Rosanne Philippens - Myth: Rosanne Philippens plays Szymanowski (2015) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
02. Chant de Roxane (Transcription for violin and piano from Opera 'King Roger', Op 46)
03. Myths, Op. 30: I. La Fontaine d'Arethuse
04. Myths, Op. 30: II. Narcisse
05. Myths, Op. 30: III. Dryades et Pan
06. Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28
07. Chanson Russe
08. L'Oiseau de Feu: I. Berceuse (Transcription for violin and piano)
09. L'Oiseau de Feu: II. Scherzo (Transcription for violin and piano)


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)

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