Pawel+szymanski

Pawel Szymanski - Works for Piano - Maciej Grzybowski (2006) {EMI Classics}
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© 2006 EMI Music Poland | 0946 3 71878 2 1
Classical / Contemporary Classical

The record with Paweł Szymański's music performed by the well-known pianist Maciej Grzybowski is one of the first publications of the Polish Audiovisual Publishers released together with the EMI label. It opens the entire series of recordings of this outstanding composer and leading Polish postmodernist signed by PWA. The album is opened by the now famous Two Studies, one of the most recognizable pieces by Szymański, characteristic of his style, which defines a specific technique of surconventionalism (composer's definition), consisting in revealing only parts of the musical narrative, so that the listener must reconstruct the whole by imagination "ragged" rhythmic course.

Pawel Szymanski - Partita III i IV, Dwie Etiudy, Lux aeterna, Miserere (1997) {CD Accord ACD 038-2}
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© 1994, 1997 Polskie Radio / CD Accord | ACD 038-2 / 011 378-2
Classical / Contemporary Classical

A monographic record of one of the greatest Polish composers of postmodern time - Paweł Szymański. The compositions recorded here perfectly define his compositional idiom, which consists mainly of two elements: a heterophonic texture and a specific technique of surconventionalism (composer's definition), consisting in revealing only parts of the musical narrative, so that the listener must reconstruct the whole by imaginary force. The tracks are characterized by a "ragged" rhythmic course and a wealth of color means. As a result, Szymański's unusually expressive, original style is perfectly recognizable to anyone who has ever met his music.

Pawel Szymanski - Chamber Works - The Silesian String Quartet (2006) {EMI Classics}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical

Paweł Szymański (born 28 March 1954 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish composer. When he was a student attending the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Szymański studied composition under Włodzimierz Kotoński. Paweł later studied under Roman Haubenstock-Ramanti as well as Tadeusz Baird. His music is based on strict technical discipline and the initial sound material of Szymański’s pieces has roots in past conventions but is always processed and composed from the beginning. Szymański himself talks of his music using the qualification “surconventionalism”. His style is similar to that of a neoclassical composer, but instead Szymański emphasizes past styles within his works. Many of his works also include influences from the baroque era as well as from Renaissance fantasias. He often modifies these classical styles of music until they become abstract and impressionistic.

Karol Szymanowski & Paweł Szymański - Kwartet Akademos (2007) {Polskie Radio Katowice PRKCD 084}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical / String Quartet

Kwartet Akademos was founded in 1997. The team members improved their skills at post-graduate studies: Anna Szabelka at the Music Academy in Warsaw in the class of prof. Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, while the other members of the quartet at the Music Academy in Katowice in the chamber music class of Marek Mos. In 2007, he was invited to Carnegie Hall in New York for the "The ESQ Workshop: Beethoven Quartets" course, which was led by members of The Emerson String Quartet.

Pawel Szymanski - Zaratustra (2006) {EMI 094637187623}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical

The album contains songs composed for the performance Zarathustra directed and set design by Krystian Lupa (Stary Teatr, Kraków). Paweł Szymański caused this sensation by winning two of the highly prized music awards in Poland: the title of theatrical music of the year in the plebiscite of the monthly THEATER and the award for the best music for the film (Plac Zbawiciela) at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia!

Paweł Szymański - Dissociative Counterpoint Disorder - Małgorzata Sarbak (2016) {Bôłt‎ DUX 1332}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical

Andrzej Chlopecki, the late critic and animator of the music scene, wrote extensively about Szymanski's music as well as supporting the composer by means of his longtime role with the Warsaw Autumn festival. Chlopecki puts things thus: "the formal structure is beautiful while stylistic expression is calculated: for Szymanski's music is a continual game." He then offers precedents in Johannes Ockeghem and Anton Webern, deducing that Szymanski's "guiding principles would be speculation and constructivism." Rendering the loaded quality in the composer's works, Chlopecki adds that the aim of Szymanski's music is the creation of symbolic entities within abstract art forms."

Paweł Szymański - Camerata Silesia Sings Szymański (2016) {DUX 1223}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical / Choral

In Britain, Paweł Szymański’s name began to appear a few decades ago, seeming to be a natural successor to such composers as Tavener and, particularly, Górecki, but to have taken such an aesthetic in a more overtly postmodernist direction. However, his interest in music of the past, and the way in which he interacts with it, was in any case perhaps closer to Schnittke in many ways. At all events, in his native Poland, and far beyond, he has continued to be a respected and innovative force, as this magnificent disc of four of his works for choir (and instruments) demonstrates.

Simon Ghraichy’s thoughtful second album for Deutsche Grammophon (the title alludes to the pianist’s age at the time of recording) is highly personal and self-reflective. Alkan’s distressing portrait of a woman at the mercy of the sea helps Ghraichy exorcise his childhood fear of water, while Schumann’s enigmatic Humoreske demands from him the most intense introspection. This thrilling program also introduces us to his charming obsession with hourglasses—Nyman’s deeply hypnotic “Time lapse” emerges from Philip Glass’ undulating, unsettling music from The Truman Show, “Raising the Sail.” Striking études by Szymański and Schumann’s incredible variations on the Allegretto from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 complete a complex, nourishing musical journey.

Polish Radio Experimental Studio at Warszawa was founded in October 1957 by Jozef Patkowski who conducted the Studio till 1985. More then 200 autonomous compositions produced. Several hundreds titles for film, theatre, TV, radio and various exhibi¬tions came out from the Studio.