℗ 2013 Hyperion Records Limited
Released | February 16, 2024 |
Originated | March 31, 2013 |
Duration | 1h 01m 24s |
Record Label | Hyperion |
Genre | Classical |
Zarzycki & Żeleński: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 59)
Jonathan Plowright
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major, Op. 60
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1.1
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I. Allegro maestoso
Władysław Żeleński; Jonathan Plowright |
14:26 | |||
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II. Thème varié. Andantino quasi allegretto
Władysław Żeleński; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
10:25 | |||
1.3
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III. Finale-Rondo. Allegro non troppo ma con brio
Władysław Żeleński; Jonathan Plowright |
9:09 | |||
Piano Concerto in A-Flat Major, Op. 17
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1.4
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I. Andante
Aleksander Zarzycki; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
7:08 | |||
1.5
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II. Allegro non troppo
Aleksander Zarzycki; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
10:13 | |||
1.6
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Grande Polonaise in E-Flat Major, Op. 7
Aleksander Zarzycki; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
10:03 | |||
Digital Booklet
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"Żeleński's E flat major Concerto is the more interesting work … the soloist is kept busy throughout. And who better to do the business than that alchemist among keyboard players, Jonathan Plowright, who has that rare ability to turn second-rate music into masterpieces … buy the album for the Żeleński finale alone. A word, too, about his conductor Łukasz Borowicz who catches spot-on every tricky twist and turn and inspires the BBC Scottish players in their cracking accompaniment. We'll be hearing a lot more of him."
- Gramophone
This 59th volume of the Romantic Piano Concerto series features Jonathan Plowright, whose brilliant and utterly idiomatic performances of Romantic Polish piano music have confirmed him as a master of this repertoire. Here he collaborates with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Łukasz Borowicz to perform three very obscure but fascinating works. The music of Żeleński has already been championed by Plowright in a disc of Polish chamber music; now he performs his Piano Concerto in E flat major, which was written in 1903 and dedicated to the young Ignacy Friedman, who gave the premiere the following year.
A Piano Concerto in A flat major by Aleksander Zarzycki is also included, plus his barnstorming Grande Polonaise, an outrageous masterpiece which is unknown even in specialist piano circles.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Hyperion Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.75 -1.01 to -0.34 | -24.22 -26.99 to -22.61 | -20.75 -23.50 to -19.10 | 15 14 to 17 | |
1 | I. Allegro maestoso | -0.65 | -24.00 | -20.2 | 15 |
2 | II. Thème varié. Andantino quasi allegretto | -1.01 | -26.99 | -23.5 | 17 |
3 | III. Finale-Rondo. Allegro non troppo ma con brio | -0.93 | -24.47 | -21.1 | 15 |
4 | I. Andante | -0.94 | -24.61 | -21.4 | 14 |
5 | II. Allegro non troppo | -0.61 | -22.62 | -19.2 | 14 |
6 | Grande Polonaise in E-Flat Major, Op. 7 | -0.34 | -22.61 | -19.1 | 15 |