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Anderszewski out-classes his rivals in his Szymanowski recital — BBC Music Magazine, Proms Issue 2005 More…

Release Date: 6th Jun 2005
Catalogue No: 5457302
Label: Erato
Length: 67 minutes

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Szymanowski: Masques (3), Op. 34

Work length25:21

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Recorded: 2004-12-29
Recording Venue: 23, 24th & 27-29th December 2004. Pomeranian Concert Hall, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Scheherazade / Shéhérazade (lento assai, languido)

Track length11:53

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Blazen Tantris / Tantris the Clown (vivace assai, buffo e caproccioso)

Track length6:11

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Serenada Din Juana / Don Juan's Serenade (vivace, quasi imprivvisando)

Track length7:17

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Szymanowski: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 36

Work length21:47

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Recorded: 2004-12-29
Recording Venue: 23, 24th & 27-29th December 2004. Pomeranian Concert Hall, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

I. Presto (leggiero e delicamente)

Track length7:36

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II. Adagio. Mesto

Track length5:51

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III. Assai vivace. Scherzando

Track length1:22

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IV. Fuga. Allegro moderato. Scherzando e buffo

Track length6:58

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Szymanowski: Métopes Op. 29 (Trois poèmes pour piano)

Work length20:04

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Recorded: 2004-12-29
Recording Venue: 23, 24th & 27-29th December 2004. Pomeranian Concert Hall, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Wyspa syren / The Isle of Siren (lento, molto rubato e improvisando)

Track length7:21

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Kalipso / Calypso

Track length6:55

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Nauzykaa / Nausicaa

Track length5:48

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Proms Issue 2005

Anderszewski out-classes his rivals in his Szymanowski recital

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Here Anderszewski turns his attention away from well-tried classics of the repertoire to Szymanowski and to 'an aura of extreme fin de siècle opulence' (John Ogdon). Szymanowski's neurotically questing imagination was fired by his travels in Africa and the Mediterranean; and leaving earlier influences of Chopin (the Op 1 Preludes) and a lengthy dalliance with Reger and Richard Strauss (the Second Piano Sonata) far behind, he turned to impressionism, to Debussy and the glittering, mosaic-like structures he inherited from Scriabin.
Yet despite such influences his music achieves a unique fragrance and character and both Masques and Métopes shed a new and scintillating light on the myths of ancient Greece. Such music calls for a pianist of unlimited, superfine virtuosity and a complete temperamental affinity for such exoticism, and in Anderszewski it has surely found its ideal champion. Under his astonishing mind and fingers the chains of trills at the climax of 'Schéhérazade' take on an incandescence that transcends their Scriabinesque origins and Anderszewski's razor-sharp clarity and stylistic assurance make you hang on every one of the composer's teeming notes.
Here and in Métopes every hyper-nervous fluctuation of mood is judged to an uncanny perfection and in the Third Sonata, where Szymanowski returns from his richly programmatic sources to a more objective if no less intricate utterance, every aspect of the music's refined and energetic life is held in a blazing light from which it is impossible to escape. Visceral and superhuman, all these performances have been superbly recorded.

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