Name: Pawel Strzelecki: HMS Victory Before the Last Tartana's Race (2025) ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad]. by Pawel Strzelecki, Ph.D. in Pawel Strzelecki: "The Rover" on Joseph Conrad [opera fragments, 2020-2025]
Duration: 5 min 1 s
Description: Scene from the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: "The Rover" on Joseph Conrad [opera fragments, 2020-2025]

Opening [soloists, choir & orchestra] (2020) of the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPwM0H9be50&t=3s

Pawel Strzelecki: 1. Opening /Orch. & Choir/ (2020) ["The Rover" ("Il pirata") on Joseph Conrad ].

Short Interlude for orchestra (2024), element of the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: "Night Interlude" for Orchestra (2024) ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad].

Opening scene:
1) Peyrol leaves his ship in Toulon harbour after dekades of his absence in his homeland.
2) Peyrol is walking through the harbour towards offices' building.
3) Peyrol's "Leitmotif" (introduced in Ouverture).
4) Peyrol's recitativo accompagnato with sigh motives (exposed in Ouverture).
5) Peyrol sings: "I left ship in Toulon, in my homeland, in my homeland".
6) The lights on the water's surface. Peyrol entered Harbour offices' building (orchestral "comment").
7) The near church bell tolls introducing next "number".

Pawel Strzelecki: 2. In Toulon Harbour. Scene 1 (2024) ["The Rover"/"Il pirata" on Joseph Conrad].

Scevola's story in the eyes of Peyrol and Arlette (2024), "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: Scevola's Story (2024) ["The Rover"/"Il pirata" on Joseph Conrad]

Peyrol's first tartana-boat race [orchestral fragment] (2025) from the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: The First Tartana's Race (2025) ["The Rover"/"Il pirata" on Joseph Conrad].

S-Techno Altona

back in the everyday life

Apophenia

While waiting for the next tracks, which are a long time coming, here are two field recordings made in Vietnam with some very special animals!...
The first time I heard a gecko, I couldn't believe it was this kind of lizard making that sound, but it was! At the beginning of this recording, we can hear a gecko "singing" in the night of the Mekong Delta, and then the quiet atmosphere of the city of Can Tho at those hours…
January 2024, Cần Thơ, Việt Nam 
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En attendant les nouveaux morceaux, qui se font attendre, deux nouveaux enregistrements de terrain réalisés au Vietnam avec quelques animaux très spéciaux !...
La première fois que j'ai entendu un gecko, je n'arrivais pas à croire que c'était cette sorte de lézard qui faisait ce son, mais c'était le cas ! Au début de cette enregistrement, on peut entendre un gecko "chanter" dans la nuit du Delta du Mékong, et ensuite la calme ambiance de la ville de Can Tho à ces heures-là...
Janvier 2024, Cần Thơ, Việt Nam

Geckos in the night of Can Tho

#GS2025
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I am, of course, aware of the existence of the Japanese film Burst City.
While my work is in part an homage, I would like it to be regarded as an independent piece in its own right.

Burst City

Chapter 244 of 266

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Taffeta 244

TAFFETA 244

Lots of subtle guitar layers on this.

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A kaleidoscope sea,
waves folding into triangles and circles
as if the ocean had learned to play with blocks. 
Above, the sun unravels into bright shards, 
scattering like toys in the sky. 
It feels joyful, almost innocent. 
Yet every color carries a hush. 
Summer is only tidying up its games before slipping quietly away.

Polygon Equinox

Polygon Equinox ↧

Fuck bombs, fuck war, fuck it all. Anywhere and everywhere.
--
FoF: drums, piano

Make it make sense

another example in my 'isolated tracks' series, this is a short snippet from 'The Get Down' by the Eclectic Collective, featuring just the clavinet chorus along with Josh's slick bass riff and some nifty percussion from Ken.  

here's the full song with the detailed description:
(likely a different sounding mix than you've heard before)  😎

https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/the-get-down-mark-mix-audio

The Get Down (ISOLATED clavinet with rhythm section)

the title is a sentence of a poem of Hermann Hesse

verliebt in die verrückte Welt

Scene from the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: HMS Victory Before the Last Tartana's Race (2025)  ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad].

Polish Composer (M.A., 2002, "F. Chopin" Academy of Music in Warsaw,  Prof. Zbigniew Baginski's class), music theorist (M.A., 2000, "F. Chopin" Academy of Music in Warsaw, under Prof. Maria Piotrowska), musicologist (Ph.D., 2005, University of Warsaw, under Prof. Zbigniew Skowron), researcher, lecturer.
So far he has written 127 pieces: 12 symphonies (2017-2024), 3 symphonic poems (2001-2011), 4 concertos with orchestra (organ, piano, two pianos, flute, 2002-2025), 22 string quartets (2001-2025), 17 sonatas for different solo instruments with piano (violin, cello, oboe, trombone, etc.), chamber music as Piano Trio (1998), Piano Quartet (2021), Piano Quintet (2003), String Trio (2021), numerous songs for voice and piano, sacred works, e.g. Mass for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra (2002, rev. 2024), and electronic music.  
The stylistic and technical parameters describes the text below:
https://pawelstrzelecki.wixsite.com/music
The author of the crucial, first and original book (used as academic manual and present in many libraries) on "New Romanticism" in Polish music after 1975, containing interview of the author with Krzysztof Penderecki (2022, English Language Edition).
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1282565?fbclid=IwAR1Pm40flHnsqH07OsvXdXwV1ZwLeVLOmfrxkqe3wxL5rsJioluBL-2FQ9M#document-details-anchor
Polish edition (2006):
https://mi.pl/pl/p/Pawel-Strzelecki-Nowy-romantyzm-w-tworczosci-kompozytorow-polskich-po-roku-1975/59

The book was quoted in: Andrea Bohlman: "Musical Solidarities. Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland". Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 208, 266. The link to the quotation (p. 208):
https://books.google.pl/books?id=uNnBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&dq=bohlman+nowy+romantyzm&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoyL-x-Lf4AhXOk4sKHUWMChUQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=bohlman%20nowy%20romantyzm&f=false

Pawel Strzelecki: HMS Victory Before the Last Tartana's Race (2025) ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad].

Pawel Strzelecki, Ph.D.

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