JOZEF SLIWINSKI (WARSAW, 15 DECEMBER, 1865 – WARSAW, 4 MARCH, 1930)
He was taught by Theodor Leschetizky and Anton Rubinstein. For many years he was professor of piano at the Riga Conservatory. He lived in Warsaw from 1918. A man of aristocratic bearing, Sliwinski studied with Leschetizky in Vienna for four years before going on to have lessons from Rubinstein in St. Petersburg. He taught in Russia for some time at the Saratov Conservatory, and toured around 1900 with some success. He was a famous proponent of the weight technique, by which the weight of the arm in the depression of the keys was supposed to produce a more powerful resonance in the note, and indeed he had a deep and affecting tone. He played with great emotional power and expressiveness, and was at his best in the larger-scale works of Chopin and Schumann, though without exploiting the heroic side of Chopin’s writing. He also established himself as a conductor. His technique became unreliable in later years, but he was greatly admired as a poet of the keyboard. Among his pupils were Juliusz Wertheim, Stanislas Niedzielski and Julian Clifford.
TRACKLIST
WELTE-MIGNON 550 CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op. 62, No. 2, E
WELTE-MIGNON 551 CHOPIN – Impromptu No. 2, Op. 36, F#
WELTE-MIGNON 552 CHOPIN – Impromptu No. 3, Op. 51, Gb
WELTE-MIGNON 553 ROSSINI-LISZT – “Soireés musicales”, No. 10: La Serenata
WELTE-MIGNON 554 SCHUBERT-LISZT – Margaret at the Spinning Wheel
WELTE-MIGNON 555 LISZT – La Leggierezza – Grand Concert Etude – No. 2, f
WELTE-MIGNON 557 TCHAIKOVSKY – Piano Sonata, Op. 37, G 2nd mvt.
WELTE-MIGNON 558 TCHAIKOVSKY – Piano Sonata, Op. 37, G 3rd mvt.
WELTE-MIGNON 598 ROSSINI-LISZT – Soireés de Viennes (Vienna Evenings): No. 7, Ab
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