Karol Szymanowski - Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin

Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin, songs for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 42, M44 (1918) Ryszard Minkiewicz, tenor Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra Karol Stryja Szymanowski wrote this dreamy, hedonistic song cycle for voice and piano in 1918, during a time he was particularly interested in fantasy and exoticism. He returned to the set in 1934, just before he stopped composing, and orchestrated four of the six songs, changing their order. He took his texts from Polish poet Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz. Th