Roman Maciejewski understood the art of transcription as an attractive presentation of another composer's musical language, filtered through his own imagination, rather than as a display of spectacular virtuosity.
Critical Reception
Critics praised both the pianistic skill of Roman Maciejewski and Martin Penny, who performed these transcriptions, and the artistic quality of their arrangements.
Composition History
Most of Roman Maciejewski's piano transcriptions were created in Sweden in the early 1940s for a series of concerts in Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Performer Biography
Katarzyna Rajs, one of the pianists on this recording, recorded a collection of Roman Maciejewski's piano mazurkas in 2011 and is working to restore his piano transcriptions to concert repertoires.
Recording & Production
This album marks the first recording of Roman Maciejewski's rediscovered transcriptions, performed by pianists Katarzyna Rajs and Piotr Kępiński.
Historical Context
One of the concerts featuring Roman Maciejewski's transcriptions, held in Stockholm in 1942, was organized under Polish-English diplomatic patronage to benefit the Polish Aid Committee for Poles during wartime.
Composer Biography
Roman Maciejewski, the composer who created these transcriptions, was known for his 'outsider' personality and for abandoning a lucrative job in Hollywood to compose a monumental Requiem.
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