Silesian Quartet

Silesian Quartet - Polish Piano Quintets (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 21, 2024
Silesian Quartet - Polish Piano Quintets (2024)

Silesian Quartet - Polish Piano Quintets (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:14:30 | 560 Mb
Genre: Classical

Six composers – seven quintets – four pianists – one quartet. The latest double-CD album of the Silesian Quartet contains compositions by Aleksander Lasoń, Krzysztof Meyer, Zbigniew Bargielski, Bettina Skrzypczak and Bartosz Witkowski. The quartet is accompanied by pianists: Eugeniusz Knapik, Piotr Sałajczyk, Zygmunt Krazue and Tymoteusz Bies.
Silesian Quartet - Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 1, 16 & 17 (2021)

Silesian Quartet - Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 1, 16 & 17 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 300 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:03:07
Classical | Label: CD Accord

It is the spring of 1937. Musical circles in Warsaw are still abuzz with talk of the recently concluded 3 rd Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, especially as one of the main prizes that year has gone to Witold Małcużyński, an alumnus of Józef Turczyński’s class at the Warsaw Conservatoire. Alongside Małcużyński, Józef Turczyński has spent the last four years nurturing another promising student, an 18-year-old called Weinberg (Polish: Wajnberg). Known as Moses in his official papers, he is nowadays more keen to go by the name of Mieczysław. It was this name he had used when he put his name to two mazurkas penned in 1933 and dedicated to “Professor Józef Turczyński”. Following the mazurkas, Mietek – the diminutive form of this typically Polish name that years later he would insist that others call him by – composed three more miniatures for violin and piano, and another small piece for solo piano. And now, in 1937, he has decided to compose a string quartet, that is a multi-movement piece for a larger line-up.
Silesian Quartet - Krzysztof Penderecki: Complete Quartets (2021)

Silesian Quartet - Krzysztof Penderecki: Complete Quartets (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 244 Mb | Total time: 54:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 20175 | Recorded: 2012, 2021

The Silesian Quartet sprang to international attention with it's award-winning recordings of chamber music by Grazyna Bacewicz. It's latest project - the complete quartets of Penderecki - was started in 2012, but not completed until January 2021. Presented chronologically, the works on the album take us on a journey from Penderecki's early avant-garde 'sonoristic' style of the 1960s - the first and second quartets - to the later neo-romantic style of the third and fourth quartets, composed in 2008 and 2016 respectively. Of all Penderecki's output, the Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio shows the strongest links to the chamber music of the nineteenth century. Penderecki was inspired to write the piece by the 1992 recording by the Emerson String Quartet and Mstislav Rostropovich of Schubert's String Quintet in C major, D 956. Here the Silesian Quartet is joined by the clarinetist Piotr Szymyslik.
Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 61:25 minutes | 598 MB
Classical | Label: CD Accord, Official Digital Download

String Quartet No. 5 was written in the autumn of 1945 and was performed on 17 May 1947 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it was dedicated. Years later, the composer returned to this Quartet and arranged it for orchestra as the four-movement Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151 (performed on 18 November 1991). It was several years before that he had first begun to turn to his scores from almost half a century earlier, and he already had 17 string quartets under his belt.
Silesian Quartet - Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 1, 16 & 17 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Silesian Quartet - Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 1, 16 & 17 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 63:07 minutes | 1,1 GB
Classical | Label: CD Accord, Official Digital Download

It is the spring of 1937. Musical circles in Warsaw are still abuzz with talk of the recently concluded 3 rd Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, especially as one of the main prizes that year has gone to Witold Małcużyński, an alumnus of Józef Turczyński’s class at the Warsaw Conservatoire.
Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022)

Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 331 MB | Tracks: 13 | 61:26
Style: Classical | Label: CD Accord

String Quartet No. 5 was written in the autumn of 1945 and was performed on 17 May 1947 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it was dedicated. Years later, the composer returned to this Quartet and arranged it for orchestra as the four-movement Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151 (performed on 18 November 1991). It was several years before that he had first begun to turn to his scores from almost half a century earlier, and he already had 17 string quartets under his belt. It was also then that he arranged his String Quartets No. 2 and No. 3 as Chamber Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2, and in the summer of 1987 that he confided to a friend: “I’m looking through the baggage of my youth. Sometimes I find something in there that is worth rethinking.”

Silesian Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets (2016)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 9, 2018
Silesian Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets (2016)

Silesian Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 02:12:48 | 598 Mb
Classical | Label: Chandos

For their debut release on Chandos, award winning Silesian Quartet presents the complete string quartets by Grayna Bacewicz. Bacewicz's life was conditioned by the political and military events of her time, making her works reflect not only traumas but also the stylistic shifting into twentieth-century music. These seven string quartets have withstood the test of time and showcase Bacewicz's understanding of all string instruments.
Silesian Quartet - Weinberg - String Quartets Nos. 2-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Silesian Quartet - Weinberg- String Quartets Nos. 2-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 76:45 minutes | 1,38 GB
Classical | Label: CD Accord, Official Digital Download

Mieczysław Weinberg (Polish: Wajnberg) wrote his first string quartet in May 1937. In autumn 1939, he made his way in dramatic circumstances to the Soviet Union, and there, exempted from military service due to poor health, he was given the chance to continue his training in composition at the Minsk Conservatory.
Silesian String Quartet - Joachim Mendelson, Grażyna Bacewicz: Chamber Works (2023)

Silesian String Quartet, Karolina Stalmachowska & Piotr Salajczyk - Joachim Mendelson, Grażyna Bacewicz: Chamber Works (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 244 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 131 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:56:00
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

The award-winning Silesian quartet present a new album featuring two composers from Warsaw – Joachim Mendelson and Grażnya Bacewicz. After completing his music studies in Warsaw and Berlin, Joachim Mendelson moved to Paris in 1929, where he joined the Association des Jeunes Musiciens Polonais, a society founded in 1926 to facilitate the study, publication, and promotion of the works of young Polish composers. Bacewicz also received support from the Association, and from Paderewski, and studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. The associations’ aims included re-establishing a national musical life at the highest level back in Poland (after more than a century of joint occupation by Russia, Prussia, and Austria), and both composers returned to Warsaw and worked there until 1939.

Silesian Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at April 6, 2017
Silesian Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets (2017)

Silesian Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 132:38 min | 307 MB
Label: Chandos | Tracks: 23 | Rls.date: 2017

For their very first recording on Chandos, the multi-award winning Silesian Quartet presents the complete string quartets by Grayna Bacewicz. These lesser-known chamber music treasures by the Polish composer are neatly packaged in a slimline jewel case: two discs here offered for the price of one.