Polish Wind Quintets Cracow Golden Quintet

• Michał Spisak (1914 - 1965): Spisak: Wind Quintet:
• 1 Spisak: Wind Quintet: I. Allegro moderato 02:35
• 2 Spisak: Wind Quintet: II. Andante 02:43
• 3 Spisak: Wind Quintet: III. Andante - Allegro 05:11
• Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 - 1969): Bacewicz: Wind Quintet:
• 4 Bacewicz: Wind Quintet: I. Allegro (1) 03:13
• 5 Bacewicz: Wind Quintet: II. Air. Andante 02:26
• 6 Bacewicz: Wind Quintet: III. Allegretto 01:09
• 7 Bacewicz: Wind Quintet: IV. Vivo 02:36
• Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz (1916 - 1998): Paciorkiewicz: Wind Quintet:
• 8 Paciorkiewicz: Wind Quintet: I. Allegro (2) 05:44
• 9 Paciorkiewicz: Wind Quintet: II. Lento 03:42
• 10 Paciorkiewicz: Wind Quintet: III. Allegro scherzando 04:22
• Wojciech Kilar (1932 - 2013): Kilar: Wind Quintet:
• 11 Kilar: Wind Quintet: I. Sinfonia 03:27
• 12 Kilar: Wind Quintet: II. Scherzo 02:37
• 13 Kilar: Wind Quintet: III. Chorale variée 03:11
• 14 Kilar: Wind Quintet: IV. Finale. Rondo 05:28
• Józef Świder (1930 - 2014): Świder: Mini-Quintetto:
• 15 Świder: Mini-Quintetto: I. Studio 01:45
• 16 Świder: Mini-Quintetto: II. Sentimentale 02:52
• 17 Świder: Mini-Quintetto: III. Intrada e fugato 03:26
• 18 Świder: Mini-Quintetto: IV. Cantabile 01:48
• 19 Świder: Mini-Quintetto: V. Imitazione 01:26
• 20 Świder: Mini-Quintetto: VI. Polonaise 01:59
• 21 Świder: Mini-Quintetto: VII. Finale. Scherzo 02:00
• Total Runtime 01:03:40

Info for Polish Wind Quintets

The five wind quintets recorded on this album clearly refer to the neoclassical style, which is directly related to the genre preferences and musical language of each of the presented Polish artists active in the 20th and early 21st centuries. The debut album of the Cracow Golden Quintet was recorded a year after they received an award at the prestigious first edition of the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszow.

The Cracow Golden Quintet is a spectacular group of professional musicians-virtuosos who have developed a magically intimate bond of musical understanding. (Michael Moran)

Cracow Golden Quintet

Cracow Golden Quintet
is an ensamble made up of instrumentalists who want to express the beauty and purity of the wind quintet’s sound with their passion and commitment. It consists of soloists of symphony orchestras, also rich in experience of playing in chamber music groups and solo performances. The unique selection of instruments - flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn - allows to obtain an unbuttoned palette of tone colors. Despite the diversity, the ensamble creates one musical organism, meeting the most sophisticated requirements of composers for chamber music performers.

In their repertoire are included mainly works of classical music: from the classical era to the contemporary music. Thanks to the individual skills of each musician, creativity, work on exceptional sound quality and stable intonation, the band exhibits extraordinary interpretations of the works of Mozart, Ligeti, Ibert, Arnold, Agay, Nielsen, Barber and many others. The quintet also specializes in performing and promoting Polish music. The repertoire prepared for participation in the International Polish Music Competition in Rzeszów contains compositions by M. Spisak. T. Szeligowski, G. Bacewicz, T. Paciorkiewicz, W. Kilar. It is constantly expanded with new works by Polish composers - especially those forgotten, rarely presented on concert hall stages - and extremely valuable in the context of Polish national heritage. The quintet also performs contemporary music, taking part in world premieres and recordings of 20th and 21st century pieces.

Booklet for Polish Wind Quintets