Szymanowski reviews
Virtuoso Dances
Linus Roth (violin), José Gallardo (piano) (Evil Penguin)
Il Cannone (Francesca Dego)
Francesca Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano) (Chandos)
Variations (Clare Hammond)
Clare Hammond (piano) (BIS)
Mythes: Works by Bartók, Ravel, Stravinsky et al
Jiyoon Lee, Henry Kramer (Champs Hill)
The Polish Violin: Works by Szymanowski, Moszkowski & Karłowicz
Jennifer Pike & Petr Limonov (Chandos)
Debargue and Darkness: Schubert and Szymanowski
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Fantasia: Anne Akiko Meyers performs Szymanowski and Ravel
Anne Akiko Meyers commissioned Rautavaara to compose this Fantasia, and it was one of the Finnish composer’s final pieces before his death in 2016. Like many of his later works it’s elegiac in character, with a strong, lush tonal base: a warm cushion of orchestral sound supporting the continuous solo line, which hardly has a rest after the first entry.