Oginski Polonez Pozegnanie Ojczyzny best version ever- Wieslawa Bogaczewicz - Bieda video free download

Here played on an old Steinway piano which sings.(sorry about the clicking noise from camera zoom button)..

Original polish title Pozegnanie Ojczyzny--Oginski is the great unsung hero of Polish music ( late Mozart early Beethoven era ) whose polonaises profoundly influenced Chopin and how--here is your chance to sample this heart caressing piece--if it was good enough for Chopin it's good enough for us mere mortals- melancholia, romanza, obsession - all in one- a melting pot of emotion personified! Please let a pianist in the west take this up and popularise it the way Nigel Kennedy did Monti Csardas!

Wieslawa Bogaczewicz Bieda comes from a a family of musicians- her late husband Wieslaw was a great pianist, organist and an accordinist- her daughter Gosha ( Malgorzata) Bieda ( see "Rhapsody on a theme of Mozart" on youtube) is also a brilliant pianist and son Krzytof a guitarist- she studied in Warsaw and Krakow music academy and is a Piano teacher. She lives partly in Warsaw but mostly in beautiful lake region of Mragowo ( northern Poland).