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Mozart Fantasy in C minor

( 1973 studio recording )

VIDEO: Muczynski Six Preludes
Opus 6 (1929)

Kozuch & Muczynski - a musical friendship

Thaddeus Kozuch and Robert Muczynski were friends.  They met at DePaul University while Robert was studying music composition and piano.  Thaddeus Kozuch performed a number of Muczynski's works over the years, including these preludes, recorded in his home studio on March 26, 1986.  The preludes are titled:

1. Vivace  (at ~0:07)

2. Lento (at ~0:53)

3. Allegro giocoso (at ~2:03)

4. Allegretto meno mosso (at ~2:51)

5. Moderato (at ~4:00)

6. Allegro marcato (at ~5:00)

Muczynski Suite Opus 13 (1960)

Thaddeus Kozuch and Robert Muczynski were friends and music collaborators.  Although undocumented,

Thaddeus Kozuch most likely gave the world premier performance of Muczynski's Suite from 1960.  

The suite has six movements titled: 

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1. Festival   2. Flight   3. Vision   4. Labyrinth   5. Phantom   6. Scherzo

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This is a performance given at Thaddeus Kozuch's final DePaul University Faculty Recital in 1979. 

Here we have the 1980 Thaddeus Kozuch studio recording of Prokofiev's "Diabolical Suggestion",

exhilarating in its raw terror.  Prokofiev’s Suggestion Diabolique is the ghoulishly demonic final movement of the 1908 Four Pieces for Piano Opus 4. 

Here is an encore performance from the 1986 Moraine Valley Community College recital.

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Thaddeus Kozuch often ended his recitals with this Prokofiev crowd-pleaser.

Thaddeus Kozuch performed several of Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas.

Here we have the 1974 DePaul faculty recital performance of the 6th Sonata.

Prokofiev's Sonata #6 is a Kozuch "tour de force" performance.

For an earlier and equally fabulous recording of this Prokofiev sonata (see below).

This is an early 1947 studio disc of the same 6th Sonata that exemplifies Kozuch's consistently brilliant keyboard artistry.

Here is the Prokofiev Piano Sonata #7, composed in 1942.

This is Thaddeus Kozuch's 1970 studio recording.

The middle movement presents very subtle pedal moments.

The final movement is a hair-raising technical display.

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