Serocki: Complete Works for Solo Piano

Featuring

Adam Kośmieja
Kazimierz Serocki

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Compositional Technique

Kazimierz Serocki is primarily known as the creator of Polish sonorism, a style featuring harmonies with surprisingly original colors.

Composer Biography

Kazimierz Serocki, the composer, was an extremely talented pianist in his early childhood, with an enthusiastic review of his performances surviving from that time.

Critical Reception

Serocki's music was highly valued in European avant-garde circles for over 20 years, with performances on prestigious stages after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Compositional Technique

Serocki's 'Suite of Preludes' is an atonal piece and a pioneering example in post-war Poland of engaging with the unbound twelve-tone system, despite being composed during socialist-realist formalism.

Performer Biography

Adam Kośmieja, the pianist, is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and has won first prizes at several piano competitions, including the Mieczysław Münz Piano Competition in New York.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Serocki was fascinated by dodecaphony not for its technique, but for the idea of freeing the twelve sounds of the musical scale to construct new sound constellations.

Compositional Technique

Serocki's 'Dwarfs' miniatures combine folk archetypes like mazurka and oberek rhythms, and kujawiak melodies, with the modality found in Hungarian and Romanian folklore by Béla Bartók.