This wonderful new American opera, based on the unforgettable Tennessee Williams play, has been broadcast around the world and recorded live on Deutsche Grammaphon, and it's been a big hit ever since its premiere last year at the San Francisco Opera. Libretto by Philip Littell. Instrumental parts available for rental.

"While composing the piece I had in mind young soloists, but the work can also be performed by two members of the violin section of the orchestra. The piece is comprised of three contrasting movements."

Molto larghissimo; allegro boffo
Menuetto con brio ma senza trio
Adagio saccharino
Yehudi menuetto
Presto hey nonny nonnio

''The form of ''Returning Waves'', in accordance with its poetic design, is created after the fashion of a many-stranded 'stream of consciousness''. The fluent succession of contrasting musical pictures permeated by the primary process of development and rising tension. The first subject, which is particularly prominent, recurs in various forms in the course of the composition, often being reduced to its introductory motif. The successive subjects and their evolutionary groupings are integrated into certain primary musical wholes. [Leszek Polony]

Cover Design: Janusz Wysocki
Editor of graphic design: Janusz Wysocki
Introduction by: Leszek Polony
Series: Karłowicz - Works
ISMN 979-0-2740-1721-7
Language of edition: eng, ger, pol
Number of pages: 116
Cover: hardcover
Published: 2016
Type: score
Size: N4 vertical (235x305 mm)

The manuscript to the Impromptu, located in the library of the Warsaw Music Society, is dated ''Berlin, November, December 1895'', i.e. the composer was just turning 19 when he wrote the work. The pieces romantic style reflects a strong influence of Tchaikovsky, who had died only two years earlier.

prologue et un acte de "la torture par l'expérience" du conte Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,
"da"La Légende d'Eulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak" di Charles de Coster