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2020-02-25 19:13:00
Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1 – Christian Tetzlaff, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
[…] its form, and its further evolution, is one of the conditions for the development of our Polish music".Notwithstanding Szymanowski's cosmopolitan outlook, his First Violin Concerto reveals homegrown roots. It was conceived as a vehicle for Polish violinist Paul Kochanski (though exigencies of the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I caused a change in date, venue, and soloist for the premiere) and inspired by a poem by a member of the Young Poland writers' group, Tadeusz Micinski (1873-1918):All the birds pay tribute to mefor today I wed a goddess.And now we stand by the lake in crimson blossomin flowing tears of joy, with rapture and fear,burning in amorous conflagration.The intense, imagistic lines reveal the overlapping influences of Orientalism and French symbolism and set the stage for an intense and eclectic musical style unconfined by conventional formal procedures: "There is much that is new", expressed the composer, "but also something of a […]
2017-09-24 20:50:00
Szymanowski Songs for tenor - We mgłach
[…] fragmenty z poematów Jana Kasprowicza op 5 1902 (Three Fragments from Poems by Jan Kaprowicz) are epigrams, short and succint. Mazjner's delivery is elegant yet emotionally expressive. I can't find translations, but the songs are intriguing. Łabędź (The Swan) op 7 from 1904 to a poem by Tadeusz Berent is intense : whatever this swan might be, it's not serene. Most intriguing of all, Cztery pieśni (Four Songs) op 11 (1904-5) to poems b y Tadeusz Micinski (1873 - 1918). A long piano line moves purposefully forward. The vocal lines form patterns, words repeated with different variations. Something obssessive ?. "Straszą mnie widma i tajemne zbrodnie" (I'm scared of ghosts and secret crimes ?) Majzner's voice rises in heroic exclamation. What are these references to Druids and Thermopylae ? In the second song, we atre in an enchanted forest, like a child afraid of fairy tales. The vocal line elides, the […]
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