Orchestral, Overtures, Szymanowski (composer)
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 & Concert Overture
Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
These performances prove ideal, finding luminosity at the opening, and delivering a taut, energetic fugal finale...In the oberek dance rhythms of the orgiastic finale, Gardner shows how he has... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Szymanowski - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Ewa Marczyk (violin solo) & Marek Marczyk (viola solo), Marek Marczyk (viola solo), Jan Krzysztof Broja (piano) & Ewa Marczyk (violin solo)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
…the Symphony No. 4… receives the slowest recorded performance I know… At the opening, with timpani tolling away underneath, the piano traces a languorously decorative line. In the middle... —
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Great Singers & Musicians in Copenhagen 1931-1939
Historical ‘live’ recordings from the archive of Danish broadcasting
Denmarks Radio Symphony Orchestra
The sound quality throughout the set is often rather better than you might expect, given the clandestine nature of the enterprise and the age of the originals...What a wonderful privilege, being... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Re-issue of the Month
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Arensky, Miaskovsky and Szymanovsky: Orchestral Works
Igor Oistrakh (violin)
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, RTV Symphony Orchestra Moscow, Evgeny Svetlanov, Leonid Nikolayev, Vladimir Fedoseyev
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Szymanowski: Violin Concertos
Kaja Danczowska (violin), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazimierz Kord
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Wiesław Ochman (tenor), Tadeusz Żmudziński (piano), Polish State Philharmonic Chorus (Katowice), Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra (Katowice), Karol Stryja
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Karol Szymanowski: Modern Times
Ewa Kupiec (piano), Marisol Montalvo (soprano)
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens
… the music is wonderful… the pleasure of an encounter with this gorgeous music. —
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The Roaring Seventies
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Karita Mattila (soprano), Iwona Sobotka (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Christina Landshamer (soprano), Rachel Frenkel (mezzo-soprano), Andrè Schuen (baritone), Christian Van Horn (bass), Kostas Smoriginas (baritone), Harolyn Blackwell...
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Modern Times - Classical Discoveries
Magda Amara, Cong Gu, Ewa Kupiec (piano), Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens
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