Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)
Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)
Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)
Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)
Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)
Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle

Karol Szymanowski, Sir Simon Rattle – King Roger / Symphony No.4 (Sinfonia Concertante)

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Szymanowski's *King Roger* stands as one of the twentieth century's most luminous operatic visions—a shimmering, sensual work that moves between Byzantine mysticism and modernist dissolution, following a 12th-century Sicilian king's encounter with a mysterious shepherd who unsettles his faith. Sir Simon Rattle's 1999 recording captures the opera's kaleidoscopic orchestration with remarkable clarity, letting the shimmering string writing and exotic harmonies breathe naturally across all three acts. The coupling with the *Sinfonia Concertante*, Szymanowski's late symphonic work, deepens the portrait: where *King Roger* luxuriates in sensual color, the Fourth Symphony distills that richness into something more abstract and introspective, its solo piano weaving through dense, contemplative textures. Together they reveal an artist oscillating between narrative grandeur and pure instrumental meditation, both performances marked by Rattle's sensitivity to Szymanowski's distinctive harmonic world—neither overstating the modernism nor softening its edges.

Item Details+
Genre Classical
Style Modern, Opera
Media Mint (M)
Sleeve Mint (M)
Description Sealed. Carefully packed and shipped with love from Vienna. Order more, save on shipping!
Label EMI Classics
Year 1999
Country US
Format CD
Tracklist+

King Roger, Op. 46

Act One 24:31

Act Two 39:32

Act Three 22:15

Symphony No. 4

Symphony No. 4 (Sinfonia Concertante), Op. 60 24:37

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