On 19 December 2025, the Acte Préalable label will release the album Grzegorz Fitelberg. Harmonie odrodzenia (AP0611).
The project “Harmonie odrodzenia” is an important gesture toward the protection and popularisation of Polish musical heritage, restoring to the world the works of Grzegorz Fitelberg—a composer of European stature. It includes the reconstruction, scholarly editing, and first-ever recordings of three of Fitelberg’s compositions.
The Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 13—a work never before performed publicly—was reconstructed by the young composer and pianist Józef Domżał (the surviving sources include complete manuscripts of the solo part for the first two movements and the first 69 bars of the finale). Based on manuscripts of the woodwind and string parts preserved at the University of Warsaw Library, he also reconstructed the score of the monumental Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 20. The Polish Rhapsody, Op. 25, published in 1914, has been almost absent from concert and recording repertoire until now.
On 31 October 2025, the project’s inaugural concert took place in the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where the audience heard the reconstructed works of Fitelberg performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of Music under the baton of Zygmunt Rychert, with violinist Wojciech Niedziółka as soloist. On that day, for the first time in history, Fitelberg’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 13, reconstructed by Józef Domżał, was performed, along with the Polish Rhapsody and Symphony No. 2.
A recording session took place on 3–9 November, resulting in the world premiere recordings of these works. Piotr Grinholc was responsible for sound engineering. The project was initiated and overseen artistically by Prof. Andrzej Kacprzak, Vice-Rector for Artistic Affairs. Organisational coordination was handled by Dr. Mirosław Pachowicz.
The album was produced with the support of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.
Funded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the “Musical Trace” programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Additional information: www.amuz.gda.pl
