tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92174160896735898042026-09-27T08:32:01.633+02:00Music is the BestAs heard from vinyl & described by Krzysztof D. SzatrawskiKrzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.comBlogger388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-45754515073854498772026-01-27T14:57:00.065+01:002026-07-13T15:53:58.265+02:00Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Zauberflöte
THE 270th ANNIVERSARY OF W. A. MOZART’S BIRTH
★★★★★
Mozart's operatic works as a collection occupy a privileged place in the history of the genre. The composer's genius was fully reflected here, just as in his symphonies, concertos, chamber works, and religious music. Over the course of his creative life, the composer changed his attitude to existing operatic forms, combining Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-52849255024703849102026-01-24T14:54:00.024+01:002026-07-13T15:27:41.290+02:00E. T. A. Hoffmann – Die lustigen Musikanten
THE 250th ANNIVERSARY OF E. T. A. HOFFMANN’S BIRTH
★★★★✰
Writer, jurist, and... forgotten composer – E.T.A. Hoffmann chased musical genius his entire life, leaving behind a trail of lost scores and revolutionary ideas that shaped early Romanticism. Through the exploration of his fascinating musical biography and the Warsaw mystery of his missing sheet music, attention is drawn Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-90209904278139190602023-09-25T00:34:00.002+02:002026-08-02T21:08:17.609+02:00Ewa Demarczyk Sings Zygmunt Konieczny's Songs
★★★★✰
The modern song genre has its roots in Romantic culture. As a dramatic narrative blending lyrics and music into a complete theatrical spectacle, the song emerged as a new type of performing art. This represented both a continuation of folk narrative traditions and the establishment of new directions in national musical culture. The era of national schools encompassed all Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-54283695740006913882023-07-01T15:39:00.014+02:002023-07-30T21:15:20.791+02:00Maurice Ravel plays and conducts his own works
★★★✰
Maurice Ravel's Bolero occupies an unquestionable place in the history of music as the most famous and indeed one of the most outstanding works of the early twentieth century. Despite the apparent simplicity of form and content, this work has everything that characterizes the final break with 19th-century music and sets new directions in symphonic music. The Bolero effect,Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-62876251151740007502023-06-05T05:05:00.014+02:002023-07-11T11:37:36.306+02:00Silbermann Organ of Dresden Cathedral
★★★★✰
Dresden is a city of radiating artistic culture, literature and music. Among many cultural achievements, the city on the Elbe could boast of an extraordinary organ tradition. It is worth remembering that Dresden, as the capital of Saxony, was one of the most important musical centers of its time. Heinrich Schütz spent his entire creative life in Dresden - from 1615 to 1672, Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0Dresden, Germany51.0504088 13.737262122.740174963821154 -21.418987899999998 79.360642636178852 48.8935121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-26892180499326032972022-01-29T07:37:00.008+01:002023-07-11T11:32:56.602+02:00Teo Macero — Impressions of Charles Mingus
★★★✰
Albums issued on vinyl records can tell the complex story of music, performances and artists, trends and ideas, composers, instrumentalists, vocalists and lots of people being a part of the recording industry. Professional position of creative producer in the era of vinyl records was significantly higher than any time
before and after. Those were the times of records as Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-4866737536844323212021-11-30T05:09:00.094+01:002021-12-14T01:43:33.826+01:00Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center★★★★★
Technology is what changes the world. New sources and technical methods of sound modeling have always formed the basis of the development of new styles and even a new aesthetic paradigm. The history of electronic music in USA began in 1951, when the Columbia Music Department purchased the first Ampex 400 tape recorder. Two composers: Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com02960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8079766 -73.963198912.497742763821158 -109.1194489 69.118210436178856 -38.806948899999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-8673952472771251222021-01-01T07:44:00.045+01:002021-01-26T12:18:59.371+01:00John Adams — Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
★★★★★
John Adams, one of the best composers of today’s America, started his creative career in the end of the decade of sixties. Time of avantgarde ideas and great achievements of post-war music was about to an end. From the beginning of his composing he took esthetic positions of post-minimalistic style dealing with Darmstadt school ideas. As 31 years old composer in 1978 he wroteKrzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-16024889354936535882020-06-16T14:55:00.000+02:002020-06-16T16:51:42.070+02:00Tom Robinson Band — Power in the Darkness
★★★✰
In the time of violent unrests, when constitutional rights are trampled by armed forces, politicians are staying against people, companies still are creating growth of public debt, and corporative mass-media false picture of reality, only arts and music can remind you what an honest world should look like. For some it will be a moment of rest, momentary relief in pain, but in Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-48465677572697528522019-01-04T05:38:00.000+01:002019-01-05T18:55:13.369+01:00Folk Festival – Songs from the deep of social history
★★✰
Song can be understand as a base of musical expression and position of music in communication system. As the form of musical experience, song was always fundamental part of any culture. While developing forms of music through the eras were expanding and complicating, in folk music this form rooted in communication mechanisms, language and symbolic gestures, was flourishing Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-53360793868250635982017-06-30T11:27:00.000+02:002018-02-26T23:22:57.721+01:00Joni Mitchell — Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
★★★★✰
One of songwriters and great folk-rock singers who reached great worldwide fame as performing artist is representative of great Canadian American tradition, bright stage personality and guitarist Joni Mitchell. She is famous as singer and well known as performer, but her creative effort in songwriting was on the first place from the very beginning. With strong roots in folk Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-41186124952572846182017-05-15T13:00:00.000+02:002017-05-17T10:22:08.470+02:00Monteverdi – Madrigals – Leonhardt
THE 450th ANNIVERSARY OF CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI’S BIRTH
★★★★✰
Claudio Monteverdi was born in Cremona, traditional musical centre of Northern Italy. In 16th century newborn children were baptized as soon as possible, so his baptism day, May 15th, 1567 is widely recognized as a date of his birth. He was composer of two eras, starting his career in late Renaissance style and continuingKrzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-10535181161273379872017-04-30T23:18:00.002+02:002017-06-28T11:55:14.407+02:00Keith Jarrett — Treasure Island
April 30 - INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY celebrated under the auspices of UNESCO since 2012
★★★★
From the beginning of his recording career Keith Jarrett was musician of huge possibilities. As multi instrumentalist he was playing piano, harpsichord, pipe organ, soprano saxophone, flute, recorder, harmonica, guitar, bass guitar, drums and various percussion instruments. He was also Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-56898520570525562932017-04-28T21:53:00.000+02:002017-04-29T16:19:51.236+02:00Mstislav Rostropovitch conducts Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 6 'Pathetique'
★★★✰
As one of great personalities in music of second half of 20th century, Mstislav Rostropovitch was versatile artist of many qualities. His cello virtuosity and interpretative skills made his name widely recognized as soloist and conductor. Starting from 1962 stage of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in Gorky Opera (today Nizhni Novgorod) he was active also as opera Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-70298643704154972752017-03-26T22:56:00.000+02:002017-06-02T02:31:18.261+02:00Original Broadway Cast Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
★★★★
In the history of musical theatre, projects winning best position were always connected with some historical changes or social issues. In fact this refers to any work of art especially when it’s a narrative one. The tension between political or economical processes and particular moment in the life of a hero is the energy moving storytelling from oldest times. When in short Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-79673436911362504312017-02-28T03:09:00.000+01:002017-10-25T20:24:38.098+02:00Shakatak — Night Birds
★★★
In seventies all styles of popular music were the subject of deep change. Although many kinds of jazz and rock were still continuing artistic quest in old directions, the wide public and main labels were choosing more dance and rhythmic kinds of music. After all bastions of intellectually ambitious jazz and progressive rock fallen, after jazz rock pave comfortable ways to all Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-45917857170371348172017-01-28T04:26:00.000+01:002017-10-25T20:10:36.084+02:00Chick Corea — The Mad Hatter
★★★★★
In the middle of 1970’s decade Chick Corea was one of best recognized musicians on jazz scene. He was appreciated as pianist, composer, arranger, improviser and leader. He was known for his band and artists he played with. But first of all he was famous for his own style. Since his first fusion experiments in late sixties, Chick Corea was artist connecting and melting Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-46289791319589813692017-01-07T21:40:00.004+01:002017-01-10T21:32:48.359+01:00Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts Symphony Pathétique
★★★★★
In history of culture we have many mysterious phenomenons giving scope to our imagination. Facing chef-d'oeuvre we can’t rationalize all of its qualities, so we are mythologizing the story of its creation or just seeking any reason to explain its uniqueness. One of such masterpieces is Symphony B minor, Op. 74 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The work has been called Symphony Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-48244468552580473292016-12-31T17:31:00.001+01:002017-01-01T05:54:17.177+01:00Captain Beefheart — Strictly Personal
★★★✰
In the history of rock music Captain Beefheart can be seen as an enfant terrible of experimental subgenres. From his debut he was one of most influencing figures, although his impact on various groups of musicians and listeners was varied. Acclaimed by critics, but generally unpopular in wide audiences, inspiring for many musicians and worshiped by group of fans, Captain Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-29187011274984597882016-12-25T12:11:00.000+01:002016-12-29T04:15:26.546+01:00Diana Krall • Christmas Songs
★★★★
Diana Krall is recognized as one of best jazz singers in last decade of 20th century and first decades of 21st century. Born and raised in Canada, married to English singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, since the beginning of her career she is one of stars of international fame. After studies in Berklee College, Krall debuted in 1993 with album Stepping Out recorded in trio Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-10818487400471784512016-12-21T19:52:00.000+01:002016-12-24T01:13:31.409+01:00Alexander von Zemlinsky • Lyrische Symphonie op. 18 • Bernhard Klee
★★★★
Orchestral cycle of songs was undeniably one of greatest achievements of musical culture in romantic period. Although its formal idea has long evolution between early romantic songs, late-romantic cantata and postromantic symphony with vocal parts and various works for voice and orchestra, it was late Romanticism when development of symphonic cycle of songs resulted as Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-49065751614354592122016-04-22T21:19:00.000+02:002016-12-07T02:54:04.691+01:00Yehudi Menuhin Two Violin Concertos by Max Bruch
THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF YEHUDI MENUHIN'S BIRTH
★★★★
Although idea of string instrument with the bow was common in ancient civilizations, violin itself has relatively short history. We know violin as instrument constructed in 16th century Italy, and with slight modifications made in 18th and 19th century this form of violin lasts until today. The violin music is one of Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-84341141082737434602016-03-13T15:38:00.001+01:002016-12-07T02:55:19.652+01:00Emerson, Lake & Palmer — Brain Salad Surgery
★★★
The legendary supergroup of progressive rock, Emerson, Lake and Palmer was formed in 1970 by pianist and organist Keith Emerson who was known before as a member of progressive band The Nice, Greg Lake, singer and bassist of King Crimson and Carl Palmer, drummer of Atomic Rooster. Trio achieved instant success, in Isle of Wight Festival in August and with their debut album Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-77940007213412297622016-03-08T23:51:00.003+01:002016-12-07T02:57:36.298+01:00Herbert von Karajan — Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphonies 1st & 2nd — 1963
★★★★★
The full cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies is one of highest achievements in the history of music, especially in orchestral music and in symphonic form. Considering the role of these symphonies play in the history of music, it’s needless to say, this is mandatory set of works in artistic development of every orchestra. The same applies to conductor. Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217416089673589804.post-45881172559753196192016-01-31T23:41:00.000+01:002016-12-07T02:59:49.856+01:00Herbert von Karajan — Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphonies 1st & 2nd — 1977
★★★★★
Symphonic works by Ludwig van Beethoven were the major position in Karajan’s repertoire. Beethoven’s style was always a perfect choice to show Maestro’s abilities to connect deeply emotional, dramatic matters with formal discipline. After success achieved with completes of symphonies recorded with Philharmonia Orchestra in 1950’s and with Berliner Philharmoniker in early Krzysztof Szatrawskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729315722276254336noreply@blogger.com0