{"id":61124,"date":"2026-09-23T21:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/?post_type=ajde_events&#038;p=61124"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:31:32","slug":"raoul-koczalski-the-chopin-tradition-on-record","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/events\/raoul-koczalski-the-chopin-tradition-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Raoul Koczalski: The Chopin Tradition on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Presentation by Jakub Puchalski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raoul von Koczalski (1885\u20131948) occupies a unique place in the history of Chopin interpretation. A child prodigy, he began studying at the age of seven with&nbsp;<strong>Karol Mikuli<\/strong>, one of Chopin\u2019s pupils, establishing a direct link with the composer\u2019s own teaching tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Koczalski\u2019s playing is immediately striking for its fluency and grace, subtle phrasing and seamless legato. Yet perhaps its most distinctive\u2014and debated\u2014feature is his highly individual use of&nbsp;<strong>rubato<\/strong>. His recordings have long prompted discussion about Chopin\u2019s intentions and the performance practices inherited from the nineteenth century, inspiring both admiration and criticism. They invite today\u2019s listeners to reconsider familiar assumptions about rhythm, freedom and expression in Chopin\u2019s music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This landmark edition brings together&nbsp;<strong>Koczalski\u2019s complete commercial recordings<\/strong>, with Chopin at its core, including his complete recordings of the&nbsp;<strong>\u00c9tudes, Preludes and Ballades<\/strong>. Beyond their historical importance, these recordings offer an extraordinary opportunity to encounter a style of Chopin playing rooted in a tradition very different from that of the modern concert stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a live introduction, <strong>Jakub Puchalski<\/strong>, Polish writer and music critic specialist in historical pianists and author of the edition\u2019s booklet essays, will place these recordings in their artistic and historical context. He will explore the controversies surrounding Koczalski\u2019s interpretations, his connection with the Chopin tradition through Mikuli, as well as the more complex aspects of his biography, including his relationship with Nazi Germany and his return to Poland after the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentation offers a rare opportunity to listen to Koczalski not simply as a historical curiosity, but as a provocative witness to a lost\u2014or transformed\u2014tradition of Chopin performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61125,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[807,270,268,808],"event_type_2":[765],"class_list":["post-61124","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-sala-amati-en","event_type-conference","event_type-music-culture-en","event_type-piano-en","event_type-presentation","event_type_2-friday-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/61124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/61124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61428,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/61124\/revisions\/61428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61124"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=61124"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=61124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}