The album Paweł Łukaszewski: Concertos presents masterful performances of concertos and pieces for string orchestra by one of the most valued Polish composers. Four works have been recorded for the first time. Presented concert works are therefore dedicated to three groups of instruments: string, keyboard, and wind with string orchestra. The soloists are outstanding virtuosos: Kamila Wąsik-Janiak, Paweł Gusnar, Michał Knot, Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła and Arkadiusz Krupa. They are accompanied by the Chopin University Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rafał Janiak.

“Łukaszewski – and his students, [...] follow in his footsteps – create a new school. This school does not look back, even though it refers to tradition, nor does it look at the avant-garde, even though it knows it very well. Characteristic features of his compositional technique include, among others: unexpected ex-pressive and dynamic contrasts, with emphasis on musical expression; frequent, rapid transi-tions [...] to different keys, most often minor; sometimes simple solutions, such as ‘ordinary’ cadences, sounding surprisingly obvious; individual solutions in terms of harmony, including characteristic structures, [...] which can be described as ‘Paweł Łukaszewski’s chord’ [...]. The last feature – which seems to be the most noticeable in this music – is the ‘lyrical contem-plationism’. It manifests itself in ubiquitous calm, in a kind of suspension of time; it attracts our attention with its intensity. There is no virtuosity for its own sake, autotelic; there is no show for public adulation; by con-trast, there is an emphasis on depth, on message, on contemplation”. (Marcin T. Łukaszewski)

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