Fitelberg: Works for Violin and Piano

Featuring

Marcin Hałat
Aleksandra Hałat
Jerzy Fitelberg

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Recording & Production

This album features four of Jerzy Fitelberg's works for violin and piano, which are world premiere recordings and comprise over 60 minutes of music.

Compositional Technique

The key role of tempo and rhythm in Jerzy Fitelberg's music stemmed from his youthful experience as a percussionist in his father's orchestra.

Composition History

Jerzy Fitelberg's final work, Concertino da camera for Violin and Piano, was completed just two days before his premature death in New York in 1951.

Performer Biography

Aleksandra Hałat, the pianist on this album, initiated the 'Return of Karol Rathaus' project to popularize the works of Karol Rathaus, an exiled composer, and other such composers.

Historical Context

Jerzy Fitelberg emigrated to New York in 1940, five days after Adolf Hitler began his march on Paris, and became a US citizen in 1947.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Jerzy Fitelberg was described as a composer who rebelled against romantic traditions in Polish music and was considered a forerunner of individualism and new music.

Composer Biography

Jerzy Fitelberg, born in Warsaw in 1903, was the son of the prominent Polish conductor Grzegorz Fitelberg and was highly acclaimed both in Poland and internationally.