What are you listening to right now?

[dizzyfingers]

Combining the two posts above I've been listening to Szymanowski's Mythes with Zimerman on piano!

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And as for his sonatas, the 3rd is the best- Richter's live recording is on youtube.

That's quite a photograph!  For one thing, Zimerman, whose photos are around today (showing a much  older gentleman), is so young!  And I do believe I detect some intriguing chemistry between the two young musicians.

What do you think of Szymanowski's Mythes?

I listened to some of the 3rd sonata, again I sense a lack of inner inspiration, which creates a laboriousness.

[thorn]

That's quite a photograph!  For one thing, Zimerman, whose photos are around today (showing a much  older gentleman), is so young!  And I do believe I detect some intriguing chemistry between the two young musicians.

What do you think of Szymanowski's Mythes?

I listened to some of the 3rd sonata, again I sense a lack of inner inspiration, which creates a laboriousness.

Yes, he's very young there! And who knows.

And it took me a while to understand the 3rd movement but I liked the other two right away. I read in several program notes that it's an important work in the context of violin repertoire, but as I'm not a string player I can't comment on that. As far as piano writing goes the mid-period work that Szymanowski himself was most proud of was Masques, which Zimerman recently recorded.

What do you mean by 'a lack of inner inspiration'? I'm curious because I think I get what you mean in terms of early Szymanowski (and early/mid Scriabin for that matter), but to me he then grew out of that.