Drewnowski/Rsno/Tabakov - MAJERSKI:CONCERTO-POEM

The Polish pianist-composer Tadeusz Majerski (1888�1963) wrote some of the most interesting Polish music of his day, bringing together late-Romantic sensitivity and the harmonic freedom of Schoenbergian modernism � although primacy of emotional expression was always his watchword. In spite of his musical importance, Majerski spent his entire life in Lw�w (now Lviv in Ukraine) and so has been almost completely lost from sight. This first album dedicated to his work presents one of his major scores, the rhapsodic Concerto-Poem for piano and orchestra, as well as two powerful chamber works and a number of representative piano miniatures. An extensive interview with the composer Andrzej Nikodemowicz, now in his 90s, brings personal memories of Majerski and paints a vivid picture of his difficult life in Lviv under Soviet occupation Micha? Drewnowski is the pianist who has discovered Majerski and is making him known to the outside world � a task in which this release is a major step.