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Andrzej Krzanowski - Sonata for Solo Tuba

Sonata for Solo Tuba (1978) Zdzislaw Piernik, tuba Contrary to its title, suggesting a four-movement form, this is a one-movement piece made up of two contrasting themes, a very quick and a very slow one, both subjected to only slight transformations. The composer sticks to the traditional sonata idiom. Because of this and the very simple structure of the themes it is a piece very easy to listen to and at the same time very attractive owing to two qualities it combines, the virtuoso one (first theme) and the expressive one (the lyrical second theme). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I became aquainted with Zdzislaw Piernik in Torun. The master's performance on the tuba and the "prepared" tuba is, by European standards, a phenomenon. But can you compare performing on the tuba to a performance by Pollini or Szeryng? It is not possible ... too bad! Could it be that music in its heterogeneous nature is undemocratic? (all are apparently equal, some more equal - some adjectives do not yield easily to degrees of comparison: equal, common, average, etc.; negative adjectives are best compared, oh God, and how pleasant to compare them, how pleasant). Then music is undemocratic. But maybe our reasoning is faulty. Zdzislaw Piernik is beyond compare on the tuba. And perhaps this is important. He also performs an all-purpose instrument: into the "spirals" of the tuba he puts parts of different instruments; to realize in this wild and somewhat acrobatic means our (mine in particular) dream of a "multicoloristic" instrument. The bassoon and saxophone mouthpieces complete everything. The tone color of the tuba transforms and is rich in degrees previously unknown. Of course, this does not happen automatically, the master uses different overblowings, partially presses valves while he rages on this brass elephant with unprecedented lightness and fantasy. The best thing is that Zdzislaw performs on this super-tuba as if he were a connoisseur of contemporary structure (he isn't). He is gifted with great intuition which could arouse the envy of other instrumentalists. He has also contrived a beautiful gesture which I have never seen elsewhere: if the applause is very loud and long, he points to the tuba lying on the ground. He is a tuba phenomenon and an idealist! Fascinating on the tuba - that is to say victory of mind over matter. --Boguslaw Schäffer Art by Edyta Sobieraj