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Szymanowski: Complete Songs voice & piano

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Urszula Kryger (mezzo), Iwona Sobotka (soprano) & Reinild Mees (piano)

Szymanowski: Complete Songs voice & piano
This set proposes a kind of luxury musical package- tour for the jet-set age – today expressionist Austria, tomorrow Slavic fantasy, the day after high-romanticism in Germany, and then away...

Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

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Szymanowski: Complete Songs voice & piano

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Urszula Kryger (mezzo), Iwona Sobotka (soprano) & Reinild Mees (piano)

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This set proposes a kind of luxury musical package- tour for the jet-set age – today expressionist Austria, tomorrow Slavic fantasy, the day after high-romanticism in Germany, and then away...

Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

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  • Release date: 6th Sep 2004
  • Label: Channel Classics
  • Catalogue number: CCS19398
  • Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Szymanowski: Lieder (6), Op. 2
Work length13:08
No. 1, The World is Left Far Behind
Track length2:34
No. 2, You are Not Dead
Track length1:52
No. 3, In the Mists
Track length1:47
No. 4, Sometimes When Long I Drowsily Dream
Track length2:24
No. 5, I Heard You
Track length2:27
No. 6, The Pilgrim
Track length2:04
Szymanowski: Three Songs to Poems by Jan Kasprowicz, Op. 5
Work length17:04
No. 1, Holy God!
Track length6:27
No. 2, I Am and I Weep
Track length5:25
No. 3, My Evening Song
Track length5:12
Szymanowski: The Swan, Op. 7
Work length3:34
Szymanowski: Songs (4) with words by Tadeusz Micinski, Op. 11
Work length9:45
No. 1, Joyless I Am
Track length3:18
No. 2, In the Enchanted Forest
Track length2:20
No. 3, Flying Over Me Into the Sapphire of the Sea
Track length1:40
No. 4, Roar, Storm!
Track length2:27
Szymanowski: Soldier's Songs (3)
Work length5:52
No. 1, To a Girl
Track length1:58
No. 2, The Outsmarted Soldier
Track length2:34
No. 3, Hanka was Embroidering
Track length1:20
Szymanowski: Idom se siuhaje dolu, spiewajecy (Young highlanders descend, singing)
Work length1:14
Szymanowski: Lieder (5), Op. 13
Work length12:07
No. 1, Voice in the Dark
Track length2:17
No. 2, The Christchild's Lullaby
Track length3:12
No. 3, At Sea
Track length1:50
No. 4, Suleika
Track length2:21
No. 5, The Black Lute
Track length2:27
Szymanowski: Songs (3) to words by Dymitr Dawydow, Op. 32
Work length6:27
No. 1, Sunrise
Track length1:55
No. 2, Starless Sky
Track length2:13
No. 3, Autumnal Sun
Track length2:19
Szymanowski: Bunte Lieder, Op. 22
Work length10:59
No. 1, The Hermit
Track length2:02
No. 2, Song of the Girl at the Window
Track length2:45
No. 3, For Little Girls
Track length2:25
No. 4, That is What the Summer Night Did
Track length1:58
No. 5, Destiny
Track length1:49
Szymanowski: Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin, Op. 42
Work length16:08
No. 1, Allah, Allah, Akbar...
Track length2:40
No. 2, O My Beloved!
Track length1:55
No. 3, The Barely Golden Sun
Track length2:56
No. 4, At Noon
Track length2:17
No. 5, At This Hour
Track length2:55
No. 6, You Departed
Track length3:25
Szymanowski: 7 Joyce Songs, Op. 54
Work length10:16
No. 1, Gentle Lady
Track length1:48
No. 2, Sleep Now
Track length1:31
No. 3, Lean Out of the Window
Track length1:06
No. 4, My Dove, My Beautiful One
Track length1:43
No. 5, Strings in the Earth
Track length1:18
No. 6, Winds of May
Track length1:09
No. 7, Rain Has Fallen
Track length1:41
Szymanowski: 12 Kurpian Songs, Op. 58 Book I
Work length8:18
No. 1, The Cranes Were Flying
Track length1:49
No. 2, The Storm Has Come
Track length1:55
No. 3, Beware, Mother
Track length2:09
No. 4, By the Lake
Track length2:25
Szymanowski: 12 Kurpian Songs, Op. 58 Book II
Work length8:39
No. 5, Grey Horses by the Fire
Track length2:36
No. 6, Hurry the Horse
Track length2:26
No. 7, Felled Oak
Track length1:52
No. 8, Fly, My Voice, Over the Dew
Track length1:45
Szymanowski: 12 Kurpian Songs, Op. 58 Book III
Work length9:33
No. 9, Neigh, Horse
Track length3:08
No. 10, Dark Is the Night, Dark
Track length1:58
No. 11, The Fish Are Gone, Gone
Track length1:56
No. 12, All the Folks Have Arrived
Track length2:31
Szymanowski: In the Flowering Meadows
Work length2:36
Szymanowski: Six Songs, Op. 20
Work length13:15
No. 1, On the Black Moon
Track length1:52
No. 2, Sain Francis Says
Track length1:53
No. 3, I Can Sense the Exquisite Fragrance of Your Golden Hair
Track length3:10
No. 4, In My Heart
Track length2:07
No. 5, From Moorish Singing Halls
Track length1:37
No. 6, On a Hollow Reed
Track length2:36
Szymanowski: Love Songs of Hafiz, Op. 24
Work length12:01
No. 1, Wishes
Track length1:25
No. 2, The Only Medicine
Track length1:44
No. 3, The Burning Tulips
Track length2:32
No. 4, Dance
Track length2:06
No. 5, The Lovesick East Wind
Track length2:02
No. 6, Sad Spring
Track length2:12
Szymanowski: The Grave of Hafiz, Op. posth.
Work length5:23
Szymanowski: 4 Songs from Tagore's 'The Garden', Op. 41
Work length10:57
No. 1, My Heart
Track length2:33
No. 2, The Young Prince, Pt. 1
Track length3:05
No. 3, The Young Prince, Pt. 2
Track length3:00
No. 4, The Last Song
Track length2:19
Szymanowski: Twelve Songs, Op. 17
Work length25:40
No. 1, Up High at an Early Hour
Track length2:03
No. 2, A Secret
Track length1:45
No. 3, Courtship
Track length1:41
No. 4, Some Night
Track length2:42
No. 5, Revelation
Track length3:34
No. 6, The Annunciation
Track length1:57
No. 7, After the Rain
Track length1:27
No. 8, Abduction
Track length2:06
No. 9, Slumber Song
Track length1:48
No. 10, Soul
Track length1:47
No. 11, Fragment from Der Glühende
Track length1:39
No. 12, Night of Love
Track length3:11
Szymanowski: 6 Songs of the Fairy Tale Princess, Op. 31
Work length17:12
No. 1, Lonely Moon
Track length4:00
No. 2, The Nightingale
Track length2:43
No. 3, Golden Slippers
Track length2:28
No. 4, A Dance
Track length2:06
No. 5, The Song of the Wave
Track length3:19
No. 6, A Feast
Track length2:36
Szymanowski: Słopiewnie, Op. 46
Work length8:58
No. 1, Cherrywords
Track length1:51
No. 2, Green Words
Track length1:43
No. 3, St. Francis
Track length1:55
No. 4, Red Song
Track length1:03
No. 5, Wanda
Track length2:26
Szymanowski: Three Lullabies, Op. 48
Work length4:39
No. 1, Bend Silently Over the Cradle
Track length1:35
No. 2, I Sing to the Sea
Track length1:23
No. 3, White Giant Cirle of the Moon
Track length1:41
Szymanowski: Children's Rhymes
Work length23:22
No. 1, Before Falling Asleep
Track length1:07
No. 2, How to Best Get Away from a Hornet
Track length0:54
No. 3, Home
Track length0:51
No. 4, Piglet
Track length0:51
No. 5, Christmas
Track length1:05
No. 6, The Princess' Wedding
Track length1:42
No. 7, The Bumblebee and the Beetle
Track length0:45
No. 8, Saint Krystyna
Track length1:15
No. 9, Spring
Track length0:50
No. 10, The Doll's Lullaby
Track length0:49
No. 11, The Bullfinch and the Magpie
Track length0:44
No. 12, The Sad One
Track length1:17
No. 13, A Visit at the Cow's
Track length1:01
No. 14, Krzysia's Lullaby
Track length1:26
No. 15, The Cat
Track length1:24
No. 16, Lalka's Lullaby
Track length0:49
No. 17, Mice
Track length0:48
No. 18, The Cheating Shopkeeper
Track length2:15
No. 19, The Bay-Horse's Lullaby
Track length1:33
No. 20, The Ill-Tempered Starling
Track length1:56
Szymanowski: Vocalise-Study
Work length3:18
Szymanowski: Lonely Moon, Op. 31, No. 1 (A)
Work length2:23

Awards and reviews

2010

This set proposes a kind of luxury musical package- tour for the jet-set age – today expressionist Austria, tomorrow Slavic fantasy, the day after high-romanticism in Germany, and then away for a weekend in the exotic realms of the Near East. The different locales materialise out of thin air, colourful, fully formed, without a moment for the traveller to get bored on the way. Szymanowski's song output is doubly intriguing – first, for those far-flung contrasts of style; second, because it's so little known. Though the Polish language is an issue, this admirable set reminds us that there are also songs in German and even a James Joyce cycle in English.
Four singers take part, one to each disc. Piotr Beczala is a light, poetic young tenor with some passion up his sleeve. He's dreamily captivating in the early Six Songs of Op 2, where Fauré and Rachmaninov seem to be whispering ideas alternately over Szymanowski's shoulders; catches well the change of tone to religious concentration in the Three Fragments by Jan Kasprowicz; and brings lyric beauty to the Schoenberginspired Op 13 settings.
The voice of soprano Juliana Gondek is a touch brittle for the sultry mood Szymanowski must have had in mind for the Songs of the InfatuatedMuezzin, and a bit more could be made of the words in the Joyce cycle; yet there's still much to enjoy. The sensitive singing of mezzo Urszula Kryger plunges straight into the swirling Tristanesque ecstasy of the Wagnerian Op-20 set. The glinting lights of the Orient return in Des HafisLiebeslieder, another set of paraphrases by Hans Bethge to place beside Das Lied von der Erde, and the four songs of Op 41 take us forward into more ambiguous and experimental terrain.
The familiar Songs of the Fairy Princess promise a magical opening to the fourth disc in a winning performance by young Iwona Sobotka. Here's a pure, steady, light soprano who can flit up into the ledger lines without a hint of shrillness.
She's also interesting in the antique Polish songs of the Spopiewnie, Op 46, and makes a lively job of the miniature Children's Rhymes of Op 49, even if a few go rather a long way.
The pianist, Reinild Mees, exhibits a faultless sense of atmosphere throughout, whether delicately conjuring Oriental mystery or thundering up and down Lisztian octaves. The adventurous traveller need look no further.
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