Polish Music

[Dundonnell]

Yes

[JimL]

If you would be so kind, then, as to WeTransfer your copy to me I would appreciate it.

[markniew]

That Gablenz PC is massive!  Any chance of getting the movement titles somewhere?

on other self-burnt CD I have found movements of the PC by Gablenz:
I   Allegro   moderato
II   Andante      
III   Allegro

[JimL]

Thanks!  I'm going to mark them when I get back from Texas.

[markniew]

thank you Atsushi for Serocki.

here we have an example of the "socialist-realistic" piece. I will go through my inventory and find some other such compositions.

[lechner1110]

  Marek, I also thanks for music by JERZY GABLENZ.
  I have his symphonic poems. ("The Pilgrim", and, "Legend of Turbacz" )   Both works are beautiful and rich orchestrated music.
  He is forgotten ' Tone-master ' indeed !

[markniew]

in the Downloads/Polish Music you can find:

KAZIMIERZ  SIKORSKI [/b] (1895-1986)
Symphony no. 3 "Concerto grosso" (1953)

his bio is available on the PWM website:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=2

as well as the list of his works:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=3

[didier2006]

Thank you very much for such interesting music!!
Ludomir Rozycki's piano quintet seems to be dead. Can you repost it?

Thanks

[Didier: you must post replies like this in the appropriate thread in the Discussion board here, NOT in the Downloads board, which is only for posts and replies which have download links. Mark]

[jowcol]

in the Downloads/Polish Music you can find:

KAZIMIERZ  SIKORSKI [/b] (1895-1986)
Symphony no. 3 "Concerto grosso" (1953)

his bio is available on the PWM website:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=2

as well as the list of his works:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szczegoly.php?&Sikorski_Kazimierz&aukcja=0&grupa_p=6&grp=&pwd[6]=364445&sortuj=sattr_83&grupuj=&przedm=283542&strona=3

I'm about to upload his 4th-- I didn't see it on this site when I last checked.

Does anyone have any work by his son, Tomascz (sp?)?  I'm curious-- he supposedly had an interesting approach to minimalism.

[jowcol]

I've posted the Symphony for Strings by Stanisław Skrowaczewski in the downloads section.   I am currently listing him as Polish, although it seems he has been living in the US for the last few decades.



He seems to have left a big enough internet footprint


Wikepedia:
Stanisław Skrowaczewski (pronounced [staˌniswav skrɔvaˈtʃɛfskʲi]; born October 3, 1923) is an internationally known classical conductor and composer. He was born in Lvov (then in Poland, now in Ukraine) and became best known for his work with the Minnesota Orchestra.
As a child, he studied piano and violin; displaying talent on the piano at an early age, he made his public debut playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. Unfortunately, a hand injury ended his piano career.

After World War II, Skrowaczewski became the music director of the Wrocław Philharmonic, then the Katowice Philharmonic, the Kraków Philharmonic and finally the Warsaw National Orchestra. He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1956 he won the Santa Cecilia Competition for Conductors.

At the invitation of George Szell, Skrowaczewski conducted the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1960 he was appointed music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (later renamed the Minnesota Orchestra under his tenure in 1968), a position he held until 1979 when he became conductor laureate. In 1981 the American Composers' Forum commissioned the Clarinet Concerto, which Skrowaczewski wrote for Minnesota Orchestra principal clarinetist Joe Longo, who premiered it in 1981.

Between 1983 and 1992 he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.

Between 1995 and 1997, Skrowaczewski served as artistic advisor to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. From 1984 to 1991, he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, and in 1988, was composer-in-residence for the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer season at Saratoga. He has guest-conducted that orchestra, and many others, all over the world.

His complete set of recordings of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, made with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, has received much acclaim, as has his 2005-06 complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the orchestra. Another noted recording is his Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with soloist Gina Bachauer.

Skrowaczewski's Passacaglia Immaginaria, completed in 1995, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestral Association to honor the memory of Ken and Judy Dayton, it was premiered at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis in 1996.
The Chamber Concerto was commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in memory of Leopold Sipe, their first music director. The Concerto for Orchestra received a Pulitzer nomination in 1999.

He received the Commander Order of the White Eagle, the highest order conferred by the Polish government, as well as the Gold Medal of the Mahler-Bruckner Society, the 1973 Ditson Conductor's Award, and the 1976 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.

He is the father of Paul Sebastien, founder of electronica groups Psykosonik and Basic Pleasure Model.

Dr. Frederick Harris Jr., director of the MIT Wind Ensemble, has written the official biography of Skrowaczewski. [1]


From the  USC Polish Music Center:
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, born on 3 October 1923 in Lwów (now: Lviv, Ukraine), studied piano, conducting and composition at the Lwów Music Academy and at the Cracow Conservatory. In 1946 he took over as conductor the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later he won the Szymanowski Composition Prize and went to Paris where he completed his studies under Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Honegger and Paul Kletzki. He returned to Poland in 1949 and was appointed conductor of the Katowice State Philharmonic Orchestra (until 1954). From 1955 to 1957 he was principal conductor of the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1956 he won first prize in the International Conductors' Competition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. As a result of this success, he was appointed one of the leading conductors of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Skrowaczewski left Poland in 1960 and took over from Antal Dorati at the head of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (which later became the Minnesota Orchestra). He retained this position until 1979 when he resigned in order to concentrate on being a guest conductor and on composing. He took up a permanent position again from 1984 to 1991 as principal conductor of the Orchestra in Manchester. In 1987 and 1988 he was also musical director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Minnesota). It is to him that we owe the first public performances of Jacob Druckman's Incenters (1973), and Krzysztof Penderecki's The Dream of Jacob (1974). His compositions include symphonies, instrumental works, chamber and film music, but he prefers not to conduct them himself, serving instead as a champion of new music. In 1998, his recording of Bruckner's Symphony no. 9 (conducting the Minnesota Orchestra) received the Golden Note Award for the best original recording in its category.

[markniew]

I think that you have correctly classified Skrowaczewski as Polish conductor and composer.
If someone considers him as American the's also OK.

As similar case: Andrzej Panufnik - he was Polish or British composer?
Born and trained in Poland, till early 50s he lived and was active in Poland, he composed here his first symphonic pieces. then for 40 years he stayed and in UK

[Dundonnell]

I think that you have correctly classified Skrowaczewski as Polish conductor and composer.
If someone considers him as American the's also OK.

As similar case: Andrzej Panufnik - he was Polish or British composer?
Born and trained in Poland, till early 50s he lived and was active in Poland, he composed here his first symphonic pieces. then for 40 years he stayed and in UK

Regarding Panufnik, it is a very difficult issue. He certainly took British nationality, was knighted as "Sir Andrzej", and died in Britain but I can quite understand it if the Poles want to reclaim him

[markniew]

Let us consider him as Polish and British composer :-)

I wonder if it is acceptable to upload his Symphony of Peace from early 50s - the piece that he decided to remove from the catalogue of his works.

[Dundonnell]

I hope so

[markniew]

So I will do it soon - old radio recording from that particular time before his leaving