Szymanowski: Nocturne and Tarantella Op. 28 (Arthur Grimiaux, violin; Gerald Moore, piano)

Szymanowski: Nocturne and Tarantella Op. 28
(00:00) Nocturne
(04:42) Tarantella

Arthur Grimiaux, violin; Gerald Moore, piano
Recorded in 1945, EMI Studio No. 3, Abbey Road, London, UK

78RPM: Columbia DX1199

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Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28, is a composition for violin and piano, written in the spring and summer of 1915 by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.

It was first performed in Warsaw on 24 January 1920, by Paweł Kochański and Feliks Szymanowski (the composer's elder brother), and published in 1921. It is dedicated to the composer's friend August Iwański, at whose estate Ryżawka, and Józef Jaroszyński's manor in Zarudzie, the work was written.

It is in the key of E minor and lasts about 10 minutes.

The Nocturne has mainly long elegant lines soaring high above the piano accompaniment, but also sometimes diverts off the pathway into a Spanish idiom (Szymanowski had recently returned from a Mediterranean journey), and is alternately languid and febrile. The Tarantella is in a typically relentless Neapolitan 6/8 rhythm, with left-hand pizzicatos, double stopping and other effects. It was sketched during a single evening of drinking with Kochánski and Iwánski at Zarudzie. It has impressionistic overtones redolent of Debussy and early Stravinsky, but is also pervaded with the flavors of the Middle East, similarly to many of his works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturne_and_Tarantella_(Szymanowski)

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