{"id":1971,"date":"2025-11-20T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/fallen-angel-new-album\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:54:00","slug":"fallen-angel-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/fallen-angel-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Angel \u2013 the new album!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFallen Angel\u201d is Mateusz Smoczy\u0144ski\u2019s second symphonic album, following the warmly<\/strong>\u00a0received \u201cAdam\u2019s Apple\u201d (Warner Music, 2024), whose title concerto opened a new chapter in the artist\u2019s work \u2014 a chapter that \u201cFallen Angel\u201d extends and deepens. It is the second symphonic work by the violinist and composer to appear on Warner Music Poland. The concerto was recorded with Dominik Wania and the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw under the direction of Micha\u0142 Klauza.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The first taste of the album is the fourth movement of the concerto \u2014 \u201cFire\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFire\u201d is the most dynamic and predatory passage of the concerto. A pulsing orchestra and a piano driving the narrative forward build an intense, almost trance-like fabric, out of which burst bold, electrifying improvisations on the electric violin. This is music that sets the emotions alight \u2014 there is energy in it, there is bravura, and there is fire.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cFallen Angel\u201d \u2014 Concerto for violin, piano and symphony orchestra<\/h2>\n

This concerto for violin, piano and symphony orchestra is an eight-movement story poised between jazz improvisation and symphonic drama. Smoczy\u0144ski drew inspiration both from the provocative phrase \u2014 and the piano concerto \u2014 by John Adams, \u201cMust the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?\u201d, and from the biblical motif of revolt, fall and redemption.<\/p>\n

The composer weaves the classical concerto form together with his own fascinations: Chopin, Brahms, Szymanowski and contemporary rock. The piece has two equal solo voices \u2014 the violin, played by the composer himself, and the piano, originally entrusted to Janusz Olejniczak, a master of Chopin interpretation, to whom \u201cFallen Angel\u201d is dedicated and who gave its premiere. On the recording the piano part was taken by Dominik Wania \u2014 an outstanding jazz improviser \u2014 who brought a new dimension of expression and musical intuition to the work.<\/p>\n

\u201cFallen Angel\u201d is a musical parable \u2014 of revolt, madness and mourning, leading towards the light. Smoczy\u0144ski guides the listener through extremes of sound, joining the freedom of jazz improvisation with the sweep of the symphony orchestra, in homage to an artist who had inspired him for years with the depth of his expression.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}