Ignacy Krzyzanowski Œuvres pour piano vol 2 Lamy - AP0463 - Acte Préalable - Classique

Ignacy Krzyzanowski bénéficie d’un second volume de ses œuvres présentées en première mondiale. Dix opus témoignent du talent du compositeur qui rencontra Liszt puis Chopin. Il prit des cours avec lui et Krzyzanowski évoque en détail, dans le livret, des rencontres parisiennes avec son illustre compatriote polonais. Le catalogue du musicien se compose, pour l’essentiel, de miniatures et se referme par la grande Sonate en si bémol majeur datée de 1882. L’influence de Chopin y est marquante, mais contrairement à son illustre confrère, Krzyzanowski ne développe pas un langage audacieux sur le plan harmonique. Il puise dans le folklore des danses nationales polonaises (mazurkas, cracoviennes, polonaises) auxquelles il associe une écriture profondément lyrique. Les mélodies sont ravissantes, la technique pianistique rarement d’une grande complexité à l’exception de la Grande Polonaise d’une certaine virtuosité et, surtout de la Sonate d’une durée de près d’une demi-heure. Là encore, c’est le chant qui prime, la manière de raconter une histoire, de jouer avec des personnages imaginaires. Laurent Lamy joue cette page comme s’il s’agissait d’une improvisation. Il en restitue la fraîcheur naturelle, le pressentiment du lied dans le mouvement central, Andante cantabile. Une belle œuvre à découvrir. (Jean Dandrésy)

We have only a few facts about Krzyzanowski’s life. The composer was born in Opatów near Kielce, Poland, on 24 December 1826. He started to study the piano under his father Adam, a music teacher. Around 1840 he left for Krakow to continue his musical education with Franciszek Mirecki (1791–1862), a composer and teacher well-known in Europe. His first public appearances followed. Without doubt the most important of these was when Franz Liszt was in the audience, in the course of one of his rare visits to Poland. The famous virtuoso was impressed by the young Krzyzanowski’s playing of his William Tell Fantasy, and he advised him to complete his studies at the Paris Conservatoire. The young musician arrived in Paris at the end of 1843 and was to stay for five years. He studied harmony, composition and music theory with Hyppolite Colet, who was also the teacher of Henryk Wieniawski. From 1844 to 1848 Ignace Krzyzanowski had lessons with Frédéric Chopin. On 5 July 1848 Chopin played in the inaugural recital of his pupil’s English tour. Crowned with success, Krzyzanowski returned to Paris where he came to the attention of Sigismond Thalberg. In 1848, he returned to Krakow for health reasons. There he made the acquaintance of the cellist Samuel Kossowski and worked with the guitarist Stanislaw Szczepanowski during the 1848–1849 season. After this he left for Warsaw and his arrival in the capital was to open a new chapter in his life and gave him new prospects of development.(...)