Szymanowski

A reissue of a unique and valuable recording undermined by catastrophic failures of presentation [PCG]

Wonderful playing and the disc is worth buying for the Masques alone [SB]

Penderecki’s Dies Irae is frighteningly powerful, but Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater is given an underwhelming performance [SW]

One of the twentieth century’s greatest violinists, a musical aristocrat with superb polished technique and a phenomenal intellect [SG]