a ‘pilgrimage into my past’ and is richly suffused with Polish atmosphere.

„Under the strange generic title of ‘Polish Violin Concertos’, we have a superbly performed and very desirable collection of works for violin and chamber orchestra. Only one of the four composers, Grażyna Bacewicz, remained in their native Poland, and it was during her years as leader of the Polish Radio Orchestra that she gave the 1937 premiere of the First Violin Concerto. It is quite short—a little less than thirteen minutes—the spiky and vivacious outer movements surrounding a rather bitter-sweet central Andante. The disc’s only other concerto comes from Andrzej Panufnik, a composer who spent his mature life in England, and it was there in 1971 that Yehudi Menuhin commissioned Panufnik’s only concerto for the instrument. Here, we move into the mainstream sound-colours of the second half of the Twentieth century, its conventional three movement framework exploring ‘Yehudi’s rare powers of spirituality’. At times the work moves into a world of inner contemplation, seldom making demands on the performer’s technical skills. Only in the final Vivace—that follows an Adagio where time stands still—does the score give evidence of happiness. Alexandre Tansman was to spend most of his eighty-nine years in France where he wrote in a style appropriate to Parisian audiences, with all the ‘naughty’ twists and turns expected in scores of the 1930’s. Each of his Five Pieces are quite short and frequently require solo agility, particularly so in the central ‘Mouvement perpetuel’, which is a short burst of finger-knotting virtuosity. France also became home to Michał Spisak, where he was one of Nadia Boulanger’s many pupils, his affection for the neoclassical style, that had been developed by Stravinsky, shown in two pieces that are highly contrasted in feel and tempo. Throughout the playing of the Polish violinist, Piotr Plawner, and the Kammersymphonie Berlin with Jürgen Bruns conducting, are worthy champions of seldom performed works. The recording from German Radio is of exemplary quality.“ (David’s Review Corner)

Piotr Plawner, violin
Kammersymphonie Berlin
Jürgen Bruns, conductor


Piotr Plawner
began studying the violin at the age of six. Just three years later, he made his stage début as a soloist with orchestra. He has won first prize in no fewer than five international violin competitions. The most important of these were the International Festival of Young Talents in Bayreuth (1991), the International Wieniawski Competition in Pozna (1991) and, in 1995, the prestigious International Music Competition of the ARD in Munich. Plawner has performed as a soloist all over Europe, in the Middle East and the United States, playing at many famous venues, including Copenhagen (Tivoli), Paris (Châtelet), Berlin (Schauspielhaus), Munich (Herkules Saal), Stuttgart (Liederhalle), Barcelona (Palau de la Musica Catalana), Madrid (Teatro Monumental) and Amsterdam (Concertgebouw). He has made many recordings for radio and television, for Bayerische Rundfunk, WDR SDR, SWR, ORF, DRS, TVE and Dutch television, among others.

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