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Pontinen plays Szymanowski | BIS BISCD1137

Pontinen plays Szymanowski

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1137

Barcode: 7318590011379

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd February 2009

Contents

Works

Szymanowski, Karol

Masques (3), op.34
Mazurkas (2), op.62
Mazurkas (20), op.50
» no.9 Tempo moderato
» no.10 Allegramente - Vivace - Con brio
» no.11 Allegretto
» no.12 Allegro moderato
Metopes, op.29
Piano Sonata no.3, op.36

Artists

Roland Pontinen (piano)

Works

Szymanowski, Karol

Masques (3), op.34
Mazurkas (2), op.62
Mazurkas (20), op.50
» no.9 Tempo moderato
» no.10 Allegramente - Vivace - Con brio
» no.11 Allegretto
» no.12 Allegro moderato
Metopes, op.29
Piano Sonata no.3, op.36

Artists

Roland Pontinen (piano)

About

The impressionistic Métopes was composed in 1915, following a visit to Sicily. The title refers to the spaces on a classical frieze in which a sculptor would add decorative scenes, and each section depicts a character and location from Homer‘s Odyssey.

One year later came the trilogy Masques, which portrays the story-telling Shéhérazade, an episode from the legend of Tristan and Isolde and a Sérénade de Don Juan.

Soon after these examples of programme music, the composer returned to pure sonata form in the Third Sonata, his last major work for solo piano. This remains based in Impressionism, but also achieves a synthesis between that and the style of earlier works.

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