Kinga Augustyn – A Portrait (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kinga Augustyn – A Portrait (2022)
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Polish-American Kinga Augustyn is a versatile New York City-based virtuoso concert violinist and recording artist. “Stylish and vibrant” (The Strad Magazine), and “beyond amazing, one hell of a violinist!” (The Fanfare Magazine), Ms. Augustyn has performed as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe and Asia, and they include the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum, the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, Queens Symphony and the Riverside Symphonia. She has toured China and performed at China’s most prestigious venues such as Beijing Poly Theater and Shanghai Oriental Art Center. As a recitalist and chamber musician Kinga has appeared at the Stern Auditorium and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Aspen Music Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center and Teatro Ristori in Verona, Italy. In addition to concerti with orchestras and recitals with piano, Ms. Augustyn frequently performs unaccompanied solo violin recitals and is also a member of the Baroque Virtuosity trio with lutist Christopher Morrongiello and harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky.

Kinga Augustyn is often praised for her musical interpretations, profundity, deft phrasing, beautiful tone, mastery of the bow, perfect intonation, and for unique programming ideas. “With completely secure technical control, she couples a tapestry of tone color to her innate musicality” (The Fanfare Magazine). Music Web International describes her recording of the Bruch Violin Concerto with Janacek Philharmonic as “extremely moving and expressive,” characterized by “beauty, richness and smoothness of her tone,” and as “music she responds to on a deeply personal and emotional level.”

Ms. Augustyn’s repertoire includes music both standard and lesser–known, stylistically varied and ranging from early baroque to contemporary. Kinga is an advocate of new music and has performed and recorded multiple world premieres of works written especially for her. She also researches and brings awareness to lesser-known composers, including those of her native Poland. Up to date, Augustyn has recorded three albums of Polish music. Grażyna Bacewicz: A Portrait will be released in September 2022 on Centaur Records. The other two albums, released on Naxos, are world premieres by the contemporary Polish composer Romuald Twardowski (b. 1930), recorded with the Torun Symphony Orchestra and Mariusz Smolij, and the Polish Violin Music, a highly praised, “fascinating” (The Strad) album of lesser-known Polish works.

In 2021 Augustyn released on Centaur Records Turning in Time, a critically acclaimed album featuring 20th and 21st Century unaccompanied solo violin works by Krzysztof Penderecki (world premiere of Capriccio), Debra Kaye (world premiere of Turning in Time), as well as other works, significant in the violin repertoire, by Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Isang Yun and Grażyna Bacewicz. Gramophone calls the album “remarkable” and praises Augustyn for “vibrant intensity, caressing the phrases and bringing bold focus to the electric unfolding of creativity”.

Tracklist:

1-1. Kinga Augustyn – I. Allegro (05:31)
1-2. Kinga Augustyn – II. Adagio (05:15)
1-3. Kinga Augustyn – III. — (05:31)
1-4. Kinga Augustyn – IV. Variazioni (08:23)
1-5. Kinga Augustyn – Polish Capriccio for Solo Violin (02:29)
1-6. Kinga Augustyn – Polish Capriccio No. 2 for Solo Violin (03:02)
1-7. Kinga Augustyn – I. Allegro moderato (01:10)
1-8. Kinga Augustyn – II. Andante (02:04)
1-9. Kinga Augustyn – III. Vivace (01:23)
1-10. Kinga Augustyn – Melody for Violin & Piano (02:41)
1-11. Kinga Augustyn – Stained Glass for Violin & Piano (02:51)
1-12. Kinga Augustyn – I. Allegro (02:03)
1-13. Kinga Augustyn – II. Andante (02:28)
1-14. Kinga Augustyn – III. Vivo (03:08)
1-15. Kinga Augustyn – Scherzo for Solo Violin (03:49)
1-16. Kinga Augustyn – Capriccio for Violin & Piano (01:54)
1-17. Kinga Augustyn – Lullaby for Violin & Piano (03:20)
1-18. Kinga Augustyn – No. 1, — (02:28)
1-19. Kinga Augustyn – No. 2, — (02:26)
1-20. Kinga Augustyn – No. 3, — (02:27)
1-21. Kinga Augustyn – No. 4, — (02:43)

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