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This album is the first phonographic instalment of a series of albums under the joint title Flutissima, initiated by Sylwia Kubiak-Dobrowolska.

Espressione, Italian competition competition … from Bolzano to San Marino "is the debut album of semi-finalist of the 17th International Chopin Competition - Łukasz Krupiński. The same month as the only Polish Pole to get to the finals of the International Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Bolzano, which will take place in August 2017.

In 2016 the Witold Lutoslawski Chamber Philharmonic in Lomza organized the educational campaign “Colors of Music” for the second time. It has been realized under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The campaign is interdisciplinary; as it combines visual arts and music of representatives of various periods. By developing musical-plastic imagination, the organizers wanted to make young receivers of art sensitive to its multidimensionality. The artists of the Philharmonic unraveled the mystery of the musical world, performing concerts enriched with a lecture, presentation of musical instruments, and recordings.

Currently, Feliks Nowowiejski is recognisable mainly as the author of music to Maria Konopnickas Oath, alternatively as composer of organ and oratorio music. His symphonic output, overshadowed by the works of Karol Szymanowski, who was composing at the same time, is rarely performed and has not been presented to the wider audience yet. The present album, thanks to the efforts of the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Lukasz Borowicz, fills this gap in the image of the Polish music of the interwar period.

One of the first ‘large-format’ works by Felix Nowowiejski was the oratorio Die Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes, marked in the catalogue of the Polish composer’s pieces as opus 3.

cpo’s Andrzej Panufnik Symphonic Works series has been met with great critical acclaim. The fifth volume in this series sees the young Polish conductor Lukasz Borowicz leading the larger forces of the Berlin Concert Orchestra in fine interpretations of the Polish-English composers’ popular Symphonies 7 and 8 and Concerto Festivo. Symphony No. 7 ‘Metasinfonia’ for organ, timpani and strings is dedicated to the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the symbol of independence for Polish people. Symphony No. 8 ‘Votiva’ is one of Panufnik’s most-performed works.