Andrzej Chlopecki, the late critic and animator of the music scene, wrote extensively about Szymanski’s music as well as supporting the composer by means of his longtime role with the Warsaw Autumn festival. Chlopecki puts things thus: “the formal structure is beautiful while stylistic expression is calculated: for Szymanski’s music is a continual game.” He then offers precedents in Johannes Ockeghem and Anton Webern, deducing that Szymanski’s “guiding principles would be speculation and constructivism.” Rendering the loaded quality in the composer’s works, Chlopecki adds that “the aim of Szymanski’s music is the creation of symbolic entities within abstract art forms.” Dissociative Counterpoint Disorders was composed for Malgorzata Sarbak. Sarbak premiered the piece in Warsaw in the Palace of Culture and Science. Harpsichordist Malgorzata Sarbak currently serves as a keyboard teacher at F. Chopin College of Music in Warsaw. She has made archival recordings for the Polish Radio, and has won numerous competitions, most notably the International EBU Competition New Talent 2005.
