Rozycki's music, to this one of the best known Polish stories ever told, is of characteristic form, drawing for its musical inspiration mainly from folklore, both Polish and foreign. It is the source of expressive motifs and dance forms (krakoviak, oberek, mazurka). The composition is richly instrumented, melodic, lively, interwoven with familiar childhood melodies of folk origin.
Label: Polskie Nagrania - Muza , 2006
Catalogue No: PNCD 862 A-B
Format: 2-CD's (re-mastered from original analog master tapes). Includes 20-pages long booklet with essays in Polish and English languages.
Condition: GENUINE, BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED
Tracks:
CD 1
Introduction
Act I
Scene I - Pracownia Twardowskiego
Scene II - Dachy Krakowa
Scene III - Olkusz
Scene IV - Krzemionki
CD 2
Act II
Scene V - Rynek krakowski
Scene VI - Duch Barbary
Scene VII - Wschod
Scene VIII - Karczma "Rzym"
Scene IX - Apoteoza
Performed by:
Female Voice Choir and the Warsaw Grand Theatre Orchestra. Antoni Wicherek - conductor
Janina Ruskiewicz - soprano
Bogdan Paprocki - tenor
Recorded:
1973 at the Warsaw Grand Opera, Warsaw Poland
About:
Ludomir Rozycki (November 6, 1884 in Warsaw – January 1, 1953 in Katowice) was a Polish composer and conductor. He was, with Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group called Young Poland, intended to invigorate the Polish musical culture of their generation. After a youthful period of fascination with German symphonic music, he turned to opera and ballet as those forms which allow the greatest diversity in using means of artistic expression. "Master Twardowski" ballet libretto was based by novel by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski of a Polish nobleman who sough immortality, signed a pact with a Devil, became sorcerer, and finally settled on the Moon, where his adventurous legend came to the end. Rozycki's music, to this one of the best known Polish stories ever told, is of characteristic form, drawing for its musical inspiration mainly from folklore, both Polish and foreign. It is the source of expressive motifs and dance forms (krakoviak, oberek, mazurka). The composition is richly instrumented, melodic, lively, interwoven with familiar childhood melodies of folk origin.
