Moniuszko - Ballet Music from Hrabina, Halka & The Haunted Manor | Naxos 8573610

Moniuszko - Ballet Music from Hrabina, Halka & The Haunted Manor

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573610

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 10th February 2017

Contents

Artists

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Antoni Wit

Works

Moniuszko, Stanislaw

Civic Polonaise
Concert Polonaise
Funeral March for Antoni Orlowski
Halka
» Mazurka
» Tance goralskie (Highlanders' Dances)
Hrabina (The Countess)
» Ballet music
Jawnuta
» Taniec cyganski (Gypsy Dance)
Leokadia Polka
Monte Christo (ballet)
» Mazurka
Straszny dwor (The Haunted Manor)
» Mazurka (Act 4)
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Ballet Music

Artists

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Antoni Wit

About

Stanisław Moniuszko was Poland’s leading nineteenth-century opera composer, and has been called the man who bridges the gap between Chopin and Szymanowski. In addition to operatic works he also composed purely orchestral music, and this recording reveals that his essentially lyric style could function perfectly in the non-vocal medium. There is thematically memorable music from the comic opera Hrabina (The Countess), as well as enduring Polish-flavoured dance scenes from his most popular and famous stage work, Halka. The spirited Mazurka from Straszny Dwór (The Haunted Manor), Moniuszko’s crowning operatic achievement, draws freely and inventively from his national heritage.

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