Bacewicz: Piano Works Peter Jablonski

• Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 - 1969): Krakowiak koncertowy
• 1 Bacewicz: Krakowiak koncertowy 06:41
• 10 Concert Etudes for Piano:
• 2 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 1, Allegro non troppo 02:35
• 3 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 2, Vivace 01:42
• 4 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 3, Allegretto 02:34
• 5 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 4, — 01:35
• 6 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 5, Andante 03:25
• 7 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 6, — 02:06
• 8 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 7, Giocoso 01:59
• 9 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 8, — 03:22
• 10 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 9, Presto 01:36
• 11 Bacewicz: 10 Concert Etudes for Piano: No. 10, Allegro 01:54
• 2 Etudes in Double Notes:
• 12 Bacewicz: 2 Etudes in Double Notes: No. 1, Moderato 03:21
• 13 Bacewicz: 2 Etudes in Double Notes: No. 2, Vivace 02:48
• Piano Sonata No. 1:
• 14 Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 1: I. Moderato 05:43
• 15 Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 1: II. Andante sostenuto 04:28
• 16 Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 1: III. Scherzo. Molto allegro 03:12
• 17 Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Finale. Molto allegro 04:47
• Piano Sonata No. 2:
• 18 Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2: I. Maestoso - Agitato 06:47
• 19 Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2: II. Largo 07:06
• 20 Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Toccata. Vivo 03:36
• Total Runtime 01:11:17

Info for Bacewicz: Piano Works

This album is pianist Peter Jablonski’s third solo album for the Ondine label. In this album Jablonski represents Grazyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) dazzling piano etudes and piano sonatas which are hardly known outside of her native Poland. Jablonski’s piano albums have received an enthusiastic response and his previous album release received Editor’s Choice from the Gramophone magazine.

Peter Jablonski, piano

Peter Jablonski
is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name a few.

He has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. Hailed an ‘unconventional virtuoso’ (Present Arts), during his three-decade-long career he developed a diverse repertoire that includes works by Barber, Gershwin, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Copland, Stenhammar, with most recent additions of such Scandinavian and European composers as Valborg Aulin, Elfrida Andrée, Laura Netzel, Johanna Müller-Hermann, and Alexey Stanchinsky.

He worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt, and had a number of works composed for, and dedicated to him, including Wojciech Kilar’s Piano Concerto, for which he won the Orpheus award for the world premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. He remains a supporter of today’s composers and regularly gives world premieres of new works, together with those that have been neglected by music history.

Jablonski’s extensive discography includes recordings he has made for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Altara, Octavia, and Ondine labels. He received numerous awards for his recordings, which include the Edison award for best concerto recording of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Lutoslawski’s Paganini Rhapsody with Ashkenazy and RPO for Decca. He was presented with the Grammophone Classical Music Award for his Deutsche Grammophone recording of works by Cécile Chaminade with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg.

Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. He is also the winner of a prestigious prize Svenskar i Världen (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren.

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