Click Musique!, the French magazine dedicated to classical and jazz music, publishes in its July-August edition a review of the album “Grzegorz Fitelberg, Symfonia e-moll op. 16” (Grzegorz Fitelberg, Symphony in E minor, Op. 16) recorded by Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra under Łukasz Borowicz. The well-known French critic Jean-Charles Hofelé writes about the recording awarded the Sélection ClicMag! distinction:

“Shall Grzegorz Fitelberg forever remain forgotten amongst the composers of the Młoda Polska (Young Poland) movement? His illustrious conducting career – to a large degree concentrated on advocating and promoting works by Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz – pushed Fitelberg-composer into oblivion. The discovery of his 1904 Symphony, and its first-ever recording made by Łukasz Borowicz and his Poznań-based ensemble [Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra] will unquestionably change this situation. Clearly inspired by Richard Strauss, the masterly orchestration of this voluminous score of fulgent architecture puts the orchestra in the spotlight. The symphony is testimony to mature artistic inventiveness, which produces in the Andante a motif of profound beauty.

Standing at the very turning point of different epochs, the work’s dark keys appear to harbinger Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 2. In the wake of the idiosyncrasies of the Mahler-redolent Scherzo (Fitelberg being an ardent proponent of the author of Song of the Earth), the captivating, feverish final part ushers in a charming post-Romantic quality. And all this without falling into epigonism.

Łukasz Borowicz is renowned for the consistency with which he carries out his projects; without a doubt, he going to discover for us the Violin Concerto, “Spring”, the Rhapsodies, and Symphony No. 2.”