Szymanowski

American  

[shee-mah-nawf-skee] / ˌʃi mɑˈnɔf ski /

noun

1. Karol 1882?–1937, Polish composer.

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Szymanowski British  

/ ʃimaˈnɔfski /

noun

1. Karol (ˈkarɔl). 1882–1937, Polish composer, whose works include the opera King Roger (1926), two violin concertos, symphonies, piano music, and songs

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Example Sentences

But ensemble moments were nevertheless distinct; the introduction alone seemed to inhale and exhale its phrases, and the cellos’ freely beating fifths in the finale set the tone for the rubato and joyously dancing liveliness that Batiashvili has previously brought to folk-inflected music by the likes of Szymanowski.

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She premiered James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto No. 2 last fall, and is touring Szymanowski’s second concerto with orchestras in Berlin, Manchester and Boston this month.

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She delivered an assured performance of the Szymanowski concerto with the conductor Karina Canellakis in Berlin, finding a meaty yet tender sustained sound.

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That journey for Szymanowski, as this recording shows, wasn’t quick.

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So reflective was it of Szymanowski, however, that an orchestrated version accompanied his funeral.

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