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]

Orchestral Comment/Interlude. 
Scene with Peyrol being going to the hidden Tartana's Bay.
1. Peyrol's Walk.
2. The Church's Bells In The Near.
3. The Hidden Bay.

Pawel Strzelecki: "Peyrol Goes To The Hidden Bay" (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].

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image*, poem, morphing and arrangement: copyright jo richter

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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: "Peyrol Goes To The Hidden Bay" (2024) ["The Rover"/"Il pirata" on Joseph Conrad].

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