Dorian DiscoveryDIS-80121 Masques
The program on this CD presents the works of Polish composers in a reversed chronology, leading the listener from contemporary music back through time to some of its ancestors and roots.Polish music is the music of my motherland. I formed my artistic profile and musical tastes in the Polish artistic atmosphere. Yet during my life in Poland, probably as much out of sheer contrariness as due to true artistic curiosity, my repertoire preferences were mostly focused on the compositions of other countries. Most Polish pianists are exposed to the trap of concentrating on Chopin and dreaming of the famous international competition devoted to him. I am grateful to my fate, as well as my personality, that my musical maturation and exposure to various areas of piano literature proceeded in a balanced and harmonious way, mostly according to my own interests and preferences at each stage. I went through periods of fascination with Ravel, then Bártok amd Liszt, suddenly Bach, the Vienna Classics, Schubert, Brahms and finally Szymanowski, Lutoslawski, Paderewski, Zarebski and my newest love is Chopin. - Elzbieta Wiedner-Zajac - 1993
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