Le clavecin moderne: New Polish Music for the Harpsichord Solo

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Release Date: 3rd Feb 2017
Catalogue No: Sarton023-2
Label: Sarton Records
Length: 50 minutes

Przybylski, D: Toccata

Work length2:53

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Alina Ratkowska

Sawa: Raf

Work length6:18

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Alina Ratkowska

I. Risoluto

Track length2:05

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II. Amoroso

Track length1:44

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III. Furioso

Track length2:29

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Łukaszewski, P: Souvenir IV

Work length4:03

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Alina Ratkowska

Grudzień: Turdus Musicus

Work length3:20

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Alina Ratkowska

Anna Ignatowicz-Gliñska: Out of Silence

Work length11:28

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Alina Ratkowska

Miłosz Bembinow: 7 Gates to Wildness

Work length11:37

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Alina Ratkowska

I. One Love

Track length2:07

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II. To Be or Not...

Track length1:34

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III. Freedom?

Track length1:44

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IV. Fourtyfour Seconds

Track length0:46

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V. Fivefold?

Track length1:11

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VI. Six-teen...

Track length1:17

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VII. Seven or Eight?

Track length2:58

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Bartosz Kowalski: Klawitiuda

Work length5:58

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Alina Ratkowska

Edward Sielicki: Finale (Bien toucher le clavecin)

Work length4:23

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Alina Ratkowska

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The CD entitled ‘Le Clavecin Moderne - New Polish Music for Solo Harpsichord’ is the first CD in the career of Alina Ratkowska, a harpsichord player, devoted to the contemporary Polish music for the harpsichord solo. Many compositions complied in the album were either performed by Ms Ratkowska for the first time, or dedicated to her. The CD proves that the harpsichord which is primarily associated with early music has the potential to inspire contemporary authors, too. There is a side to the instrument which places it in the midst of most recent music.

The same goes for Ms Ratkowska: a graduate of the Academy of Music in Warsaw and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel and laureate of first prizes at renowned early music competitions she now comes as a remarkable interpreter of music composed contemporarily. She has found the contemporary music fascinating, as she herself reveals in the preface to the CD: Entrusted with premiere performances of the pieces, I found myself in the world totally unknown to me before, fascinating as it turned out to be. I have settled in that world for good. The names of the authors whose music is recorded on the CD, namely: Milosz Bembinow, Bartosz Kowalski, Edward Sielicki, Pawel Lukaszewski, Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska, Marian Sawa, and Jacek Grudzien, evidence that the harpsichord inspires the most esteemed Polish contemporary composers. Ms Ratkowska decided to record the music on copies of the historic instruments instead of the pedal harpsichord of the 20th century. The Le Clavecin Moderne CD seems to be an answer to the question about the potential the harpsichord offers to contemporary composers and the way in which it can be used outside the world of early music.

Le clavecin moderne: New Polish Music for the Harpsichord Solo

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