Aleksander Hamilton

Eliot James & Tom Hobden of @petraleksander have been working away on new music for the last year, and we’re thrilled to be releasing the resulting LP ‘Collage’ this September! “A crackling modular synth, reminiscent of a firework display in the distance, provides what we can imagine as a spectacular backdrop for the unfurling of a far more intimate scene, played out between a mournful viola and its string family counterparts…”

Czarnecki as born in 1949 in Jelenia Góra. In 1963-1969, he attended the State Music School in Cz 281;stochowa as a piano class student. It was also there where he took contact with Prof. Romuald Twardowski, with whom he had his first composition lessons. In 1969-1974, he studied composition at the Warsaw Higher State School of Music (currently the Chopin University of Music) in the class of Prof. Piotr Perkowski and Prof. Romuald Twardowski. Vespers for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (Vesperæ in exaltatione Sanctæ Crucis) is a composition that is thoroughly imbued with the Christian tradition. It is almost a complete form of the evening breviary prayer of the Catholic Church written in Latin but already according to the post-conciliar liturgy. The present album features a complete recording of the said work, dedicated to His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

“The album title ADELA comes from a song by Rodrigo which constitutes the emotional culmination of our duo’s programme. What counts is not the name, but the person we love and long for. Everyone certainly has such a person, and so we hope that each listener will find something close to his or her heart on our album.

The album you are holding in your hands is an attempt to answer the question whether one musician can perform polyphonic pieces. Wind instruments are, in this case, in a particularly disadvantageous situation, because, unlike, for example, a violin or a piano, one cannot perform chords on them effectively, not to mention the implementation of several melodic lines. Modern recording technology in conjunction with appropriate software allows you to record subsequent voices and then combine them together - this is commonly used in popular music. However, in the case of classical chamber music, the requirements for this method of recording are much higher. This album by Aleksander Szebesczyk makes the listeners aware that even in purely instrumental works, this kind of complicated treatment can bring a number of unique and at the same time convincing sonoristic and aesthetic impressions.