Karłowicz's final symphonic poem, Episode at a Masquerade,
has a complex and uncertain history.
The composer had worked on the piece from October 1908 until his death
the following February, leaving an autograph which apparently extended for 473 bars.
Fitelberg took this in hand in the summer of 1911,
working on a completion for over two years
that finally had its première in Warsaw on 11 February 1914.
Unfortunately the autograph disappeared during the Second World War,
making it impossible to deduce from the extant sketches
just how 'interventionist' his completion really is.
Performed :『
【Conductor】Antoni Wit / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra』
Even the title is not confirmed in Karłowicz's correspondence,
though his contemporaries agree that its subject-matter revolves
around the tense encounter between estranged lovers and their inability
to sustain a rapport in the surrounding activity.
Karłowicz treats this as an extended sonata form,
whose reprise and coda are realised by Fitelberg with great imagination
if not necessarily in accordance with the composer's actual intentions.
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 阿姆斯特丹音樂廳管弦樂團
