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Jerzy Bauer (born in 1936) is head of the Theory of Music Department in Academy of Musik in Łódź. He is a winner of many awards and honours at composition competitions. The work si an attempt at combining two aesthetics: baroque and of French neoclassicism. Its high requirements on imagination and technical skills are rewarded in the tonal and expressive attractiveness.
The work is an attemp at combining, by means of juxtaposition, two aesthetics: one baroque and the other, the aesthetic of French neoclassicism of the first half of the twentieth century: hence the strange title of the work Dualistyl. The whole is a kind of pastiche enriched with new expressive achievements. In Professor Jozef Cieplucha's opinion, the work is not every difficult, but makes high requirements on both the imagination and the technical skills of the performers. But these requirements are rewarded in the tonal and expenssive attractiveness of the work.

Lista utworów:
Dualistyl (Bauer Jerzy)

The study Le Api for oboe and piano was first published in 1905 and was dedicated to the "Conservatorio di Musica di Palermo". Some similitarity to Rimskij-Korsakov's Flight of the bumble-bee may be apparent, as both composers give a sound picture of insects; however, Pasculli wrote his piece before Rimskij-Korsakow. From a postscript to the third study we learn that the three characteristic studies were first performed in the big hall of the "Conservatorio di musica" in Milan on July 14, 1874. The long legato ties can only be played with "circular breathing technique", however, even without this breathing technique the study can be played in sections and this way is a most valuable technical exercise.

Lista utworów:
Le Api (Pasculli Antonio)

David Amram - "In the mystery of the spirit world of native American people, there is the same quality of timelessness that is in the spirit of all true music. Marcel Tabuteau gave all musicians who knew him na higher sense of what music was about. This will always be, through the recordings of his playing, and the part of him that lives and is passed down through his students. His tradition cannot be described. It has to be felt in the way he felt about music. Like most people in the United States he was from another continent and settled here. the oldest and first Americans have a tradition in their making of music that best expresses the feeling all of us in music have when we honor musican".

Lista utworów:
Prologue (Amram David)
"Thanks to the Earth Where Men Dwell" (Amram David)
Song of the Sky Loom (Amram David)
"Every Part of this Soil Is Sacred" (Amram David)

Ignaz Holzbauer (1711 - 1783) to niemiecki kompozytor należący do przedklasycznej szkoły manheimskiej. Jest autorem licznych symfonii, oper i muzyki kameralnej. Prezentowane wydanie "Koncertu na obój i orkiestrę" Holzbauera zawiera opracowanie tego utworu na obój i fortepian (wyciąg fortepianowy partii orkiestry) z kadencją skomponowaną przez wydawcę publikacji - Waltera Lebermanna. Obecne wydanie zostało oparte o jedyny zachowany rękopis kompozycji, znajdujący się w "Royal Library of the Principality of Thurn and Taxis" w Regensburgu. Kompozycja posiada klasyczną, trzyczęściową budowę: cz. I - Allegro (moderato), cz. II - Largo, cz. III - Allegro. Jest to utwór typowo wirtuozowski.