Karol Szymanowski: Symphonien Nr.1 & 4 (CD)

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)

Jan Krzysztof Broja, Antoni Wit

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+Concert Overture op. 12; Study op. 4 Nr. 3

Artists:: Jan Krzysztof Broja, Warsaw PO, Antoni Wit
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2006-2008
Item number:: 5557315
UPC/EAN:: 0747313072279
Release date:: 30.3.2009

Although Szymanowski later dubbed his First Symphony a "contrapuntal-harmonic-orchestral monster" and disavowed the influence of Wagner, Reger and Richard Strauss (also evident in the opulent Concert Overture), it is an astonishingly powerful work by a composer only in his mid-20s and still enthralls a century after its première. He described his Fourth Symphony as "nearly a concerto" owing to the piano's prominent rôle, its highly-charged Neo-baroque character inviting comparison with Stravinsky. Szymanowski's Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 gained Gramophone Editor's Choice and 5 STARS for these "deliriously sensual scores" from ClassicFM (8.570721)."

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Concert Overture, Op. 12
2 Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 15: I. [Allegro moderato]
3 Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 15: II. Finale: Allegretto con moto grazioso
4 Symphony No. 4, Op. 60, "Symphonie Concertante": I. Moderato - Tempo comodo
5 Symphony No. 4, Op. 60, "Symphonie Concertante": II. Andante molto sostenuto
6 Symphony No. 4, Op. 60, "Symphonie Concertante": III. Allegro non troppo, ma agitato ed ansioso
7 4 Studies, Op. 4: No. 3. Andante in modo d'una canzona (arr. G. Fitelberg): Study in B flat minor, Op. 4, No. 3 (arr. G.