Chamber music

I’ve had the pleasure of making music with outstanding chamber musicians, whom I’d like to thank for everything I’ve learned from them. I will mention here my most important stage companions in the order in which they appeared in my life.

Janusz Grzelązka – with him I began my first serious concert performances, made my first recordings for the Polish Radio and Television. Ewa Kupiec – many joint concerts and first prize at the ARD competition in Munich in the cello-piano duet category, the first CD recordings. Waldemar Malicki – extraordinary musical intelligence and wit. Kaja Danczowska – rare musical intuition and humility with regard to her mission. Piotr Anderszewski – unique artist. Andrzej Ratusiński – rare pianistic “grit”. Janusz Olejniczak – Chopinian delicacy and intelligence. Marek Moś – outstanding man and artist, versatility and profound understanding of art and life. Ewa Pobłocka – classically harmonious artist with rare responsibility for every note. Håkan Rosengren – clarinettist of great stature. Peter Nagy – the most intelligent musician I have ever met. Tanja Becker-Bender – embodiment of the great German performing tradition. Kuba Jakowicz – chamber musician of one’s dreams, which was not so obvious at the beginning of his brilliant career. Jan Krzysztof Broja – pianist of unlimited capabilities and very modern performance aesthetics.

Present... chamber music in a duet

With Jan Krzysztof Broja, one of the most creative Polish pianists of his generation.

Our recitals have featured e.g.:

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2,
Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in A major Op. 100,
Fryderyk Chopin’s Sonata in G minor Op. 65,
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Sonata in G minor Op. 19,
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata in G minor Op. 40,
Karol Szymanowski’s Sonata in D minor Op. 9,
Witold Lutosławski’s Grave.

Chamber repertoire, works by…

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Antoni Szałowski
Jerzy Bauer

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All chamber works by Fryderyk Chopin performed with Kuba Jakowicz. CD recording for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute on a historical Erard piano from 1846.

Chamber repertoire, works by…

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Antoni Szałowski
Jerzy Bauer

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All chamber works by Fryderyk Chopin performed with Kuba Jakowicz. CD recording for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute on a historical Erard piano from 1846.

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen wrote Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps when he was a prisoner of war in Stalag 8A in Görlitz (Zgorzelec). The work was premiered in the camp on 15 January 1941 by musicians imprisoned together with the composer, with Olivier Messiaen playing the piano. The Quartet for the End of Time is a work with apocalyptic and religious themes – a unique masterpiece of 20th-century chamber music.

Olivier Messiaen

“Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps”

I. Liturgie de crystal /Crystal liturgy/

II. Vocalise, pour l`Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
/Vocalise for the Angel who announces the end of time/

III. Abîmie des oiseaux /Abyss of birds/

IV. Interméde /Interlude/

V. Louange á l`Eternité de Jésus /Praise to the eternity of Jesus/

VI. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
/Dance of fury for the seven trumpets/

VII. Fouillis d`arcs-en-ciel, pour l`Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
/Tangle of rainbows for the Angle who announces the end of time/

VIII. Louange a l`Immortalité de Jésus /Praise to the immortality of Jesus/

Performers

Marek Moś – violin
Håkan Rosengren – clarinet
Andrzej Bauer – cello
Janusz Olejniczak – piano

“A major event was a brilliant performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for violin, clarinet, cello and piano in a red-lit chapter house of the Dominican Monastery. (…) Critics and journalists awarded an honourable mention for an outstanding performance of Quartet for the End of Time to Marek Moś, Håkan Rosengren, Andrzej Bauer and Janusz Olejniczak.”

Gabriela Stanek-Peszkowska
Ruch Muzyczny no 14, 13 July 1997

Johannes Brahms

Summer 1886 in Thun

Sonata in F major Op. 99 for piano and violin

Sonata in A major Op. 100 for piano and violin

Trio in C minor Op. 101 for piano, violin and cello

A concert of music by Johannes Brahms, the most prominent composer of late German Romanticism, is a thematic event. It features three compositions written by Brahms during one summer stay in Thun, a picturesque Swiss spa. The programme contains masterpieces of chamber music, and is very interesting for music lovers, since it presents three great, very diverse works written within a short time and offers the listeners a chance to see the inspiration and creative invention of the great composer.

Performers