Ryszard Sielicki -"Jankel's Mazurka" (fragment), Agnieszka Marucha-violin, Tomasz Pawlowski -piano
Ryszard Sielicki -"Jankel's Mazurka" Hommage a Yehudi Menuhin (fragment) Agnieszka Marucha-violin Tomasz Pawlowski -piano AP0390, june 2016 Ryszard Sielicki - 3 03 1916 Warsaw - 21 12 2005Warsaw. In the years 1937-39 he studied theory of music with Kazimierz Sikorski at the Warsaw Music Conservatory. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War he started working with the Odeon Record Label and its director Jerzy Gert. After 1939 he found himself in the Soviet Union. He started to study composition in Minsk, Belarus with Nikolai Zolotariew (a former pupil of Nicolai Rimski-Korsakow). One of collegues was Mieczyslaw Weinberg. In 1943 he begun studying composition at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow with Dmitri Shostakovich, Anatoly Aleksandrow and Yuri Shaporin. He completed his studies in 1948. After returning to Poland in 1956 he became the Artistic Director of the Polskie Nagrania record company, where he established such legendary series of recordings as the Musica Antiqua Polonica and the Polish Jazz series. While directing Polskie Nagrania he worked with and promoted the country's most famous artists such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Piotr Janowski, Wanda Polańska and others. As a composer he devoted himself during this time mostly to popular music. His most notable works include an opera for children "Mary the orphan and the Dwarfs", several symphonic works (Cello Concerto, Polish Sketches, Children’s Pictures), chamber music works (2 String Quartets, Légende Hebraique, Serenade Orientale, Old town dances, Mazurka – Yehudi Menuhin in memoriam) and lieder.
Ryszard Sielicki -"Jankel's Mazurka" Hommage a Yehudi Menuhin (fragment) Agnieszka Marucha-violin Tomasz Pawlowski -piano AP0390, june 2016 Ryszard Sielicki - 3 03 1916 Warsaw - 21 12 2005Warsaw. In the years 1937-39 he studied theory of music with Kazimierz Sikorski at the Warsaw Music Conservatory. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War he started working with the Odeon Record Label and its director Jerzy Gert. After 1939 he found himself in the Soviet Union. He started to study composition in Minsk, Belarus with Nikolai Zolotariew (a former pupil of Nicolai Rimski-Korsakow). One of collegues was Mieczyslaw Weinberg. In 1943 he begun studying composition at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow with Dmitri Shostakovich, Anatoly Aleksandrow and Yuri Shaporin. He completed his studies in 1948. After returning to Poland in 1956 he became the Artistic Director of the Polskie Nagrania record company, where he established such legendary series of recordings as the Musica Antiqua Polonica and the Polish Jazz series. While directing Polskie Nagrania he worked with and promoted the country's most famous artists such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Piotr Janowski, Wanda Polańska and others. As a composer he devoted himself during this time mostly to popular music. His most notable works include an opera for children "Mary the orphan and the Dwarfs", several symphonic works (Cello Concerto, Polish Sketches, Children’s Pictures), chamber music works (2 String Quartets, Légende Hebraique, Serenade Orientale, Old town dances, Mazurka – Yehudi Menuhin in memoriam) and lieder.