SZYMANOWSKI: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 (Wit) (Antoni Wit/ Ryszard Minkiewicz/ Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir/ Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra) (Naxos: 8.570721)

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Composed in 1910, at a time when Szymanowski was influenced by Richard Strauss, Reger and Scriabin, the unusually structured Symphony No. 2 is a work of great power and invention, with many passionate and varied contrasts in its use of solo instruments, in particular the violin. Szymanowski's Symphony No. 3 'Song of the Night', in which orchestra, tenor and choir are subtly blended in a continuous web of intoxicating sound, is a ravishing setting of a Polish translation of a poem by the great medieval Persian mystic known as Mevl?ón?ó, our Master, Jal?úl ad-D+
n, which evokes the mysteries and beauty of a starlit Persian night.