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Composer of the Week: Szymanowski

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4: OldPoland. Donald Macleod explores Szymanowski's music of the 1920s, inspired by the "unheard-of suggestive force - primeval, eternal and primitive" of Polish traditional music.
Mazurka, Op 50 No 1
Joanna Domanska (piano) Ballet: Harnasie (excerpts)
Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Witold Rowicki , Warsaw State Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bohdan Wodiczko Stabat Mater
Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano), Florence Quivar (mezzo), John Connell (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Witold Rowicki
Conductor:
Bohdan Wodiczko
Conductor:
Stabat Mater
Soprano:
Elzbieta Szmytka
Bass:
John Connell
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Source: Radio Times

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