The composition was commissioned by Nadia Boulanger for the purpose of a course taught by Yehudi Menuhin in 1954 in Fontainebleau. At the same time, the composer created a piano reduction. It is worth...
A new understanding of the quartet form as a compact, lively, energetically pulsating organism is reflected in the score - the music is notated either using the traditional bar system or by approximat...
Intermezzo was commissioned by Polish Radio's Programme 2 in 1996. S?awi?ski views this, along with various other works, such as Memorial for mezzo-soprano, retuned piano and tape, Ballad for six perc...
This is the first edition of Christoph Schimpke's Partita in B-Flat major ever to be printed. The manuscript which provided the source material is held by the Wroc?aw University Library. A classical p...
Quintet was written in Los Angeles in 1971 at the request of the composition students whom Maciejewski had jokingly described as 'hopelessly ensnared in a world of twelve notes'. Quintet was intended...
This piece was written in 2000, whilst Weronika Ratusinska was a student at the Academy of Music in Warszawa. Despite their coincidence, the title of the composition does not refer to Fellini's film,...
Improvvisazione is arranged in the form of consecutive and contrasting segments of musical narrative: Moderato, Lento, Allegro, Andante, Allegro, Tranquillo, Allegro. The work combines an improvisatio...
The Concerto was created in Paris between 1946 and 1947. Spisak's interest in Baroque and early Classical works can be observed not only in the nomenclature of the movements, Toccata, Passacaglia and...
