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There are fine recordings of Harnasie in the current catalogue including an exciting performance from Rattle and the CBSO on EMI. This new versions from Antoni Wit… enjoys the benefit of equally... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2009
Catalogue No: 8570723
Label: Naxos
Length: 73 minutes

Excerpt, Szymanowski: Harnasie, Op. 55

Work length5:06

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Wieslaw Ochman
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Tableau 1: Redyk (Driving the sheep)

Track length5:06

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Szymanowski: Harnasie, Op. 55, Tableau 1

Work length2:14

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Wieslaw Ochman
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Scena mimiczna, "zaloty" (Mimic Scene, "Courtship")

Track length2:14

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Excerpt, Szymanowski: Harnasie, Op. 55

Work length1:42

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Wieslaw Ochman
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Tableau 1: Marsz zbojnicki (the Tatra Robbers' March)

Track length1:42

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Szymanowski: Harnasie, Op. 55, Tableau 1

Work length3:43

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Wieslaw Ochman
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Scena mimiczna, "Harnas i Dziewczyna" (Mimic Scene, "the Harnas and the Girl")

Track length3:43

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Szymanowski: Harnasie, Op. 55

Work length23:16

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Wieslaw Ochman
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Tableau 1: Taniec zbojnicki - Final (the Tatra Robbers' Dance - Finale)

Track length4:41

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Tableau 2: Wesele (the Wedding)

Track length2:35

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Tableau 2: Cepiny (Entry of the Bride)

Track length1:56

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Tableau 2: Piesn siuhajow (Drinking Song)

Track length1:18

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Tableau 2: Taniec goralski (the Tatra Highlanders' Dance)

Track length4:20

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Tableau 2: Napad harnasiow - Taniec (Raid of the Harnasie - Dance)

Track length5:25

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Tableau 2: Epilog (Epilogue)

Track length3:01

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Szymanowski: Mandragora, Op. 43, Scene 1

Work length10:13

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Alexander Pinderak
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Szymanowski: Mandragora, Op. 43, Scene 2

Work length6:15

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Alexander Pinderak
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Szymanowski: Mandragora, Op. 43, Scene 3

Work length10:23

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Alexander Pinderak
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Szymanowski: Kniaz Patiomkin (Prince Potemkin), Op. 51, Kniaz Patiomkin [Prince Potemkin]

Work length10:10

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Ewa Marciniec
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Incidental Music to Act V, Op. 51

Track length10:10

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Multiple prize-winner and Grammy award nominee for several of his Naxos recordings, Antoni Wit is one of today’s most highly regarded Polish conductors, an ideal interpreter of the exotic, colourfully scored music of Karol Szymanowski, described by Sir Simon Rattle as “one of the greatest composers of this century”.

The ballet-pantomime Harnasie and the incidental music for Prince Potemkin both draw on the folk-music of the people of the Tatra Mountains, while the ballet Mandragora was composed for a production of Molière’s comedy Le bourgeois gentilhomme.

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April 2009

There are fine recordings of Harnasie in the current catalogue including an exciting performance from Rattle and the CBSO on EMI. This new versions from Antoni Wit… enjoys the benefit of equally outstanding sound but boasts a more idiomatic interpretation with a particularly earthy performance from tenor Wieslaw Ochman and the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir. The couplings are no less fascinating. Both works are delivered here in authoritative performances - a marvellous addition to this much-praised Szymanowski series.

2010

The ballet Harnasie is a powerful complement to the opera King Roger, giving similarly Dionysian subject-matter a very different dramatic setting.
Szymanowski's joyous embrace of folk idioms in Harnasie, and his relish for exploring them in ways which retain certain points of contact with his earlier late-romantic opulence, invites comparisons with Bartók and Janácek in the years after the First World War. But Harnasie has a very personal, Polish aura to it, well projected in this robust yet technically secure account by Antoni Wit and his Warsaw forces, including brief contributions from the veteran yet still strong-voiced Wiespaw Ochman.
The other examples of Szymanowski's theatre music are rarities, and neither quite convinces as a concert work. Mandragora was designed for a 1920 Warsaw production of Molière's Le bourgeoisgentilhomme and depicts, all too episodically, the mugging and mayhem of various attempts to entertain the assembled company – a scenario best known from Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. The incidental music Szymanowski provided in 1925 for the final act of Prince Potemkin, a Polish play about Russian history, was left in manuscript during the composer's lifetime, and he might well have been surprised to learn of its revival apart from its original function. While not entirely lacking in character, it comes across as rather dull, even in a performance as accomplished, committed and decently recorded as this one.

June 2009

…Harnasie has a very personal, Polish aura to it, well projected in this robust yet technically secure account by Antoni Wit and his Warsaw forces, including brief contributions from the veteran yet still strong-voiced Wieslaw Ochman.

27th February 2009

The Polish performance [of Harnasie] under Antoni Wit is efficient without being refined, though the other two works here - the pantomime Mandragora, and the 10 minutes of incidental music written for a play in 1925 - have rarity value.

15th March 2009

It's strange that the gorgeously rhapsodic, folk-influenced music of Karol Szymanowski has not established a stronger place in the repertory. The pieces on this new disc are real rarities, yet anyone who responds to Stravinsky's Petrushka would love the exciting "ballet-pantomime" Harnasie, with its sudden outbursts of choral singing and solo tenor, and the Prince Potemkin music uses its folk-tune sources well. The real oddity is the pantomime Mandragora, an intermezzo for a Molière play in 20th-century style, with an eerie speaker repeatedly intoning the title word. Conductor Antoni Wit is the master of this strange but beautiful Polish idiom.

Szymanowski - Harnasie

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