Karol Szymanowski "The Complete Mazurkas" MARC ANDRE HAMELIN Hyperion CDA673998

Description: Karol Szymanowski "The Complete Mazurkas" MARC ANDRE HAMELIN Hyperion CDA673998. Condition is LIKE NEW or BRAND NEW but without shrink-wrap. Flawless, with zero signs of use and 1 pristine disc. This will be packed very carefully and shipped US Media Mail with Tracking. We are happy to combine items to save you money on shipping. We can send you three typical DVDs for the price of 1. Just put your selection in your shopping cart and press the Request Total button (top right) and we will get back to you with the lowest combined shipping price. Remember Media Mail starts at $3.65 for the first pound weight (or fraction), but then only 70 cents for each additional pound (or fraction). And visit our store on eBay (GutenburgReads) to see the more than 900 interesting items we are selling. Artist Marc-Andre Hamelin TitleSzymanowski: the Complete Mazurkas Format CD Country UK LabelHyperion Records Ltd Catalogue Number CDA67399 Year 2003 From the insert: THE PIANO WAS AN INTEGRAL PART of Karol Szymanowski's musical life. He was seven when he began his first lessons on the instrument, studying initially with his father and then with his uncle, Gustav Neuhaus-whose son, Genryk (Heinrich or Harry), Szymanowski's cousin, was later to be the teacher of Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels and Radu Lupu. The Nine Preludes, Op 1, some of which may have been written when he was only fourteen, attracted the support of Artur Rubinstein, a valuable early champion. It was the third of his Four Études, Op 4, that brought Szymanowski his first taste of popular success. Throughout his life, his music was written at the piano, and it was playing the piano that fed him in a particularly difficult period of his career, in 1932-35; indeed, the Sinfonia Concertante, his Fourth Symphony, written in 1932, became a vehicle for his own performance he was a highly capable pianist, though no virtuoso. Szymanowski's piano works follow the general division of his music into three broad periods. The early ones— from the Nine Preludes, mostly written c1899-1900, to the Sonata No 2, Op 21, written in 1910-11-were composed under the shadow of Romanticism, and especially of Chopin. (Szymanowski's respect for Chopin never weakened, though his obligation to him did.) A middle period (1914-18), Impressionist in orientation, comprises Métopes, Op 29 (1915), Masques, Op 34 (1915-16), the Twelve Études, Op 33 (1916), and the Third Sonata, Op 36, written in 1917. The final stylistic phase of Szymanowski's output his engagement with Polish nationalism- begins in 1920 and covers the Twenty Mazurkas, Op 50, of 1924-25, an isolated Valse Romantique from 1925, Four Polish Dances (1926) and the Two Mazurkas, Op 62, his final keyboard offering, composed in 1933-34. Any manifestation of 'Polishness' in Szymanowski's earlier music was slight. The third of his Variations on an . . . By the way: For the philanthropists out there, the vast majority of the items sold by us (GutenburgReads), are for the benefit of The Shepherd's Center of Greater Winston-Salem, whose mission is to help house-bound seniors live full and independent lives in their own homes. The center provides transportation to medical appointments and grocery shopping, assistance with minor repairs around the house, and companionship through visits. The citizens of Winston-Salem generously donate books, music, movies, and more to us to help us achieve our mission. By buying useful items from us, you will be helping the less fortunate in our city. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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