Danse Vive Piano seul PWM (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne)
Piano SKU: BT.PWM381 Composed by Stefan Kisielewski. Classical. Book Only...(+)
Piano
SKU:
BT.PWM381
Composed by
Stefan Kisielewski.
Classical. Book Only.
Composed 1971. 16 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #PWM381.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(BT.PWM381).
Danse vive was
written in 1939 and had
its first performance, as
did most works of this
time, as mentioned by the
composer, in the famous
occupation Art Salon at
Ulica Nowy wiat 27 in
Warsaw, led by Boles aw
Woytowicz. Lech
Miklaszewski made the
first archival recording
of the piece for Polish
Radio in September 1946.
After a long period of
obscurity, Danse Vive
appeared unexpectedly
during the inaugural
concert of the VII
International Festival of
Contemporary Music,
Warsaw Autumn, on 21st
September 1963. W adys aw
K dra, after performing
Tadeusz Szeligowskis
Piano Concerto with the
Symphony Orchestra of
Polish Radio conducted by
Jan Krenz, played
Kisielewskis piece as an
encore. Mieczys aw
Tomaszewski in
conversation with Joanna
Pruszy ska defines Danse
Vive as Toccata 41.
Indeed - the free, almost
improvised form, the
figurative texture and at
the same time the uniform
lines inlaid with
sforzandi syncopated
rhythms (although
changing time signatures
several times) give the
composition such a
nature. But at the same
time Danse Vive can be
described as an
apotheosis of a
Krakowiak, a lively,
Galician dance, whose
full theme at 44 is shown
only once in the piece,
after a thickening,
figurative outset, not at
all reminiscent of folk
melodies. [M. G
siorowska, Kisielewski,
PWM 2011].
Essays
by Tomasz Baranowski,
Andrzej Chwalba, Stephen
Downes, Peter Franklin,
Stefan Keym, Ryszard D.
Golianek, Agata
Mierzejewska, Michael
Murphy, Jadwiga
Paja-Stach, Luca Sala,
Renata Suchowiejko, Emma
Sutton, Andrzej
Tuchowski, Alistair
Wightman, James L.
Zychowicz
In
this volume I aim to
examine the figure of
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz in
the broader sociocultural
context which fostered
his work. The attempt to
contextualize an immense
intellectual patrimony --
despite being restricted
to a tiny number of works
when compared to more
prolific authors,
especially in the context
of the xix and the xx
centuries -- is always a
complex and hazardous
task. My primary
intention in organizing
the volume has been to
explicate Karlowicz the
man as well as Karlowicz
the composer, against the
complex background of the
European
fin-de-siecle. The
various essays aim to
present the reader with
an exhaustive
reconstruction of
Karlowicz's intellectual
work. Karlowicz's oeuvre
offers a broad artistic
portrayal of Poland at
the end of the nineteenth
century as a
fast-evolving country,
politically divided and
filled with
contradictions. Hence the
necessity to investigate
the fin-de-siecle
context with its social
and historical
implications, showing the
influence of the European
cultural milieu on the
composer's poetics and on
his thought. We shall
examine the spectrum of
relationships and
affinities linking
Karlowicz's works to the
Polish cultural world (on
the wave of the rising
'autochthonous'
avant-garde movements)
and to the wider cultural
life pulsating beyond its
borders, with special
reference to German
Wagnerism and Symphonism.
Essentially, we are
striving to define the
uniqueness of his oeuvre,
which -- in relation to
the manifold influences
co-existing in Poland, an
insubstantial nation from
the political viewpoint
and divided along three
socio-cultural fronts --
could be defined as
distinctively Polish, yet
ultimately
European. (Luca
Sala).
Orchestra SKU: HL.215244 The Works of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Volume 11(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.215244
The
Works of Mieczyslaw
Karlowicz Volume 11.
Composed by Mieczystaw
Karlowicz. PWM.
Classical. Hardcover. 140
pages. Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
#11592010. Published by
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne (HL.215244).
12.0x17.0x0.63
inches.
Hardcover
full score. Text in
Polish, German, and
English. This edition of
the works of Mieczyslaw
Karlowicz is based on
critically examined
sources. It includes all
his compositions. The aim
of the edition is to
present the composer's
original text as
authentically as
possible. This is not an
easy task. The source
materials of Karlowicz's
music are very diverse in
nature. Apart from most
of the songs, the
composer prepared for
printing and published in
his lifetime the
following: Serenade for
Strings Op. 2, Prelude
and Fugue Op. 5, Concerto
in A major for Violin and
Orchestra Op. 8,
Returning Waves Op. 9 and
Eternal Songs Op. 10.
Being highly experienced
in writing for a symphony
orchestra, and
knowledgeable in the
modern method of
instrumentation in the
neoromantic style, he
prepared his scores with
great care. The remaining
symphonic poems were not
published before the
composer's death; and the
'Rebirth' Symphony, the
manuscript of which
miraculously survived the
ravages of World War II,
was issued only in 1993,
as part of the present
Complete Works edition.
During this war the
autographs of the most
compositions by
Karlowicz, including all
his symphonic poems
(except for The Sorrowful
Tale), were lost. The
present publication,
therefore, is based as a
rule on the first
editions, compared with
extant autographs or
authorized copies of the
scores. The amendments of
misprints or self-evident
mistakes on the part of
the composer are not
indicated graphically in
the text but referred to
in the Editorial
Notes.
Orchestra (Full Score) SKU: HL.215243 The Works of Mieczyslaw Karlowic...(+)
Orchestra (Full Score)
SKU: HL.215243
The Works of
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz -
Volume VIII. Composed
by Mieczystaw Karlowicz.
PWM. Classical.
Hardcover. 59 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #11596010.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(HL.215243).
9.5x12.25x0.493
inches.
Hardcover
full score. Introductory
texts presented in
English, German, and
Polish. The Lithuanian
Rhapsody (Rapsodia
litewska), Op. 11 is the
third - after Returning
Waves and Eternal Songs -
of the six symphonic
poems by Mieczyslaw
Karlowicz. Composition
was probably taking shape
during the summer months
of 1906 in Warsaw.
Lithuanian Rhapsody
differs significantly
from the other parts of
'programme cycle' which
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz's
symphonic poems may be
regarded as forming. This
is a work based primarily
on thematic material
derived from folk output
(something that would
never again occur in the
composer's brief
biography), compared with
the earlier score of
Eternal Songs or the
later Stanislaw and Anna
Oswiecim it displays much
greater stylistic
independence of the
German music embodied
around the turn of the
twentieth century.