Felix Borowski 1872-1956

[pianoconcerto]

Video of the Borowski pc is now on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ92pMJTOVM

[Alan Howe]

Marvellous - thank you!

Hyperion should get hold of Messrs Glover and Klein and get this lovely post-Rachmaninovian piece recorded.

[Gareth Vaughan]

It's great, isn't it? So glad you like it.

[Recorddude]

Glad you liked the Borowski concerto. It took four years (the pandemic got in the way) to get it performed and recorded. I've been trying to contact Hyperion about recording it with this pianist but having trouble contacting an actual person there.I've heard a rumor that their piano concerto series might be in trouble.

[Maury]

I had a listen to the Borowski PC and I agree that this is worthy of being a standard repertoire work. Thanks to the Saratoga Sym and Daniel Glover for a convincing performance. The orchestra is better than I expected. The recording quality is also excellent.

[Gareth Vaughan]

It is extremely difficult to get hold of someone at Hyperion now that Simon Perry has sold out to Universal. I used to be able to pick up the phone and talk directly to Simon but now it is quite hopeless. I don't think the PC series is in trouble  except for the label being owned by Universal which is always trouble for innovation, interesting repertoire and intelligent people genuinely interested in music!

[Maury]

I don't think the PC series is in trouble  except for the label being owned by Universal which is always trouble for innovation, interesting repertoire and intelligent people genuinely interested in music!

Mr Vaughan, the issue is that with declining CD sales and even faster declining digital downloads the brontosaurus labels find it much easier to repackage legacy recordings in various big boxes. In addition the revenue from CDs is much less than for vinyl which explains why there are numerous vinyl issues in pop and now astoundingly enough in classical. The dino labels are interested in money not art. So I am amazed now only when someone actually records and issues new CDs not the reverse.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Oh yes, that is all very true. Doesn't mean to say one has to like it - but that's the way of the world, I suppose. (Though I must say I am surprised by the resurgence in vinyl - for me that's quite an odd development.)

[Alan Howe]

Agreed, Gareth. The future of Hyperion's RPC series doesn't look all that bright to me. As for the RVC and RCC series, well they look dead to me...

[Maury]

I think we are facing a near future where we are going to have to crowdsource such works as the Borowski PC on CD at least in part.

[Recorddude]

Here is Felix Borowski's Ecce Homo performed by the Phil Orch under Ormandy

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e0rq2ohb209b9aqsnxqdb/19-BOROWSKIECCEHOMO1.mp3?rlkey=ncjkfs9e6rxr79e86ptusyqpc&st=iug6ogn9&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cvulb4wwynetma2xd3xr5/20-BOROWSKIECCEHOMO2.mp3?rlkey=k2bptxzir19qcdb0dz0vr821x&st=tny0c9n2&dl=0