This page lists all recordings of Métopes Op. 29 (Trois poèmes pour piano), by Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Szymanowski - Violin and Piano Music
Mikhail Rudy, Ulf Hoelscher & Michel Béroff | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Szymanowski - Piano Music
The impressionistic Métopes was composed in 1915, following a visit to Sicily. The title refers to the spaces on a classical frieze in which a sculptor would add decorative scenes, and each section depicts a character and location from Homer‘s Odyssey. One year later came the trilogy Masques, which portrays the story-telling Shéhérazade, an episode from the legend of Tristan and Isolde and a Sérénade de Don Juan. Soon after these examples of programme music, the composer returned to pure sonata form in the Third Sonata, his last major work for solo piano. This remains based in Impressionism, but also achieves a synthesis between that and the style of earlier works “Roland Pöntinen's generously filled and beautifully engineered recital features three of Szymanowski's most exotic and harmonically daring middle-period works together with a handful of Mazurkas that were composed near the end of his life. The Swedish pianist gives very persuasive accounts of these later more emotionally restrained pieces projecting their melodic lines with great sensitivity without disrupting their natural dance-like flow.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2009 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Piotr Anderszewski (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Sviatoslav Richter - The Master Volume 11
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Szymanowski: Piano Works
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| |  | Karol Szymanowski - Works For Solo Piano
Piotr Anderszewski (piano) “Anderszewski out-classes his rivals in his Szymanowski recital” BBC Music Magazine, Proms Issue 2005  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Szymanowski: Piano Works, Vol. 1
“If I find myself on the whole preferring Roscoe it is because I prefer Naxos's ample and natural piano sound to Nimbus's, which I find rather disembodied and, at the top of the instrument in staccato, somewhat brittle... the greater realism of Naxos's piano sound is more than adequate compensation. The very low price of the new version, and the fact that Naxos are issuing their Szymanowski series single CDs, are strong arguments in Roscoe's favour as well. A bargain, and strongly recommended.” Gramophone Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Piano XX - Vol. 1
Massimiliano Damerini (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Szymanowski - Complete Piano Music
Szymanowski: | Mazurkas (2), Op. 62 Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor Preludes (9), Op. 1 Variations in B flat minor, Op. 3 Etudes (4), Op. 4 Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8 Variations on a Polish Theme Op. 10 Fantasy for piano, Op. 14 Prelude in C Sharp minor (1901) first recording Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 21 Métopes Op. 29 (Trois poèmes pour piano) Etudes (12), Op. 33 Masques Op. 34 Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 36 Mazurkas (20), Op. 50 Valse Romantique Four Polish Dances |
This recording of the complete Piano music of Szymanowski is her début recording. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Gramophone Awards 2006
Gramophone Magazine