Ludomir Różycki (18 September 1883 Warsaw - 1 January 1953 Katowice) was a Polish composer and conductor. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as Young Poland, the intention of which was to invigorate the musical culture of their generation in their mother country.
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Piano Quintet in C minor Op 35 (1913)
Mein lieben Freunden L. Kreutzer, L van Laar, D. Hait, G. Kutschka, M. Loewensohn
1. Lento - Allegro moderato (0:00)
2. Adagio (13:08)
3. Allegro giocoso (26:39)
Jonathan Plowright, piano and the Szymanowski Quartet
Live recording
Różycki began the Piano Quintet while on a visit to Paris in the summer of 1913, and he completed it in Berlin a few months later. It illustrates the separateness of the very different musical worlds that co-existed in Europe. There is no hint of the latest French and Russian music that had dazzled Paris a matter of weeks before his visit (Debussy’s Jeux and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring had been premiered by the Ballets russes in May). Nor is there any sign that Różycki was intent on exploring exotic soundworlds, as Szymanowski had done in his recent Love Songs of Hafiz. What he did share with Szymanowski in the 1900s was an immersion in the late-Romantic idioms of Richard Strauss and Reger, which in the Piano Quintet are folded in with a musical language inherited from earlier quintets, such as those by Franck and Zarębski.
Różycki’s quintet was first championed by a Berlin chamber group led by the cellist Marix Loewensohn, with the pianist Leonid Kreutzer. It was subsequently performed in the Berlin Secessionists’ building at Christmas 1915 during a concert devoted solely to Różycki. The performance of his String Quartet (led by the renowned violinist Carl Flesch) was followed by excerpts from his forthcoming opera Eros and Psyche and by two works involving the piano-some of his new Polish Dances for piano solo and the Piano Quintet. The pianist was none other than Ignacy Friedman, to whom Różycki dedicated the Polish Dances.
24 июл 2024
