KISIELEWSKI STEFAN
TIME TRAVEL
Paris 1982, Instytut Literacki, pp. 135, format: 13.5x21cm
"While practicing his self-appointed job as a judge of new music, Kisiel did not forget its fathers, first and foremost Stravinsky. We all of him seems to say in his texts the author of Time Travel for String Orchestra created in 1965. Is it a sentimental journey to the times of his youth, i.e. to the undercurrent of Parisian neoclassicism under Satie, Les Six and also Stravinsky's neoclassical persiflage? Yes and no. Kisielewski's music, in each and every piece, has such an individual expression that it is difficult to subordinate it to any general idea, although one would like to place this particular Time Travel in the current described as neoclassical parodism44. The music of this eight-minute piece is cheerful-sad, or more precisely: cheerful-sad-happy, because it is clearly arranged in ABA1 form, which already links it to the original neoclassicism, which evoked this three-part form very often. The contrast between the extreme phases of this one-movement piece and its middle section is so clear that some deeper, perhaps not fully realized meanings can be sought here; after all, a journey to the origins of time sometimes reveals the painful sides of existence and history." [M. Gąsiorowska, Kisielewski, PWM 2011].
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