Szymanowski’s kaleidoscopic, richly communicative piano idiom shows an amazing variety of musical style and imaginative texture – elements of Debussy’s impressionism, the mystic qualities of Scriabin and the harmonic freedom of Stravinsky, all of whom Szymanowski admired. This recording embraces the entire span of his musical career, from the exquisitely crafted Nine Preludes, thought to be his earliest surviving work, to the dazzling and technically daunting Sonata No. 3. This is the fourth and final disc in the Naxos cycle of the complete piano works of Szymanowski. Earlier volumes are available on 8.553016, 8.553300 and 8.553867.