《齐马诺夫斯基:第三号交响曲》NEW PRESTIGE EDITION: Watch out for this collector's item! - Pierre Boulez' first ever Szymanowski recording comes in a lavish hard booklet with an in-depth essay on the Polish composer as well as background on Pierre Boulez's approach to his music, original illustrations and photo material. The new prestige edition also contains an additional CD with excerpts from the rehearsal of Symphony No. 3 as well as audio interviews with Boulez in French, English and German.
Pierre Boulez honors singular Polish composer Karol Szymanowski by recording - live - the Violin Concerto no. 1 and the Symphony no. 3 "Song of the Night". Violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff and the Vienna Philharmonic are peerless participants. The two orchestral works are the high-water mark of Szymanowski's impressionism, an idiom mingling the refined sonorities of Debussy, Ravel, and late Scriabin with the impassioned Romanticism of the New German School.

Inspired by Persian poet Rumi, Szymanowski subtitled his Symphony no. 3 "Song of the Night" after a poem by the 13th-century mystic. Emotional, even ecstatic music conveys the poem's supernatural vision of night's unraveling of the mystery of God.

Disc: 1
01 Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35, M37: Vivace assai
02 Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35, M37: Cadenza - Allegro assai
03 Symphony No. 3 ('The Song of the Night'), Op. 27, M36: Moderato assai
04 Symphony No. 3 ('The Song of the Night'), Op. 27, M36: Allegretto tranquillo
05 Symphony No. 3 ('The Song of the Night'), Op. 27, M36: Largo

Disc: 2
01 Pierre Boulez in Conversation with Andrew Clements (English)
02 Pierre Boulez im Gespräch mit Albert Hosp (Deutsch)
03 Pierre Boulez s'entretient avec Omer Corlaix (Français)

This recording completes Pierre Boulez's highly acclaimed survey of Bartók's major orchestral works on Deutsche Grammophon. Boulez has once again gathered an extraordinary team of musicians: Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Pierre-Laurent Aimard--with his long-term recital partner Tamara Stefanovich--and two of the world's most esteemed ensembles: the Berliner Philharmoniker and London Symphony Orchestra. These all-new recordings present less well-known works by the Hungarian composer in riveting performances that will surely become benchmarks. DG exclusive artist Aimard teams up with Boulez in an intensely powerful and thoughtful performance.

This recording was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Awards for "Best Classical Album" and "Best Instrumental Solosist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)."
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, and Béla Bartók have become a winning combination. Three of the Chicago/Boulez Bartók recordings which preceded this one received Grammy Awards. Boulez has developed his relationship with the Chicago over Bartók's music, through countless rehearsals and performances. The results are stunning, time and time again. Here, young violinist Gil Shaham is added to the mix for performances which strike directly to the works' cores.
The Second Concerto comes from the early days of World War II and is a delicious blend of modal touches, Hungarian flavors, and crunchy not-quite-diatonic harmonies. The two Rhapsodies were written almost ten years earlier--originally for violin and piano, but orchestrated soon after--and evoke Hungarian and Romanian dances and tunes. Shaham tears into the solo parts with tremendous energy, and their virtuosic passages fairly fly off the page. Boulez and Chicago back him with power and sensitivity, their command of the music (or, perhaps, the music's command of them) complete. The recordings were made following a series of highly acclaimed concerts in late 1998, and DG would seem to have produced another winner.