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Szymon Chojnacki - Ignacy Friedman: Complete Songs (2023)

Szymon Chojnacki - Ignacy Friedman: Complete Songs (2023)
  • Title: Ignacy Friedman: Complete Songs
  • Year Of Release: 2023
  • Label: Acte Préalable
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 79:42 min
  • Total Size: 265 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Three Songs Op. 1: No. 1 – Why can I not, at this very moment
02. Three Songs Op. 1: No 2. Watch my verses fly away
03. Three Songs Op. 1: No 3. Pine tree
04. Cracovian Op. 3
05. Three Songs Op. 4: No 1. There was naught between us two
06. Three Songs Op. 4: No 2. Flower by flower
07. Three Songs Op. 4: No 3. Watch my song flying
08. Three Songs Op. 5: No 1. Song of a maiden by the pond
09. Three Songs op. 5: No 2. A shepherd’s aria
10. Three Songs op. 5: No 3. A children’s rhyme
11. Two Songs Op. 17: No 1– Matched young
12. Two Songs Op. 17: No 2– Hanna
13. Two Songs Op. 23: No. 1 – Melancholy
14. Two Songs Op. 23: No. 2 – Tears of sorrow
15. Three Songs Op. 25: No. 1 – Spring morning
16. Three Songs Op. 25: No. 2 – Like the oriole
17. Three Songs Op. 25: No. 3 – From the fields and meadows
18. Three Songs Op. 35: No. 1 – On the road
19. Three Songs Op. 35: No. 2 – Yellow birch-leaves
20. Three Songs Op. 35: No. 3 – Troubadour’s song
21. Five Songs Op. 41: No. 1 – Warning
22. Five Songs Op. 41: No. 2 – In vain you blow over the fields, windy storm
23. Five Songs Op. 41: No. 3 – Windy grove
24. Five Songs Op. 41: No. 4 – Three boats
25. Five Songs Op. 41: No. 5 – Disenchantment
26. Four Songs Op. 55: No. 1 – Marauder’s march
27. Four Songs Op. 55: No. 2 – All of my songs have died now
28. Four Songs Op. 55: No. 3 – Rosary
29. Four Songs Op. 55: No. 4 – Sorrowful
30. Four Poems: No. 1 – Prelude (1905)
31. Four Poems: No. 2 – O come... (1905)
32. Four Poems: No. 3 – Excerpt from ‘Casimir the Great’ (1905)
33. Four Poems: No. 4 – In an Eden-like, strange dream (1905)
34. Three Songs: No. 1 – Over dew (1910)
35. Three Songs: No. 2 – Disenchantment (1910)
36. Three Songs: No. 3 – Prelude (1910)
37. Folk song (1917)

Ignacy Friedman (1882-1948) est resté dans l’histoire de la musique comme l’immense pianiste polonais dont les interprétations de Chopin mais aussi de Ravel, Albéniz ou Bartok entre autres, ont fait date. Ici c’est l’intégrale des mélodies polonaises de Friedman que présentent en première mondiale ses compatriotes, le bariton-basse Szymon Chojnacki et le pianiste Jakub Tchorzewski, et pour six titres la soprano turque Sen Acar. Autant le dire tout de suite ce disque est une réussite à tous points de vue : Les œuvres, les interprètes et la qualité de l’enregistrement. Classées dans l’ordre chronologique de composition, les mélodies dès l’op. 1 révèlent une osmose parfaite entre la voix et le piano accompagnant et l’on ressent chez Ignacy Friedman la filiation évidente avec Chopin ou Schubert, mais aussi ces tonalités slaves si particulières de couleurs harmoniques et d’accents linguistiques qui convoquent de toute évidence Dvorák. Le baryton-basse Szymon Chojnacki, plus basse que baryton, développe une voix ronde, chaleureuse, expressive, longue, corsée, confondante de naturel qui distingue – même si comme moi vous ne comprenez pas un mot de polonais - un conteur exemplaire et nous embarque dans un monde de contrastes, porté par le romanesque pianiste Jakub Tchorzewski au jeu soucieux des moindres inflexions de voix de son partenaire ; du plus détimbré des pianissimo aux plus dense des forte, de la plus sombre des ballades aux plus étranges rêves en passant par la plus suave des Krakowiak… Tout un monde lointain, tout un chant perdu qui vient vous empoigner là où on ne si attend pas ! Alors, laissez-vous porter… (Florestan de Marucaverde)

Unbeknownst to many, Friedman was also a composer, the author of over 100 piano, chamber and vocal pieces, and thus he had the privilege of viewing music from the perspective of both performer and creator. Many recordings of this piano prodigy have survived, allowing modern listeners to appreciate his style and mastery (a comprehensive six-CD re-mastered edition has recently been released). Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of his own works, which we know only from a few recordings of selected piano pieces. Although he did perform and record hundreds of compositions by other composers, made numerous transcriptions and editions, his personal chamber and vocal works have been forgotten. What you are holding is the first recording of Ignacy Friedman’s songs for solo voice with piano, a world phonographic premier.


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