Nae Dwie Teriuseu

Baritone Gerald Finley's generous selection of Barber's songs includes two of his most familiar cycles, 11 individual songs, and Dover Beach, for baritone and string quartet. The songs all come from Barber's early period and range from "There is nae Lark," written when he was 17, to the Hermit Songs of 1953. Finley doesn't have a huge voice, but he can deliver plenty of power when required, and he has an appealing warmth and ease. His delivery is refreshingly free and unmannered, and it is ideally suited to the directness of Barber's songs. He shows wonderful sensitivity to the texts and makes even the most overdone songs, such as "The Daisies," sound convincing and newly imagined. The Hermit Songs are sung almost exclusively by women, perhaps because of the tradition that Barber established when he gave the premiere performance accompanying Leontyne Price, whose recording remains a gold standard. The texts, mostly written by Medieval Irish monks, largely reflect a male perspective, and Finley's fine performance ought to give courage to more men to take up the cycle.

Pawel Szymanski - Works for Piano - Maciej Grzybowski (2006) {EMI Classics}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical

The record with Paweł Szymański's music performed by the well-known pianist Maciej Grzybowski is one of the first publications of the Polish Audiovisual Publishers released together with the EMI label. It opens the entire series of recordings of this outstanding composer and leading Polish postmodernist signed by PWA. The album is opened by the now famous Two Studies, one of the most recognizable pieces by Szymański, characteristic of his style, which defines a specific technique of surconventionalism (composer's definition), consisting in revealing only parts of the musical narrative, so that the listener must reconstruct the whole by imagination "ragged" rhythmic course.