Brochocka & Weinberg: Double Bass Works

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Release Date: 29th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: ACD218
Label: CD Accord
Length: 62 minutes

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Brochocka: Suite for Double Bass "Pas de basse"

Work length14:12

$6.00

$7.80

Karol Kowal (double bass)
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 2-3 January 2015
Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall

I. Port de bras

Track length2:15

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II. Deboules

Track length2:08

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III. Arabesque

Track length3:33

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IV. Ballotte

Track length2:22

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V. Degage

Track length1:30

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VI. Chasse

Track length2:24

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Brochocka: Double Bass Sonata

Work length14:13

$4.00

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Karol Kowal (double bass), Katarzyna Brochocka (piano)
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 2-3 January 2015
Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall

I. Adagio - Presto

Track length4:51

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II. Andante semplice

Track length3:02

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III. Allegretto scherzando

Track length1:44

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IV. Largo

Track length4:36

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Weinberg: Double Bass Sonata, Op. 108

Work length20:14

$6.00

$7.80

Karol Kowal (double bass)
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 2-3 January 2015
Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall

I. Adagio

Track length4:13

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$1.30

II. Allegretto

Track length2:54

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III. Moderato

Track length2:40

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IV. Allegretto

Track length1:26

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V. Lento

Track length4:04

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VI. Allegro molto

Track length4:57

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Brochocka: Double Bass Concerto (Version for Double Bass & Piano)

Work length14:17

$3.00

$3.90

Karol Kowal (double bass), Katarzyna Brochocka (piano)
Recorded: 1-2 December 2014 and 2-3 January 2015
Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall

I. Andante moderato

Track length5:43

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II. Allegro energico

Track length3:11

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III. Adagio - Vivace

Track length5:23

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This album features virtuosic and highly expressive new music for the Double Bass, written by two Polish composers. It contains the premiere recordings of works by award-winning composer Katarzyna Brochocka, as well as a novel interpretation of a unique piece by forgotten genius Mieczysław Weinberg.

Polish double bassist Karol Kowal has chosen challenging repertoire for his debut album, recorded together with composer and pianist Katarzyna Brochocka. On the disc, released by CD Accord Music Edition, one can find three compositions by Brochocka, whose works have recently gained international recognition. Composer of critically acclaimed chamber operas, Brochocka is represented in this album by her Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, Suite for Solo Double Bass (Pas de Basse) and by her Double Bass Concerto (here recorded in its version for piano and bass).

Brochocka’s music is paired with a piece written by a composer whose music is one of the greatest revelations in recent years. A close friend of Shostakovich, Weinberg was a Polish-born Jew who escaped Nazi terror in World War II, only to be trapped by the Soviet regime. Due to government restrictions, public performances of his music were forbidden for a long time, and now his enormous output is finally being rediscovered. The Sonata for Solo Double Bass, Op. 108 is Weinberg's only work written for this instrument. The piece shares common dramatic aesthetics with Brochocka’s works, together creating a fascinating combination of passionate and intellectually provoking music - music that no one would expect to hear performed on the double bass.

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