Bartłomiej Nizioł, the violinist on this recording, won first prizes at the International Henryk Wieniawski Competition and the International Violin Competition in Adelaide in 1991, while still a student.
Composition History
Wieniawski's Fantaisie brillante sur des motifs de l'opéra Faust de Gounod, Op 20, was one of several showpieces based on Gounod's Faust written by virtuoso violinists of the time.
Composer Biography
Zygmunt Stojowski, the composer of the Violin Concerto and Romanze, gave his first concert with orchestra at age fifteen, performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with his own cadenza.
Composer Biography
Stojowski met Tchaikovsky in Paris, and later translated for him at the British premiere of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony in London in 1893.
Composition History
Stojowski's Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 22, is dedicated to Władysław Górski, a violinist and composer who was Stojowski's teacher and the work's first interpreter.
Composer Biography
Henryk Wieniawski, the composer of the Fantaisie brillante, was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at only nine years old and later replaced Henry Vieuxtemps as violin professor at the Brussels Conservatoire.
Composition History
The Romanze in E flat major, Op 20, is dedicated to Jacques Thibaud, a French violinist, and may have been written to commemorate his meeting with Stojowski at the inaugural season of the Warsaw Philharmonic.
