A Journey into the Abyss Witold Wilczek

• Alexei Stanchinsky (1888 - 114):
• 1 Stanchinsky: Humoresque for Piano 05:31
• 2 Mazurkas:
• 2 Stanchinsky: 2 Mazurkas: No. 1 in D-Flat Major 03:47
• 3 Stanchinsky: 2 Mazurkas: No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor 02:00
• Alexei Stanchinsky:
• 4 Stanchinsky: Nocturne in E Major 04:40
• 3 Preludes:
• 5 Stanchinsky: 3 Preludes: No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor 01:47
• 6 Stanchinsky: 3 Preludes: No. 2 in D Major 01:01
• 7 Stanchinsky: 3 Preludes: No. 3 in E-Flat Minor 02:03
• Alexei Stanchinsky:
• 8 Stanchinsky: Piano Sonata in E-Flat Minor 10:31
• 9 Stanchinsky: Prelude in Lydian Mode 04:45
• 10 Stanchinsky: Canon in B Minor 01:09
• Prelude & Fugue in G Minor:
• 11 Stanchinsky: Prelude & Fugue in G Minor: I. Prelude 02:55
• 12 Stanchinsky: Prelude & Fugue in G Minor: II. Fugue 02:41
• 4 Canon-Preludes:
• 13 Stanchinsky: 4 Canon-Preludes: No. 1 in C Major 01:51
• 14 Stanchinsky: 4 Canon-Preludes: No. 2 in G Major 03:04
• 15 Stanchinsky: 4 Canon-Preludes: No. 3 in A Major 05:06
• 16 Stanchinsky: 4 Canon-Preludes: No. 4 in E-Flat Minor 03:28
• Total Runtime 56:19

Info for A Journey into the Abyss

The silver age of Russian culture at the turn of the 20th century is a time when the tendencies in Russian art, which had been growing for a century, reached their peak, placing it in a gap between its fascination with the Western culture and being rooted in the Slavic tradition of Great Ruthenia.

This era, although it lasted only about two decades, produced many great artists such as poet Akhmatova, painters Kandinsky and Chagall, or composers, e.g. Scriabin and Stravinsky. A rising star, shining with the splendour of his extraordinary talent, was also Alexei Stanchinsky, a young composer, hailed as a genius, from the circle of Taneyev and Scriabin; his march to greatness was interrupted by a sudden and tragic death in 1914. We cordially invite you to familiarize yourself with the selection of piano pieces by this wonderful composer as interpreted by Witold Wilczek.

Witold Wilczek, piano

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