Piotr Anderszewski – Bartók, Janáček, Szymanowski (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:12 minutes | 986 MB | Genre: Classical
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Piotr Anderszewski juxtaposes solo piano works by three composers who asserted and shaped the musical identity of their Central European countries in the earlier 20th century: Janáček in Moravia (which in 1918 became part of Czechoslovakia), Szymanowski in Poland, and Bartók in Hungary.
“The works on this album are imbued with a sense of rebellion,” says Anderszewski, himself a native of Warsaw. “There is no place here for stylisation or decorum. These works plumb the very roots of music.”
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Piotr Anderszewski – Mozart, Schumann: Fantaisies (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:12 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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“I can hear in the music of both composers a similarity in their processes of giving physical form to their inspirations. The cruel resistance of the blank page feels, in both cases, inexistent, ignored. And therein lies an important, precious connection between Mozart and Schumann: an unobstructed directness to their music, in which the purity of intention remains intact.” – Piotr Anderszewski
“A commanding album with Anderszewski demonstrating quite remarkable pianism in four of the finest works written for the instrument…With playing of such elevated musicianship Anderszewski is in remarkable form providing a recital of a very special quality for Warner.” -Musicweb International, Recording of the Month
“All the performances show the lucidity and objectivity that have always been such outstanding qualities of Anderszewski’s playing…He brings the same qualities to a touching performance of Schumann’s last piano work, the so-called Ghost Variations.” -The Guardian
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Piotr Anderszewski – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 27 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:24 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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This pairing of concertos Nos 25 and 27, recorded with Chamber Orchestra of Europe, is Piotr Anderszewski’s third Warner Classics album of Mozart concertos. “In Mozart I tend to prefer to direct from the keyboard,” he explains, “His concertos are like chamber works…The piano is in dialogue with the orchestra, conversing and interacting all the time. The two works are very different …No 25 is very grand, complex and sophisticated; No 27, Mozart’s final piano concerto, is in a major key, but underneath it I sense an incredible sadness … It always amazes me how deep this music is.”
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Piotr Anderszewski – Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Excerpts) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:04 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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Piotr Anderszewski takes a characteristically creative approach to Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-tempered Clavier). Rather than recording all 48 of it’s prelude-and-fugue pairings, he has focused on 12 pairings from Book Two. “I decided to put the pieces together in a sequence of my own subjective choosing, based sometimes on key relationships, at other times on contrasts. The idea behind this specific order is to create a sense of drama that suggests a cycle: 12 characters conversing with one another, mirroring each other.” Anderszewski’s last Erato album of Bach prompted BBC Music Magazine to write: “For anyone who loves Bach (or the piano)… this life-enhancing disc is required listening.”
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