Pawlak/zgolka/rogers/thiel - Elsner - Chamber Works [CD]

The vast majority of Jozef Elsner's chamber pieces were written during his time in Lviv (1792-1799) or in his first years in Warsaw (1799-1805). They are works by a young composer, clearly and unequivocally rooted in the Viennese style of Mozart's times despite intriguing references to the 'Polish style'. From that group, this disc includes two chamber works with piano: the Trio in B flat major, published in Vienna in 1798 as a Grande Sonate, and the Quartet in E flat major, written in 1804 or 1805 and crowning this part of the composer's oeuvre. (...) Jozef Elsner's compositions featured on this disc were recorded on historical instruments in the tuning a1=430 Hz. They include an Erard piano from 1858 and a Charles Francois Gand violin from 1846 awarded to Henryk Wieniawski for graduating from the Paris Conservatoire with outstanding achievements. The Parisian context, symbolically indicated by these instruments, is strongly associated with the end of Elsner's peak period as a composer of chamber music, just as Vienna was associated with its beginning. (...) The repertoire recorded on this album allows us to see different sides of Jozef Elsner. Two pieces show him as a student of Viennese chamber music from Mozart's time, the polonaise diptych sums up more than two decades of work as the father of the 'Polish style', and at the end he reveals himself to us as the composer of the enigmatic Chaconne. Let us add that most of these works remind us of Elsner's proficiency on the violin - the instrument that was undoubtedly closest to his heart. Certainly difficult to discern here, meanwhile, are the beginnings of Romanticism, which was already emerging in the works of German composers and even students of Elsner himself. Yet that is not due to this particular choice of repertoire. Indeed, a search for the Romantic in Elsner often leads to misunderstandings that are painful and unfair to the composer. He shows himself to best effect in his true role, as a talented epigone of Classicism and codifier of the pre-Chopin polonaise. Jakub Chachulski (tranls. Anna Marks)

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5902176503437
• Release Date: May 02, 2025

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