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"My Piano" - new CD of Paweł Mykietyn
2014-10-13
A new album of Paweł Mykietyn’s piano music entitled "My Piano" is now released.
The album published by CD Accord brings a set of music in which a considerable role is played by the piano, in turn played by Anna Stempin-Jasnowska. The set is excellent and very representative for Mykietyn’s first, postmodernist creative period and contains a few phonographic premieres as well – Epifora, one of the pieces that set the composer’s career in motion as well as the brilliant Piano Concerto. Epifora is a composition scored for piano and tape, with the instrument’s sound electronically processed, thanks
to which we can hear, for instance, piano glissandos – an unusual effect. This is all perfectly executed. I am less convinced by the 4 Preludes – a work that should become a part of the piano repertory, since it is a ten minute long suite which would work well alongside Debussy’s more sophisticated works, or, for instance,
dodecaphony. Keeping in mind the richness of Grzybowski’s interpretation, it is hard for me to come to terms with the lack of display of the various levels within the first Prelude (and there’s something important going in on each of these levels), as well as the unified sound of the other movements. However, the new CD is sure to provide more monumental playing, and a certain dazzle of quality piano technique allows for satisfaction brought by the unusual expression of recitatives suspended in silence in Prelude Four.
The Shakespeaer Sonnets were originally meant for a male soprano (which lends them a stylish character, and a recording by Jacek Laszczkowski has been published by NINA), however, one might assume that Agata Zubel has received a placet from the composer to perform them, and so her liberated spirited singing is to be enjoyed, especially since it notably reflects the emotions within the music. The Piano Concerto (conducted by Szymon Bywalec), fully joining the great concert tradition, sounds simply brilliant.
[Jakub Puchalski, Music of Paweł Mykietyn, Quarta 3/2014]
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