The socio-political situation in Europe in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries facilitated the development of national identities and distinctiveness of individual nations. (…) A significant role in this field fell to music. Historians of music differentiate between two distinct trends; the mainstream current and the peripheral trend (the latter being also labelled ‘national‘), in which the social role of music was fundamental. References to a nation’s past, its heroes, literature, customs, language and folklore resulted in development of national schools (styles) of composition such as: Spanish (Sarasate, Albéniz, Granados), Scandinavian (Gade, Grieg, Sinding, Sibelius), English (Parry, Stanford, Mackenzie), Czech (Smetana, Dvořák), Hungarian (Erkel, Mosonyi), Russian (Glinka, ‘The Mighty Handful’), Polish (Chopin, Moniuszko).

Jerzy Zajączkowski

SIERGIEJ PROKOFIEW [1891–1953]
Sonata No. 2 in D major Op. 94 bis for violin and piano
1. Moderato 7:45
2. Scherzo: Presto 5:16
3. Andante 3:33
4. Allegro con brio 7:12

BÉLA BARTÓK [1881–1945]
Rhapsody No. 1 for violin and piano
5. Lassú: Moderato 4:13
6. Friss: Allegro moderato 5:08

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI [1882–1937]
Nocturne and Tarantela Op. 28 for violin and piano
7. Nocturne 4:59
8. Tarantella 5:28

KAZIMIERZ LEPIANKA [1869–1948]
9. A Dream for violin and piano 3:14

Total time: 47:20