POLISH PIANIST BARBARA HESSE-BUKOWSKA (1930-2013) CDR

 

BARBARA HESSE-BUKOWSKA (ŁÓDŹ, POLAND, 8 FEBRUARY, 1930 – WARSAW, POLAND, 9 DECEMBER, 2013)

 

Her family had a long-standing musical history, as her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother was a pianist and teacher, and her grandfather was a piano tuner. Her mother was her first teacher. Her subsequent teachers included Czesław Aniołkiewicz and, at the Warsaw Conservatory, Maria Glińska-Wąsowska. Hesse-Bukowska graduated from Warsaw’s State Higher School of Music in June 1949. In the same year, she took part in the first postwar edition of the International Chopin Piano Competition, and won 2nd prize. Five years later, she went to Paris, where she continued studies with Arthur Rubinstein. She subsequently undertook an intercontinental concert career, which she combined with teaching at Wroclaw’s Higher School of Music. In 1972, Hesse-Bukowska became a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy. Her honours and awards included the Złoty Krzyż Zasługi (Cross of Merit; 1955) and the Order Sztandaru Pracy (Order of the Banner of Work) 2nd class (1959) and 1st class (1984). Outside of Poland, in 1962, she was awarded the Harriet Cohen Foundation’s Piano Medal.

TRACKLIST

 

2 Nocturnes, Op. 27 No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor (Chopin)

2 Polonaises, Op. 40 No. 1 in A Major Military (Chopin)

2 Waltzes, Op. 69 No. 1 in A-Flat Major L’adieu (Chopin)

3 Waltzes, Op. 64 No. 1 in D-Flat Major Minute (Chopin)

3 Waltzes, Op. 64 No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor (Chopin)

4 Mazurkas, Op. 33 No. 2 in D Major (Chopin)

12 Études, Op. 10 No. 3 in E Major Tristesse (Chopin)

Allegro De Concert in A Major, Op. 46 (Chopin)

Fantaisie-impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66 (Chopin)

Fugue in A minor, Op. Post. (Chopin)

Grande valse brillante in E-Flat Major, Op. 18 (Chopin)

Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.17 (Paderewski) Allegro… Romanza. Andante… Allegro molto vivace

Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op. 53 Heroic (Chopin)

Variation in E Major, Op. posth. ”Hexameron” (in Bellini’s Opera ”I Puritani”) (Chopin)

Variation in E Major, Op. posth. On the German National Theme ”Der Schweizerbub” (Chopin)

Variations Brillantes On Herold’s Favourite Rondo ”I Sell Sea-shells” from Ludovic”, Op. 12 (Chopin)

Variations for Flute and Piano, Op. posth. (Chopin) with Wlodzimierz Tomaszczuk (flute)