Karol Szymanowski has been played on NTS in shows including Extra Extra, featured first on 9 July 2021. Songs played include Twenty Mazurkas, Op. 50.

Karol Maciej Korwin-Szymanowski (1882-1937), was a Polish composer and pianist,

Born on the 3rd October 1882 in Tymoszowka, Poland, he lived between the death of Chopin and the rise of the post-World War II generation of Grażyna Bacewicz and Witold Lutosławski. His style developed in three distinct stages: from a strong affinity with Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabin and fellow countryman Frédéric Chopin, to flavourings of the Orient, the Mediterranean, and the impressionism of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, to a nationalist…