Różycki Violin Concerto etc

[Alan Howe]

...forthcoming from cpo:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/ludomir-rozycki-violinkonzert-op-70/hnum/10515815

[CelesteCadenza]

This 2021 cpo release appears to be an exact reissue of the 2001 recording of the concerto issued on Acte Prealable AP0219 with identical violin and piano couplings recorded 2010:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Apr/Rozycki_VC_AP0219.htm
I the meantime, Janusz Wawrowski's edition of the Concerto appeared on Warner earlier in 2021, coupled with the Tchaikovsky concerto:
https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/phoenix

Some of this has been discussed in a related thread:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,7541.msg79204.html#msg79204

[Alan Howe]

Well spotted! I didn't know that cpo licensed recordings from other labels.

[eschiss1]

I've seen them and SWR2(?) release the same material from time to time (e.g. sonatas by Reinecke), but that may not be the same thing. But I do think that they do sometimes reissue older recordings for at least part of their CDs, e.g. their issue of Mendelssohn's Heimkehr in 1997 is, according to Worldcat, a digital remaster of a recording first released in 1978 on LP by Electrola.

[semloh]

Violin Concerto, Op 70(a). Deux Mélodies, Op 5(b). Deux Nocturnes, Op 30b. Pan Twardowski, Op 45 – excs(c)
Ewelina Nowicka vn cMichał Krężlewski, bPola Lazar pf, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice / Zygmunt Rychert
CPO F CPO555 421-2 (50' • DDD)
Recorded a2001, bc2010

Rózycki reveals himself to be a composer of genuine lyrical gifts, a writer of memorable melodies and, assuming that Rychert has followed his cues, a magical orchestrator. There is both beauty and huge dramatic power in the opening Andante; the following Allegro deciso initially promises something blandly triumphalistic but quickly moves into more adventurous territory, always with a nostalgic tinge. Ewelina Nowicka, who is a composer as well as a violinist, is a truly superb soloist, with the richest of tones and a genuine lyrical gift... An excellent disc, which I really hope will spark a revival of interest in Rózycki's work. Ivan Moody

Excerpt from a very positive review in the current issue of GRAMOPHONE, January 2022