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What a fine composer Mieczyspaw Karpowicz might have become, had he not died at the age of 32 in an avalanche in the Tatra mountains. He had already produced a clutch of symphonic poems in a... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2002
Catalogue No: CHAN9986
Label: Chandos
Length: 66 minutes

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Karlowicz: Odwieczne piesni (Eternal Songs), Op. 10

Work length27:10

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Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic

I. Song of Everlasting Yearning

Track length10:46

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II. Song of Love and Death

Track length10:42

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III. Song of Eternal Being

Track length5:42

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Karlowicz: Stanislaw i Anna Oswiecimowie (Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecim), Op. 12

Work length22:22

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Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic

Karlowicz: Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11

Work length17:15

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Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic

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What a fine composer Mieczyspaw Karpowicz might have become, had he not died at the age of 32 in an avalanche in the Tatra mountains. He had already produced a clutch of symphonic poems in a post- Wagnerian style, strongly pantheistic in outlook and, in the case of Stanispaw and Anna ofOs´wiecim, with a dash of illicit love thrown in.
These luxuriant works set him broadly beside such near-contemporaries as Rachmaninov, Zemlinsky or Suk, and there are even signs in the 'Song of Eternal Being' (third and last of the Eternal Songs) of an individuality that might one day have become as powerful as Janácek's. This is, for the most part, sultrily ecstatic music, that hangs fragrantly or ominously in the air and seems to be constantly about to break through to some visionary realm. Even the relatively jaunty Lithuanian Rhapsody eventually turns wistful in a rather moving way.
If you've a taste for lush late-Romanticism but haven't yet encountered Karpowicz, you've a treat in store, not least because these are fine performances.
His music has never been more than fleetingly represented in the catalogue. Back in 1990 there was a two-disc Chant du Monde compilation of the symphonic poems from the Silesian Philharmonic; but their courageous efforts are easily outclassed by the BBC Philharmonic and Yan Pascal Tortelier, as is the recording by Chandos's customary rich sound-stage.

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