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Donald Macleod introduces works inspired by two important people in Szymanowski's life - the virtuoso violinist with whom he collaborated on his violin concerto, and his cousin, the writer Jarosaw Iwaszkiewicz, whose poems he set in a collection of songs concerning the love of an infatuated muezzin.

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Wed 11 Oct 2006 00:00

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  • Wed 25 Aug 2004 12:00
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