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Composer:
Karol Szymanowski

Artist(s):
Izabella Klosinska
Krystina Rorbach

Conductor:
Robert Satanowski

Background: Szymanowski's deeply penetrating approach to Arabic-Persian culture is particularly significant. The Hafiz Songs are his musical testimony. Unlike most European composers who have interested themselves in the orient Szymanowski did not attempt to give his music an eastern colour nor did he ever use Arab or Persian melodies or scales.

Rather his unerring intuition succeeded in extracting and generalizing the most basic qualities of oriental music. Sorabji - the eccentric English pianist and composer of Indian descent - wrote of the Hafiz settings as 'music of a radiant purity of spirit of an elevated ecstasy of expression' going on to describe the score as glowing 'with gorgeous color rich yet never garish nor crude like a Persian painting or silk rug'.

CATALOGUE NR: VMS133
RECORD LABEL: VMS
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.35 including VAT, or £ 10.51 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 17-May-2004

COMPOSER: Karol Szymanowski
TITLE: Love Songs for Soprano & Orchestra
TRACKS: Songs of a Fairytale Princess op.31. Hafiz' Love-Songs op.26. Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin op.42. Three Songs to Poems by Jan Kasprowicz op.5.
ORCHESTRA: Polish National Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Robert Satanowski
ARTISTS: Izabella Klosinska   Krystina Rorbach   Barbara Zagorzanka  

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