The Pianist [Music from the Motion Picture] [Brown Vinyl] [B&N Exclusive]

by Janusz Olejniczak, Wojciech Kilar

Overview

Director Roman Polanski's film The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish classical pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman about his harrowing experiences under the Nazi occupation of Warsaw during World War II. The soundtrack album consists almost entirely of Chopin piano pieces, most of them played by Janusz Olejniczak. Most of those, in turn, are solo performances, although Olejniczak is joined by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Tadeusz Strugala, for Grand Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra. The sole non-Chopin track is the excerpt from Wojciech Kilar's score, "Moving to the Ghetto October 31, 1940," a klezmer-like piece running only 1:45 in which Hanna Wolczedska plays clarinet, accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic. Appropriately, the album ends with an actual recording by Szpilman of the Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	11/18/2022
Label:	MASTERWORKS
UPC:	0196587221713

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Janusz Olejniczak   Primary Artist,Piano
Wojciech Kilar   Primary Artist
Wladyslaw Szpilman   Primary Artist,Piano
Warsaw Philharmonic National Orchestra Of Poland   Orchestra
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra   Orchestra
Tadeusz Strugala   Conductor
Andrzej Szpilman   Piano
Hanna Wolczeska   Clarinet
Hanna Wolczedska   Clarinet

Technical Credits

Rafal Paczkowski   Engineer
Dirk Lachmann   Technical Director,Technical Supervisor
Mark Burdett   Art Direction
Pat Jerina   Package Design
Guy Ferrandis   Cover Photo
Paul Cremo   Executive Producer
Stanislaw Dybowski   Producer,Artistic Director
Andrzej Szpilman   Mastering
Markus Karl Stratmann   Music Editor
Wojciech Kilar   Composer
Frederic Chopin   Composer
John Luard Timperley   Mixing,Recording
Rafael Paczkowski   Engineer
Roman Polanski   Liner Notes
John Timperly   Recording,Mixing,Engineer
Marcus Herzog   Producer