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MAURIZIO POLLINI - CHOPIN - NOCTURNES

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In Loving Memory, Mrs. Ivy Haywood ( May 26, 1932 - February 25, 2016 ) 🌹

Scherzo No.2 In B Flat Minor, Op.31 

By Composer Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin

Tamás Vásáry, Pianist

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Hello, everyone! Just one day into the latest installment of my Female Composers series, and I’m already running late!

Many apologies, plus a little explanation, for those who don’t know (which may be everyone), in addition to being a singing teacher and opera director, I’m also an author. I’ve been working on a new book, and I am running on a (self-imposed) deadline for delivering it to my agent, which means I’m constantly in book brain and writing against the clock. I’m a pretty spacey person in the calmest of times, and when I’m immersed like this, I’m even worse. So, again, apologies! And I promise to offer up a double post sometime later this week.

And with that out of the way, let’s get into it! For those of us who are still hooked on mid-20th-century music, my treat for you today comes from Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz. A student at the Warsaw Conservatory and later one of the scores of composers at the time who spent time in Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, Bacewicz continued to compose and hold underground concerts even during World War II. This piece, her Concerto for String Orchestra, the first movement of which is played here by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, was written in 1948, several years after the Warsaw Uprising, when she and her family fled the city, ultimately returning to her hometown of Łódź.

This is a thrilling, chaotic Allegro, which feels very appropriate to the beginning of the series this week. Please enjoy, and look for more to come! - Melinda Beasi

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Karol Szymanowski

( 6 October 1882 - 29 March 1937 )

Happy Birthday, Karol!

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Don’t look at me, my mom was the one who said I should post this

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2 Mazurkas, BI 16

I. Mazurka In G Major II. Mazurka In B-Flat Major

By Composer Fryderyk Chopin

Idil Biret, Pianist

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🇵🇱 16 września 1800 roku w Koryciskach koło Radomia przyszedł na świat Józef Nowakowski, pianista, kompozytor i pedagog, bliski przyjaciel Fryderyka Chopina. Początkowo uczył się gry na puzonie, rogu i fortepianie w klasztorze cystersów w Wąchocku. W latach 1821-1826 był studentem Konserwatorium Warszawskiego, gdzie uczył się kompozycji u Józefa Elsnera i gry na fortepianie u Wilhelma Würfela. Tam też zaprzyjaźnił się z Chopinem. Przyjaźń tych kompozytorów trwała długie lata. W 1833 roku Nowakowski podróżował po Niemczech, Włoszech i Francji. Kilkakrotnie (1838, 1841, 1846-47) przebywał w Paryżu, gdzie z pomocą Chopina, wydał zadedykowane mu etiudy. W 1836 roku razem z Chopinem złożył wizytę Robertowi Schumannowi w Lipsku. Komponował głównie muzykę fortepianową oraz pieśni, muzykę kameralną i symfoniczną. Napisał też podręcznik do gry na fortepianie. Pod koniec życia był sparaliżowany. Zmarł w 1865 roku w Warszawie.

🇬🇧 Józef Nowakowski, pianist, composer and teacher, was born on 16 September 1800 in Koryciska, near Radom. He was Fryderyk Chopin’s close friend. As a young man, he studied trombone, horn and piano playing in the cistercian abbey in Wąchock. From 1821 to 1826, he studied in Warsaw Conservatory: composition with Józef Elsner and piano playing with Wilhelm Würfel. There he became friends with Fryderyk Chopin. In 1833, Nowakowski travelled across the Germany, Italy and France. He visited Paris for several times (1838, 1841, 1846-47). There (with Chopin’s help) he published his set of piano etudes, dedicated to Chopin. In 1836, he and Chopin visited Robert Schumann in Leipzig. He wrote mainly piano music, and also songs, chamber and symphonic music. He wrote popular book about piano playing. He suffered from paralysis at the end of his life and died in Warsaw in 1865.

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Mazurka For Violin And Piano, No.1, Op.26

By Composer Aleksander Zarzycki

Performed By Hans Kalafusz (Violin) And Klaus von Wildemann (Piano)

Artwork: “Strings And Things (Still Life)” By Artist Hanne Lore Koehler