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What a surprise it was when my friend the pianist Julien Quentin introduced me to the music of Szymanowski several years ago. A world full of myths opened up, a landscape with fast streaming rivers where frightened nymphs timidly glanced back at lascivious satyrs with goat hooves. And full of colourful stories about the shepherd’s boy seduced by a princess, and the firebird hiding in the bushes.
In the three myths I recognised Ovid’s Metamorphoses. I managed to track down the poems of Szymanowski’s countryman Tadeusz Micinski, which inspired him. In pursuit of the composer’s roots, I visited his villa Atma, where I heard the wonderful music of the mountains of Zakopane, which had moved him as well. And so ‘Myth’ came into being, an issue imbued with the Polish soul, and including, from further afield, some Russian myths as well." (Rosanne Philippens)
Stravinsky: Berceuse
Stravinsky: Chanson Russe
Stravinsky: Scherzo from The Firebird
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Szymanowski: Mythes, Op. 30
Szymanowski: Nocturne & Tarantella, Op. 28
Szymanowski: Roxana's Song from the opera 'King Roger', for violin & piano
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
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