He would later complain about the rushed circumstances (he met the conductor and orchestra for the first time at the session), and indeed the jarring discontinuous leaps between sections suggest hasty preparation. At 144 it leveled off at the assigned 33,000 feet. Der H vetter retter, as he played it at his first major public concert in December 1900 and his last television appearance in 1979. Indeed, Szymanowski dabbled in a number of other styles (Slavic, French, German) before returning to his Polish folk roots and this work melds all these influences with a nice modern cosmopolitan feel and makes a fine impression, even if it?s not an especially memorable or lasting one.