Orkiestra Taneczna

This second Warner Classics album from the Polish Orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus sheds light on two of Poland’s greatest composers: Ignacy Jan Paderewski (with a high-energy performance of his famed Piano Concerto in A Minor Op.17 featuring British pianist Jonathan Plowright) and the lesser-known Zygmunt Stojowski (with the world-premiere recording of his Symphony Rhapsody for piano and orchestra Op. 23).

The 2020, in many ways a Neapolitan year, was instead very favorable from the point of view of record for the Neapolitan composer Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730). After the album entirely dedicated to him – Veni, Vidi ,Vinci – by Franco Fagioli for Deutsche Grammophon, was published by Parnassus on the main digital platforms, the opera gismondo King of Poland. Net of some air already recorded by Filippo Maneccia in 2014 and Franco Fagioli (in the album above mentioned), it is a world premiere in terms of Integral recording, which follows after a couple of years, a series of performances in the form of a concert by the same cast. At the heart of this project is one of the diamond tips of the countertenor landscape, Max Emanuel Cencic.

The principal audience for Polish folk and dance music in the 1920s and ʼ30s was Polish immigrants and Polish Americans living in urban areas in the northeastern US as well as in and around Chicago. This collection of music presents a variety of bands and musicians from that era. Although interest in Polish village music waned during the Depression, it served as a precursor to the development of Chicago-style polkas in the 1950s.

Barbara Świątek-Żelazna (flute), Diethelm Jonas (oboe), Stanisław Dziewior (trumpet)
Narodowa Orkiestra Polskiego Radia w Katowicach, Orkiestra Filharmonii Śląskiej, Antoni Wit, Ruben Silva, Michał Klauza, Karol Stryja

Na swoim najnowszym albumie, który zawiera 10 utworów, Marcin Wyrostek chciał pokazać wszechstronność akordeonu, stąd na płycie oprócz utworów z zespołem Tango Corazon znalazł się utwór solowy, utwory z orkiestrą kameralną Aukso, czy z tradycyjnym zespołem dętym blaszanym.