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Release Date: 08/26/2008 Label: Naxos Catalog #: 8570452 Spars Code: n/a Composer: Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Conductor: Antoni Wit Orchestra/Ensemble: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
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 Mieczyslaw Karlowicz's six symphonic poems feature gobs of Straussian sonority in loosely organized forms, and while Antoni Wit's performances are actually a touch slower than the competition on Chandos, the playing of the Warsaw Philharmonic is so much more atmospheric, richly textured, and knowing than that of the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda that the music is transformed. In classic Romantic fashion, the programmatic basis of all of this music is darkly tragic (for example, Stanislaw and Anna have an incestuous love affair and the story naturally ends in death). Wit clearly understands the idiom and milks the music for all it's worth. Thus, the celebratory sequences in Episode at a Masquerade have an extra degree of feverish brilliance, and the repetitious opening of Lithuanian Rhapsody is spellbinding rather than merely monotonous--in short, these forces make the best possible case for Karlowicz. This is a young man's music--he was only in his early 30s when he died in 1909--full of self-indulgent excess; but it's also brimming with promising talent. This sumptuously engineered production reminds us of just what a loss his early death represented for 20th-century Polish music, while allowing us to savor his all too meager legacy. --David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com |
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Stanislaw and Anna of Oswiecim, Op. 12 by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz | |||||
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Conductor:
Antoni Wit
Orchestra/Ensemble: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1907; Poland |
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Length: 22 Minutes 55 Secs. |
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Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11 by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz | |||||
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Conductor:
Antoni Wit
Orchestra/Ensemble: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1906; Poland |
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Length: 19 Minutes 35 Secs. |
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Episode at a Masquerade, Op. 14 by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz | |||||
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Conductor:
Antoni Wit
Orchestra/Ensemble: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1908-1909; Poland |
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Length: 28 Minutes 8 Secs. |
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