{"id":39611,"date":"2024-02-29T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4219a9d5-6ee5-40f4-ad6e-265e60b35355"},"modified":"2024-03-01T04:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T03:39:56","slug":"bartok-janacek-szymanowski","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/bartok-janacek-szymanowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Bart\u00f3k\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Szymanowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By John Allison\n      <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 17:13 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Piano Works<\/p><p>Piotr Anderszewski (piano)<\/p><p><em>Warner Classics 5419789127\u00a0\u00a0 58:21 mins<\/em><\/p><p>It takes a pianist of Piotr Anderszewski\u2019s rare musical intelligence to come up with a programme as simple and direct as this, one featuring a trio of Central European composers who shaped the musical identity of their countries in the early 20th century. As Anderszewski puts it, there is \u2018no room here for stylisation or decorum; these works draw upon the very roots of music.\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/polish-composers\">Greatest Polish composers<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/the-ten-best-czech-composers\">Ten best Czech composers<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>The Polish pianist is most successful in conveying that in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/bela-bartok\">Bart\u00f3k<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s 14 Bagatelles (1908), an outstanding account of the Hungarian composer\u2019s early collection in which folk song mixes so seamlessly alongside original ideas that it can be hard to tell one from the other. From the very spare opening piece onwards, Anderszewski adopts quite deliberate tempos, but still finds the nervous, spiky energy required for example in No. 2 (one of Bart\u00f3k\u2019s own recital favourites) and No. 14. The mysterious textures in No. 3 are blurred to hypnotic effect.<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/five-essential-works-bartok\">Bart\u00f3k: five essential works<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>Somehow, that deliberate approach works less well in the second book of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/leos-janacek\">Jan\u00e1\u010dek<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s <em>On an Overgrown Path<\/em> (1900-11) \u2013 recorded, oddly, seven years before the rest of the programme. Anderszewski is emphatic, where the Czech composer calls for a more lyrical sense of fantasy. He switches the order of the third and fourth pieces, putting the vigorous <em>Vivo<\/em> at the centre of things. With Szymanowski\u2019s Mazurkas, more rarefied and later works (1926-31) from the period of the Polish composer\u2019s retreat into the mountains, the only disappointment is that Anderszewski plays only a small selection from the original cycle of 20 pieces. 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