Euterpe

There's no humorous tone to be found in Six Bagatelles.The cycle opens with the spirited and bold Deciso. Following this come the expressive, splendidly laid-out Molto sostenuto; the concise Presto, i...

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...

Composed in 1948 Quintet Spisak dedicated to Martha Thibault, the mother of his wife, Andrée. This piece is considered one of the best Polish wind quintets of the 20th century is composed of three par...

Romanza is a transcription of the second movement of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz's Concerto in A major Op. 8 for violin and orchestra. This piece was composed between November and December 1902, and dedicate...

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 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...

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...

Nocturne for orchestra was created in 2011, a few months after the death of Henryk Mikolaj Górecki and is dedicated to him. It is a kind of musical contemplation of a nocturnal landscape. The composer...

Spisak finished writing Aubade on March 27, 1942 during his stay in Voiron. In his letter to Tadeusz Kassern he wrote: 'Aubade' has completely different character than my other pieces. The emphasis is...

Nymphs is a series of three miniatures for soprano saxophone (flute, clarinet or violin) and harpsichord, with a clearly defined extramusical content. The piece, inspired by mythology, is intended, th...

I play what I know is a set of the most popular Polish children's songs and a couple of melodies from other countries, which I prepared with beginner guitarists in mind. On a technical level, the mate...

The compositions included in the book stand out from among other contemporary works for solo guitar thanks to their interesting, modern musical language, and they show the author's fascination in elab...

Journey Variations were created in 1999 as a result of the composer's fascination with French impressionism, and in particular with the works of Francis Poulenc. The main theme of the work was 'born'...

Micha? Spisak completed the Three Preludes for flute and soprano, without lyrics in the February of 1953. Although it is only four and a half minutes long, the work was three years in the making. The...

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...