Re: Zarebski Piano Quintet

[jrs...@aol.com]

Wayne Reimer wrote:
> So there I was, listening to the archived BBC3 "Through the Night"
> program for last Thursday, the 13th, and this wonderful g minor piano
> quintet by a composer previously unknown to me, Juliusz Zarebski, was
> played. Wow!! What a great piece! It dates from 1885, the year he
> died at age 31 (total bummer; judging from this music, he was very fine
> talent that got snuffed way way too early).
>
> It looks like there are no recordings in print at the moment, but there
> have been at least three on CD. Has anyone heard any of these, and can
> you offer any recommendations as to whether any of them are worth
> tracking down?
>
> I'd strongly urge anyone who hasn't heard this piece and who has an
> interest in the byways of Romantic chamber music to give it a listen on
> the BBC3. Its a big, 30-odd minute, four-movement work that's quite
> passionate and inventive; very attractive stuff that really should get
> more exposure. Certainly it would be a nice alternative to some of the
> more often heard quintets of the era, say like the Franck. The players
> are the Silesian Quartet with Pawel Kowalski on piano. I don't know
> anything about these folks, but they sound thoroughly committed in this
> rather exciting performance, even if not totally well-groomed. It
> starts 1 hour and 58 minutes into the show (you can navigate to a point
> close to the beginning of it by using the advance buttons - if you give
> 7 clicks of the 15-minute button and 2 of the 5-minute button
> immediately upon opening the file, you will land in the last few
> minutes of a performance of some amusing John Cage choral music, and
> then it's this piece).
>
> wr

It's a wonderful quintet, but very little Zarebski hasa been recorded.
The link I posted a year ago still offers some interesting info:

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/printtranscript.asp?EventId=285

--Jeff

[Edward Jasiewicz]

There is a very lovely Lullaby, opus 22, by this composer that has been
recorded by pianist Elzbieta Wiedner-Zajac and released on the Dorian label
some years ago along with his less interesting Tarantelle, opus 25 and
Grande Polonaise in F-sharp Major, opus 6. (Disc also includes Szymanowski's
Masques, Mazurkas, and Preludes, as well as Lutoslawski's Bucolics.)

Link: http://www.dorian.com/dorian/80121s.htm

-Ed

"Wayne Reimer" <wrdslremovethis濃pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1eab89aed...@news.sf.sbcglobal.net...

> So there I was, listening to the archived BBC3 "Through the Night"
> program for last Thursday, the 13th, and this wonderful g minor piano
> quintet by a composer previously unknown to me, Juliusz Zarebski, was
> played. Wow!! What a great piece! It dates from 1885, the year he
> died at age 31 (total bummer; judging from this music, he was very fine

> talent that got snuffed way way too early). ...

[MrT]

Thank you, Wayne. It's a fine piece. I have some other recordings by
the Silesian quartet; they're not bad at all.

Best,

MrT

[jrs...@aol.com]

Wayne Reimer wrote:
> > In article <1145199396.7...@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, jrs...@aol.com says...
> >
> <...>

> >
> > It's a wonderful quintet, but very little Zarebski hasa been recorded.
> > The link I posted a year ago still offers some interesting info:
> >
> > http://www.gresham.ac.uk/printtranscript.asp?EventId=285
> >

> Thanks, I missed that the first time around - interesting stuff.
>
> FWIW - a library database search has produced evidence of recordings of
> the quintet by: the Varsovia Quartet with Malicki on piano on Pavane;
> by an un-named group of Polish musicians on Oympia; a Muza LP from the
> 1960s by the Kwintet Warszawski (which apparently includes the pianist
> Szpilman who was the subject of "The Pianist" film); and one by the
> Quatour Wilanow with Szabolcs Esztényi on piano on Accord (this CD also
> includes the piano set Roses and Thorns).

The musicians on the Olympia recording are Jerzy Witkowski, piano; Ewa
Marczyk and Marek Bojarski, violins; Marek Marczyk, viola; and Zbigniew
Krzyminski, cello. The performance is quite good (as far as I can tell)
and the couplings (pieces by Tansman and Twardowski) are worthwhile, if
I recall correctly.

The Wilanow is also a good group--I have some Krzysztof Meyer quartets
with them.

--Jeff

[Don Petter]

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>> It's a wonderful quintet, but very little Zarebski hasa been recorded.
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>wr

I have the Maliki/Varsovia version on Pavane (ADW 7218), and would say
it seems a very worthwhile performance of a likeable late romantic
work. Beware, however, of the coupling unless you are also in tune
with a much more modern idiom. The two quartets of Joanna Bruzdowicz
are of a hundred years later (1983 & 1988 versus 1885) and certainly
sound it!

Don.