Szymanowski - Symphony No. 3 'The Song of the Night', Op. 27
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Szymanowski - Choral Works
Elzbieta Szmytka, Florence Quivar, John Connell & Jon Garrison
CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Three of Szymanowski's most important works show Rattle's ability to energise music in which he believes. Sensuality and cogency blend in refined sound. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Ben Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Edward Gardner
The BBC Symphony Chorus sings with languid exaltation, yet it is the orchestral detail that impresses most here, right from the still, mystery-laden opening...Gardner conducts with such conviction... — More…
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Szymanowski: Concertos, Orchestral & Choral Works
RecommendedIwona Sobotka, Timothy Robinson, Katarina Karnéus, Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Elzbieta Szmytka, Jadwiga Rappé, Philip Langridge & Thomas Hampson, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, with City of Birmingham...
Both these differing works [Song of the Night and Stabat Mater] are sensitively performed, giving the listener an excellent insight into the contrasting aspects of this composer's work. Rattle's... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53, etc.
Elzbieta Szmytka, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison, John Connell
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
The first impression here is that Rattle is relatively new to Szymanowski. There's a huge enthusiasm here, a missionary quality that bespeaks the recent convert. On the other hand the care over... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 & Stabat Mater
Toby Spence (tenor), Denis Matsuev (piano), Sally Matthews (soprano), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) & Kostas Smoriginas (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, with London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Matsuev has his feet...firmly planted on terra firma, the edgier writing displaying more of a kinship with Bartok until the gorgeous return to lushness in the second movement suggests an almost... — More…
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Szymanowski - Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
Ewa Marczyk (violin solo), Ryszard Minkiewicz (tenor)
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Szymanowski's Symphony No. 2 shows him beginning to approach his first maturity as a composer… In Symphony No. 3, composed five years later, the mature Szymanowski has arrived. Again, this... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Mariss Jansons conducts Lutoslawski, Szymanowski & A. Tchaikovsky
Rafał Bartmiński (tenor) & Andreas Röhn (solo violin), Nimrod Guez (viola)
Chor und Symhonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
A cultivated orchestra and witty conductor bring fairy lightness to the central Scherzo, yet they also summon up power in the virtuosic finale. — More…
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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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Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53, etc.
Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Valeri Polyansky
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