MIECZYSŁAW KARŁOWICZ [1876-1906]
Violin Concerto in A major Op.8 ,Eternal Songs Op.10

SACD&CD [Hybrid]

A work with a cheerful disposition, sometimes with a youthful and optimistic character, the Violin Concerto indeed demonstrates Karlowicz`s full grasp of violin technique. The vigorous virtuoso episodes abound in figurations,fast-tempo trills,multiple stops and sequences in high register are placed side by side with cantilena of a Slavonic flavour[...]. In terms of artistic merit, Karłowicz`s Violin Concerto, increasingly popular these days, fully equals the concertos of Brahms, Tchaikovsky or Mendelssohn. In Polish violin literature, it constitutes a link between the virtuoso concertos of Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski and those by 20th century composers......
In all likelihood the idea for the symphonic poem Eternal Songs came to Karłowicz during his solitary excursion in the Tatra Mountains. For the Tatras could be justly called the composer`s "spiritual homeland", a place where he did not sense his loneliness but relished the wonderful feeling of solitude that was filled with the contemplation of nature and the reflection on the eternal mysteries of death, love and existence.......

Marek Wieroński Producer