The new release features four compositions: Fantasy for cello and orchestra by Aleksander Tansman (1897-1986), First Cello Concerto by Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), C-67 by Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński (1915-1989) and Cello Concerto by Miłosz Magin (1915-1999).
The orchestra is conducted by its Music Director Andrzej Boreyko, with virtuoso Polish cellist Marcin Zdunik as the soloist.
The CD was produced by the team of Grammy-winning Polish sound engineers Andrzej Sasin and Aleksandra Nagórko.
In an interview for the Polish state news agency PAP, Zdunik said that even though all the four works on the recording were written in the 20th century, they are highly diverse stylistically, with some, like the Bacewicz Concerto, harking back to tradition, and others, like Jabłoński’s C-67, coming close to the avant-garde idiom.
Zdunik also expressed hope that the new CD may help bring unjustly forgotten works such as Magin’s Cello Concerto out of oblivion.
Born in 1987, Zdunik is one of Poland’s leading cellists. He has developed a fine international career since winning the 2007 Lutosławski Cello Competition in Warsaw.
Zdunik has performed at prestigious events such as the BBC Proms Festival in London, the Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano and the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw.
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