Pawel Strzelecki: "Early Works" (2024), CD 2

The first movement of the String Quartet No. 1 (2001).
String Quartet 'Ars Longa', live recording, Warsaw, F. Chopin Academy of Music, Concert Hall, 2001.

Pawel Strzelecki: 1. Opening [String Quartet No. 1 (2001)].

The last movement of the String Quartet No. 1 (2001).
String Quartet 'Ars Longa', live recording, Warsaw, F. Chopin Academy of Music, Concert Hall, 2001.

Pawel Strzelecki: 4. Finale [String Quartet No. 1 (2001)].

The third movement of the String Quartet No. 1 (2001).

Pawel Strzelecki: 3. Adagio [String Quartet No. 1 (2001)].

The second movement of the String Quartet No. 1 (2001).
String Quartet 'Ars Longa', live recording, Warsaw, F. Chopin Academy of Music, Concert Hall, 2001.

Pawel Strzelecki: 2. Scherzo [String Quartet No. 1 (2001)].

No. 6 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. 
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 6. Prelude in F (Ottimistico) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

No. 7 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. 
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 7. Prelude in F# (Infantile) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

No. 3 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. 
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 3. Prelude in D (Grandioso) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

No. 2 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 2. Prelude in C# "Raindrop" [12 Piano Preludes (2007)].

Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. 
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 5. Prelude in E (Con tristezza) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

No. 11 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. 
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 11. Prelude in B flat (Con brio) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

No. 12 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano.
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 12. Prelude in B (Brillante) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

No. 4 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Phase shifting operations with "Romantic" expression.
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano.
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 4. Prelude in D sharp (Nostalgico) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

The second movement of the Piano Quintet (2003).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano, 'Camerata' String Quartet.
Live recording: 'Warsaw Autumn 2004', Warsaw, Concert Hall of The F. Chopin Academy of Music, 16th of September 2004.
2004: The First Award in the State Tadeusz Baird’s Young Composers Competition in Warsaw, Poland. 

"Introspections" start with a string quartet’s quotation of a soothing hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” (text: Sarah Flower Adams) based on the tune “Bethany" by Lowell Mason (1856) contrasted with polytonal relation interventions of the pianist. In the second, opposing phase more restless and moving ostinato sections predominate. The piano chords interventions sign syntax mometnum of the piece and conclude it.

Pawel Strzelecki: 2. Introspections [Piano Quintet (2003)].

Reflection on the Romantic epoch.
No. 9 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 9. Prelude in G# (Espressivo) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

Lively & reflective 3rd movement of the Piano Quintet (2003).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano, 'Camerata' String Quartet.
Live recording: 'Warsaw Autumn 2004', Warsaw, Concert Hall of The F. Chopin Academy of Music, 16th of September 2004.
1st Award, Tadeusz Baird State Competition in Poland, 2004.

Pawel Strzelecki: 3. Finale [Piano Quintet (2003)].

Melancholic and reflective No. 10 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 10. Prelude in A (Con malinconia) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

Andrzej Heimowski - guitar, Szymon Kaca - clarinet.
Warsaw, Concert Hall of the Academy of Music "F. Chopin", 09/05/2003.

Pawel Strzelecki: Ostinatos and Chords  for Clarinet and Guitar (2003), 7' ca.

Impressionist no. 8 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007).

Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. 
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 8. Prelude in G (Sognando) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

Opening movement of chamber piece composed in reprise-form with segmental structure, phase shifting ostinatos, canons and layer's superpositions (recapitulation) in modal language.
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano, 'Camerata' String Quartet.
Live recording: 'Warsaw Autumn 2004', Warsaw, Concert Hall of The F. Chopin Academy of Music, 16th of September 2004.

Pawel Strzelecki: 1. Overture [Piano Quintet (2003)].

No. 1 in the cycle of 12 Preludes for Piano (2007). 
In the piece rocky-driving childish sections are contrasted with cantus firmus arpeggiated "Impressionist" episodes. 
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano. 
Live concert recording, Warsaw, Concert Hall of the F. Chopin Academy of Music, 20th of April 2009.

Pawel Strzelecki: 1. Prelude in C (Gioioso) [12 Preludes for Piano (2007)].

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 128 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: "Early Works" (2024), CD 2

Pawel Strzelecki, Ph.D.