Iuventus

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!

World premiere recording of Anton Rubinstein monumental opera 'Moses'. The recordings were made by Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra under Michail Jurowski together with Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Artos Children’s Choir and a tremendous cast (staring Stanisław Kuflyuk (Moses), Torsten Kerl (Pharaoh, king of Egypt), Evelina Dobračeva (Asnath, Pharaon‘s daughter) and Małgorzata Walewska (Johebet, Moses’ mother)). The libretto was originally written in German and this recording maintains this language version.

Czech composer Jaroslav Krcek is not only a composer and instrumentalist, but also a conductor and a great connoisseur of folk music, especially vocal genres. This new recording featuring vocal and instrumental works by the middle-generation composer features a composition of The Lord’s Prayer from the Aramaic as well as other spiritual works. Jaroslav Krcek, born in 1939, studied composition with Miloslav Kabelac and conducting with Bohumir Liska at the Prague Conservatory of Music. After he graduated in 1962, he became a music editor for the recording company Suraphon, and also worked for Pizen Radio and Prague Radio. For more than two decades he has conducted the renowned ensemble Musica Bohemia, which has delighted many audiences at European music festivals. Musica Bohemia is heard on this release, as well.

The instrumental concerto occupies a very prominent place in the music of Krzysztof Penderecki. This fact is related to the great life force exhibited by this genre in twentieth century and in contemporary music. It is stimulated by commissions from virtuosos and by audience expectations; also favourable is the composers’ flexibility in approaching the form, whose chief idea continues to be the juxtaposition of the solo instrument and the orchestra. The violin and viola works presented on this CD are not only interesting, concrete realizations of the concertare idea in Penderecki’s music, but also examples of this composer’s sonic language and style in the period of his creativity which Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski called a "time of dialogue with the regained past".