The music of Zygmunt Stojowski has yet to benefit from the renaissance enjoyed by other Polish composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His violin concerto—enthusiastically received at its premiere—is here revivified alongside Wieniawski’s dazzling Fantaisie in volume 20 of our Romantic Violin Concerto series.
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‘Bartłomiej Nizioł has a seductively silky smooth tone and a narrow vibrato, and plays with exactly the kind of lyrical, ecstatic intensity that Stojowski’s demanding Violin Concerto requires’ (Gramop ...
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‘This is a thoroughly enjoyable disc, not only because of its well-conceived programme of dramatic, impassioned music but also owing to the excellent advocacy of Bartłomiej Nizioł’ (The Strad)
BBC Music Magazine‘This is a thoroughly enjoyable disc, not only because of its well-conceived programme of dramatic, impassioned music but also owing to the excellent advocacy of Bartłomiej Nizioł’ (The Strad)