Ekier - Complete Piano Works
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Label: Chopin University Press
Cat No: UMFCCD190
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 29th March 2024
Contents
Works
Carols (20)Colourful Melodies (9)
Highlander Dance
Humoresque, op.3 no.2
Lullaby, op.3 no.1
Mazurka, op.5
Mazurkas (2), op.2
Preludes (2), op.1
Toccata, op.4
Artists
Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryla (piano)Works
Carols (20)Colourful Melodies (9)
Highlander Dance
Humoresque, op.3 no.2
Lullaby, op.3 no.1
Mazurka, op.5
Mazurkas (2), op.2
Preludes (2), op.1
Toccata, op.4
Artists
Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryla (piano)About
Jan Ekier (1913-2014) is an outstanding figure with versatile abilities and interests, enormous artistic achievements and exceptional contributions to Polish art and culture. Ekier became an outstanding concert pianist (winner of the 3rd Chopin Competition in 1937), a music editor (editor-in-chief of the National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin), an excellent teacher (from 1953 to 2000, a professor at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, later the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music), and finally a composer.
Ekier's compositional work mainly dates back to his youth (1933-1951) and is characterised by a romantic-lyrical idiom, which comes from, among others, out of infatuation with the works of Fryderyk Chopin, Karol Szymanowski and folklore.
Ekier's piano work is highly original and has its own expressive musical language. These features allow him to place his music next to the works of artists such as Witold Lutosławski. The piano compositions of the author of Humoresque and Toccata have their place in the development of Polish musical creativity in the first half of the 20th century and cannot be treated only as a musical curiosity from the rich life of a pianist, teacher and music editor, but as full-fledged works with an individual stylistic character.
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