Euterpe

The most popular Christmas songs have been prepared with the beginner pianist in mind. Most of the carols can be played after a few weeks of learning. Melodies have been harmonised in the traditional...

The handbook has been prepared for children beginning their education at the age of 5 or 6 years. The contents are divided into four parts. The first contains duets for student and teacher prepared us...

This collection was especially created for beginners in piano - for students of Music Schools of the 1st grade. Melodiousness, modern-sounding harmony, new-age mediums of expression (eg. clusters), wh...

Didactic pieces for young musicians play an important role in the works of Romuald Twardowski and his Humoresque fits into this category perfectly. Written in 2010, it operates in the communicative la...

Humoresque for piano was written around 1943, whilst Michał Spisak was staying in Voiron, in France. The work is predominantly a showcase, as can be seen not only at the technical level, but also in t...

The cycle consists of five parts: Preludium, Ostinato, Rondino, Chorał, Postludium and is the first manifestation of Neo-baroque stylization in Spisak’s oeuvre. This reference is not limited to choice...

Blue Note for cello and piano, written in 2007, was commissioned by Evva Mizerska and is dedicated to her. The title of the work, as Ratusińska herself says, "is related to the use of several fragment...

Overture for string quartet was written in 2000. A work in one movement, it has an internal division into three sections, whilst the entirety is bound together by a "vitalistic" leading leitmotif pres...

Sonata for piano, composed in 2010, is dedicated to the composer's sister, the distinguished pianist Anna Górecka. It is a work in one movement; however, an introduction can be discerned, as can the s...

The Pêle-mêle cycle consists of fifteen miniatures composed between 1955 and 1956. The title translates as ‘higgledy-piggledy', ‘pell-mell' or even ‘topsy-turvy', all of which provide a perfect depict...

The idea behind Invitation to the Waltz was to create a collection which would present some of the many and varied manifestations and styles of this enduringly popular musical form. The fourteen piece...

This CD contains all pieces from bestselling guitar publication Invitation to the Waltz recorded here by Michał Nagy