Marek Szlezer

This long awaited album was released by DUX and features two piano concertos by the outstanding Polish post-Romantic Zygmunt Stojowski, a student and friend of Ignacy Jan Paderewski. It is our great pleasure to be able to remind listeners once again of such a valuable repertoire. We are certain that this new album will bring them much joy and satisfaction!

This new recording presents selected piano works of Fryderyk Chopin, and the return of pianist Marek Szlezer to, as he himself writes, the "piano house", which for him is the oeuvre of one of the most famous composers in the world.

For many years Marek Szlezer has dreamed about making recordings of young works by Szymanowski, noticing in them special beauty, extraordinary expression and exceptional atmosphere. This passion is easily seen in the enthusiastic, expressive play of the pianist, perfectly building form and with extraordinary naturalness creating tension.

Clarinettist Barbara Borowicz and pianist Marek Szlezer present an album of largely unknown works by Polish composer Witold Friemann including Autumn Twilight Op.355. Witold Friemann (1889-1977), composer of circa 1300 solo, chamber and orchestral works, belongs to the group of forgotten composers, which is largely a consequence of historical events and life choices of the composer, who spent the last years of his life as a teacher at the Institute for the Blind in Laski near Warsaw.