Several recordings by Polish artists have begun to illuminate the songs of Karol Szymanowski, partially obscured outside of Poland by linguistic considerations. Consider the Four Songs to Words, Op. 41, by Rabindranath Tagore, recorded here: Szymanowski worked from a Polish translation of a German translation of Tagore's Bengali poetry, and one wonders about the relation of the final result to the original. This is nevertheless a fine survey of Szymanowski's large body of art song, touching on works from various stages of ...
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Several recordings by Polish artists have begun to illuminate the songs of Karol Szymanowski, partially obscured outside of Poland by linguistic considerations. Consider the Four Songs to Words, Op. 41, by Rabindranath Tagore, recorded here: Szymanowski worked from a Polish translation of a German translation of Tagore's Bengali poetry, and one wonders about the relation of the final result to the original. This is nevertheless a fine survey of Szymanowski's large body of art song, touching on works from various stages of his career and furnished with enthusiastic and erudite (if awkwardly translated) liner notes indicating the place of each set in the composer's vocal output as a whole. While Szymanowski was clearly aware of artistic currents in Vienna and Berlin in the early years of the twentieth century, his music has an appealingly personal style that persists through a series of stylistic shifts. He reveals himself, in the songs here, as a superb melodist with an ability to weld music and text...
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