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Saturday, June 22, 2019

Mieczysław Karłowicz - Symphonic Poems Vol. 1 (Antoni Wit)


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Composer: Mieczysław Karłowicz
  1. Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecimowie, Op. 12
  2. Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11
  3. Episode at a Masquerade, Op. 14 (completed by Fitelberg)

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit, conductor

Date: 2008
Label: Naxos
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570452

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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10 / SOUND QUALITY: 10

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz’s six symphonic poems feature gobs of Straussian sonority in loosely organized forms, and while Antoni Wit’s performances are actually a touch slower than the competition on Chandos, the playing of the Warsaw Philharmonic is so much more atmospheric, richly textured, and knowing than that of the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda that the music is transformed. In classic Romantic fashion, the programmatic basis of all of this music is darkly tragic (for example, Stanislaw and Anna have an incestuous love affair and the story naturally ends in death). Wit clearly understands the idiom and milks the music for all it’s worth. Thus, the celebratory sequences in Episode at a Masquerade have an extra degree of feverish brilliance, and the repetitious opening of Lithuanian Rhapsody is spellbinding rather than merely monotonous–in short, these forces make the best possible case for Karlowicz.

This is a young man’s music–he was only in his early 30s when he died in 1909–full of self-indulgent excess; but it’s also brimming with promising talent. This sumptuously engineered production reminds us of just what a loss his early death represented for 20th-century Polish music, while allowing us to savor his all too meager legacy. [10/23/2008]

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/karlowicz-symphonic-poems-vol-1
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Oct08/Karlowicz_8570452.htm
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Nov08/Karlowicz_8570452.htm
http://www.allmusic.com/album/mieczyslaw-karlowicz-symphonic-poems-vol-1-mw0001412650
http://www.amazon.com/Symphonic-Poems-1-Mieczyslaw-Karlowicz/dp/B001BLR7DA

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Mieczysław Karłowicz (11 December 1876 – 8 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. Karłowicz studied in Warsaw and Berlin, and studied conducting with Arthur Nikisch. Karłowicz's music is of a late Romantic character with influences of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner. His music inhabits a primary place in the history of Polish music between Frédéric Chopin and Karol Szymanowski. Among his works are a Symphony in E minor (Rebirth, Op. 7), a Violin Concerto in A major (Op. 8), several tone poems, and a number of songs for voice and piano. Karłowicz died at the age of 32 in an avalanche while skiing.

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Antoni Wit (born February 7, 1944 in Kraków) is a Polish conductor. He studied with Henryk Czyż, Krzysztof Penderecki and Nadia Boulanger. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and many of them with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, of which he managed and was artistic director from 1983 to 2000. Since year 2002 he has been music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Wit specializes in the works of Polish composers such as Henryk Gorecki, Witold Lutosławski, Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Wit

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