Józef Elsner
    Sonata in F major Op.10 No 1 for Piano and Violin
Franciszek Lessel
    Grand Trio Op.4 in E fat major for Piano , Clarine and Horn


It has so often happened in the history of poilish culture that the invaluable service dedicated to it has been given by foreigners who had become Poles by choice. These [peaple loved and worked in Poland without any regard for their roots, often butchering the lanquqge ( it would have been far easier to speak in their own native tonques)...
Józef Elsner [...] is known most af all as a teacher of Fryderyk Chopin, and is the author of an impressive amount of works: over 20 operas, 24 Latin masses, 4 oratorios, 44 cantatas, and about 100 solo songs, of which the majority have never been performed, or have never been published. The Sonatas for Piano and Violin Op. 10 [...] were penned around 1798, and were lucky to have been published....
The second work presented in this recording, the Grand Trio Op.4 for Piano, Clarinet and Horn , was also authored by a composer who chose Poland to be his homeland [Franciszek Lessel]...The work does not find itself in any of the Lessel`s compositional lists, even though it was published twice: in ca.1806 in Vienna and after 196 years, in Kraków. It has never before been recorded, so this CD contains its phonographic premiere....

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