Sonic Asymmetry

Karol Szymanowski – “Violin Concerto no.1”

カロル  シマノウスキ – 「ヴァイオリン協奏曲第1番」

TIME COMMITMENT: 30 minutes

With pre-dawn intensity, the concerto radiates with a promise of therapeutic metamorphosis.  Inebriated with the lyricism of the composer’s native flatlands, the narrative is lightly disturbed, but never saturated with soloing ornamentation.  But this could be attributable to Penderecki, il direttore in the performance presented here, who blunts the piercing romantic formalism and brings to the fore the unity between the violin and the orchestra.

MUSIC

INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No._1_(Szymanowski)

A REFLECTION

A pity. We were such a good

And loving invention.

An aeroplane made from a man and wife.

Wings and everything.

We hovered a little above the earth.

We even flew a little.

Yehuda Amichai: “A Pity”