570723 bk Szymanowski EU:570723 bk Szymanowski EU 12/15/08 5:13 PM Page 16 Karol Also available: SZYMANOWSKI Harnasie (Ballet-Pantomime) Mandragora • Prince Potemkin, Incidental Music to Act V Ochman • Pinderak • Marciniec Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir • Antoni Wit 8.557981 8.570721 8.570723 16 570723 bk Szymanowski EU:570723 bk Szymanowski EU 12/15/08 5:13 PM Page 2 Karol SZYMANOWSKI Also available: (1882-1937) Harnasie, Op. 55 35:47 Text: Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) and Jerzy Mieczysław Rytard (1899-1970) Obraz I: Na hali (Tableau I: In the mountain pasture) 1 No. 1: Redyk (Driving the sheep) 5:09 2 No. 2: Scena mimiczna (zaloty) (Mimed Scene (Courtship)) 2:15 3 No. 3: Marsz zbójnicki (The Tatra Robbers’ March)* 1:43 4 No. 4: Scena mimiczna (Harna i Dziewczyna) (Mimed Scene (The Harna and the Girl))† 3:43 5 No. 5: Taniec zbójnicki – Finał (The Tatra Robbers’ Dance – Finale)† 4:42 Obraz II: W karczmie (Tableau II: In the inn) 6 No. 6a: Wesele (The Wedding) 2:36 7 No. 6b: Cepiny (Entry of the Bride) 1:56 8 No. 6c: Pie siuhajów (Drinking Song) 1:19 9 No. 7: Taniec góralski (The Tatra Highlanders’ Dance)* 4:20 0 No. 8: Napad harnasiów – Taniec (Raid of the Harnasie – Dance) 5:25 ! No. 9: Epilog (Epilogue)*† 2:39 Mandragora, Op. 43 27:04 8.557748 Text: Ryszard Bolesławski (1889-1937) and Leon Schiller (1887-1954) @ Scene 1**†† 10:38 # Scene 2†† 6:16 $ Scene 3** 10:10 % Knia Patiomkin (Prince Potemkin), Incidental Music to Act V, Op. 51*** 10:26 Text: Tadeusz Miciski (1873-1918) Wiesław Ochman, Tenor* • Alexander Pinderak, Tenor** Ewa Marciniec, Mezzo-soprano*** 8.554315 Ewa Marczyk, Violin Solo† • Kazimierz Kolacz, Cello solo†† 8.570723 2 15 8.570723 570723 bk Szymanowski EU:570723 bk Szymanowski EU 12/15/08 5:13 PM Page 14 commande d’Emil Mlynarski, de l’Opéra de Varsovie. Le pantomime ne lui était cependant pas un genre Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937): Harnasie (Ballet-Pantomime) Op. 55 La version définitive de l’ouvrage présente bien des inconnu quand, en 1923, il entreprit ce chef d’œuvre. Mandragora (Pantomime) Op. 43 • Prince Potemkin, Incidental Music to Act V, Op. 51 différences avec le projet initial du musicien. En 1923, Trois ans auparavant en effet, il avait signé Szymanowski s’était en effet lancé dans la composition Mandragora, une partition représentée à Varsovie le 15 Karol Szymanowski was born at Tymoszówka in the Władysław Lubomirski the Young Poland in Music d’un mariage goral (le folklore goral est celui de la juin 1920. Sur un livret de Ryszard Bolesławski et Leon Kiev District of the Ukraine in 1882, the son of a Polish group, for the publication and promotion of new Polish région des Tatras) qu’il envisageait en une seule partie. Schiller, d’après Molière, l’ouvrage était initialement land-owner and of a mother of Swedish extraction, born music. Fitelberg, by training a violinist and composer, Finalement la nécessité lui apparut d’adopter une destiné à être inséré dans le troisième acte du Bourgeois Baroness Anna Taube. The family and their immediate made his later career as a conductor, and directed the structure plus complexe : Prélude (Scène rurale) - gentilhomme. Il se présente sous la forme d’un circle had a deep interest in the arts, a fact reflected in the first concert of the group in Warsaw in 1906, when Tableau n° 1 (deux scènes mimées) - Tableau n° 2 (Le intermezzo en trois scènes, pétri de l’esprit de la subsequent careers of the five children of the marriage as Szymanowski’s Concert Overture was performed. He mariage, Chanson à boire, Entrée des Harnasie; commedia dell’arte, où l’on ne manquera pas de relever musicians, poets or painters. Karol’s sister Stanisława won later distinction as conductor at the Vienna Danse) - Epilogue (Dans les montagnes), que les l’influence de Stravinski dont le ballet Petrouchka avait, later became a singer and his brother Feliks a pianist. Staatsoper and in work for the Russian impresario spectateurs découvrirent pour la première fois à Prague on s’en souvient, conquis Szymanowski sept ans plus Szymanowski’s early education was at home, since a leg Dyagilev, before returning to direct the Warsaw le 11 mai 1935. tôt. injury at the age of four prevented him from attending Philharmonic Orchestra and, from 1947, the Polish Situé dans la région montagneuse des Tatras, school in the neighbouring town of Elisavetgrad (the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. Kochaski’s Harnasie conte les mésaventures d’une jeune fille Alain Cochard modern Kirowograd), where, nevertheless, he had music support was to prove invaluable, particularly in the contrainte d’épouser un fermier aussi riche et laid qui ne lessons from a relative, Gustav Neuhaus, who had a composition of the first of Szymanowski’s two violin lui plaît aucunement. Par chance, Harnás, chef des En 1925, après avoir achevé Le Roi Roger, school there. In 1901 he went to Warsaw to continue his concertos and in a number of works written for violin brigands, intervient avec ses compères, les Harnasie, et Szymanowski écrivit la musique de scène pour le musical studies, taking lessons from the composer and piano. Rubinstein, who, like Kochaski, made his enlève la jeune fille qui s’éprend de lui et décide de cinquième acte du Prince Potemkin, une pièce de Zygmunt Noskowski in counterpoint and composition later career in the United States of America, proved an devenir sa compagne. Tadeusz Miciski. Le poète polonais, engagé dans le and from M. Zawirski in harmony. additional champion of Szymanowski, while Si les thèmes d’origine folklorique sont mouvement “Jeune Pologne”, partageait avec The feelings of Polish nationalism that had inspired Paderewski, a musician of more conservative tendency, omniprésents dans l’Opus 35, ce dernier, parce que sa Szymanowski un goût pour l’ésotérisme et Chopin and his contemporaries continued through the assisted in the wider dissemination of Szymanowski’s composition démarra au tout début de la dernière l’orientalisme. En 1904-05 le compositeur avait mis en nineteenth century, exacerbated by the repressive piano music, favouring especially the famous B flat période du musicien, conserve certaines attaches avec le musique quatre poèmes de Miciski, et s’inspira d’un measures taken by Russia, in particular, in the face of minor Study, a work that owes much of its popularity to style impressionniste des années précédentes. autre de ses poèmes pour l’Ouverture de Concert, open revolt. Warsaw in 1901, however, remained as his advocacy. Extrêmement fouillée et colorée, l’orchestration op. 12. La musique de Prince Potemkin, dont le provincial as it had been in the time of Chopin, who had The first Young Poland concert in Warsaw had témoigne d’une richesse qui, alliée à la rusticité des manuscrit fut trouvé à la mort de Szymanowski, éploie sought his musical fortune abroad in Paris in 1830. The included performances of Szymanowski’s Variations on motifs, parvient à un résultat éblouissant de relief et très une version dramatisée d’une mélodie populaire des century had seen Polish performers of the greatest a Polish Folk Theme and his Study in B flat minor, suggestif. Szymanowski se refusait à une “transposition Tatras. distinction, particularly the violinists Lipiski and played by the pianist Harry Neuhaus, and had been well mécanique” des mélodies populaires. Dans Harnasie, il Wieniawski. The opera composer Stanisław Moniuszko, enough received. Berlin, however, proved much less parvient à les transcender avec une science poétique Isabelle Battioni however, a rival to Chopin in his own country, enjoyed interested, when Fitelberg conducted the Berlin rare. only a local reputation, while his successors, in Philharmonic Orchestra in a similar programme in the Szymanowski’s esteem, occupied a still lower place. same year. Szymanowski spent the following two years Polish music was to a great extent isolated and principally in Berlin and Leipzig, absorbing still further provincial, a reflection of the society in which it existed. the influence of Wagner, of Reger and of Richard The new century, however, brought together a group of Strauss, composers of whom he later took a cooler view. young musicians of much wider outlook, a circle that This period saw the composition of his Symphony No. 1 included the pianist Artur Rubinstein, the violinist in F minor, completed in 1907 and given its first Pawel Kochaski and the conductor Grzegorz Fitelberg. performance in Warsaw two years later. The composer The last named, the composer Ludomir Róycki and the subsequently withdrew the symphony and went so far as pianist and composer Apolinary Szeluto, together with to destroy the 1907 piano trio, sensing what seemed to Szymanowski, established under the patronage of Prince him the excessive influence of the post-Wagnerian, a 8.570723 14 3 8.570723 570723 bk Szymanowski EU:570723 bk Szymanowski EU 12/15/08 5:13 PM Page 4 reflection of a predominant aspect of music of the time Kochaski and Rubinstein prudently chose to settle in Bientôt la guerre éclata, laissant Szymanowski loin de que de chagrin, de malheur, de maladie et de travail’, in Germany. The following years brought periods at the United States, but Szymanowski determined to stay ses atrocités. Les séquelles d’une blessure au genou, confiait-il d’ailleurs en 1933 à Iwaszkiewicz. Aux home in the Ukraine and abroad. He wrote his in his own country and to seek there a further source of survenue en 1886, lui évitèrent en effet d’endosser ennuis d’argent s’ajoutait en effet une tuberculose qui Penthesilea, Opus 18, an orchestral work with soprano inspiration, particularly in the more primitive aspects of l’uniforme et il vécut calmement à Tymoszówka chaque jour l’affaiblissait un peu plus.