Performers
- Aka Duo
- Seina Matsuoka violin
- Yuto Kiguchi piano
Programme
Maurycy Moszkowski 4 Morceaux for violin and piano, Op. 82 [19′]
Les Nymphes
Caprice
Mélodie
Humoresque
Aleksander Tansman Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D major [20’]
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Mélodie slave: Andante espressivo
III. Intermezzo scherzando: Presto possibile
IV. Finale: Allegro giusto
Miłosz Magin Andante for violin and piano [7’]
Mieczysław Weinberg Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes for violin and piano, Op. 47 No. 3 [11’]
Concert description
Emigration, exile or refugeeism were not uncommon among Polish artists. Annexations, wars, communism, the search for a better life or a more favourable environment for creativity – drove musicians in different directions. The works of many of them, due to, for example, the prosaic absence of authors in Poland, important before the times of globalization, were often discovered quite late. Composers were strongly attracted to cosmopolitan, artistic Paris, especially in the first half of the 20th century. As late as the end of the 19th century, to the City of Light moved Moritz Moszkowski – a pianist and author of music highly regarded in his time, especially virtuoso and salon music, of which 4 Morceaux is a good example. One might think that France was Alexander Tansman’s destiny from birth – his parents loved the country so much that Polish and French were spoken in their home, and the composer, with full conviction – and exquisite results! – inscribed his work in the triumphant Parisian interwar neoclassicism. Tansman’s music gained immense popularity in the West during his lifetime, but was not well received in Poland – neither politically nor stylistically. A somewhat similar path – from Łódź to Paris – was taken by Miłosz Magin, an award-winning pianist who has recently been rediscovered as a composer. Quite different and much more painful, marked among other things by the death of his family, was the wandering of Mieczysław Wajnberg, whose war tragedy exiled him to the East, to the USSR.
– Dominika Micał (pisanezesluchu.pl)