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After more than three decades, this remains the Lied of choice if you prefer Mahler's sanctioned bariton e alternative in the alto songs. Bernstein's the hero of this intense, powerful reading. The Vienna orchestra, once led by Mahler himself, plays it to the hilt with expressive wind solos, deep, warm strings, and a searing response to Bernstein's (and Mahler's) emotional demands. King copes manfully with the cruelly difficult tenor songs, but Fischer-Dieskau is wonderful in the alto-baritone songs, singing with a great lieder specialist's textual nuance and vocal splendor. I've been imprinted with the versions featuring Ferrier with Walter and Ludwig with Klemperer but would not want to be without this great recording. --Dan Davis

《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)