Lutoslawski: Vocal and Orchestral Works
$80.00
Low Stock
add to cart
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Vocal and Orchestral Works
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[ Chandos SACD / 5 Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 February 2018
Should this item be out of stock at the time of your order, we would expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 5 business days.
This exceptional box set offers Chandos' complete Lutosławski series, featuring a string of the composer's masterpieces performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner in exemplary partnership, along with some of Chandos' finest soloists, and captured in surround-sound.
"Gardner makes the most of the taut rhythmic energy in the music...all the colours of this showpiece [the Concerto for Orchestra] are brightly painted, with a virtuosity which is never empty, but always has direction and purpose, and a sense of real enjoyment" Gramophone on Orchestral Vol 1
"Toby Spence is on mellifluous form here, and Christopher Purves is no less subtle in the nocturnal cycle Les espaces du sommeil...An attractively varied, highly accomplished release." BBC on Vocal Works
"Gardner and the BBC Symphony, backed up by glittering sound, do [the Symphonic Variations] proud, from the folk-like opening flute theme, through its varied treatments...Lortie is an ideal soloist [in the Concerto], with a clarity of touch familiar from his recordings of the French repertoire, but also the power for the bigger gestures...Again, Gardner leads a detailed, musically sure-paced orchestral contribution." BBC Music on Orchestral Vol 2
Tracks:
Symphony No. 3 (1981-83)
Chain 3 (1986)
Concerto for Orchestra (1950-54)
Tryptyk slaski (1951)
Lacrimosa (1937)
Piroles tissees (1965)
Spijze, spij (1954)
Les Espaces du sommeil (1975)
Chantefleurs et Chantefables (1990)
Symphonic Variations (1936-38)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1987-88)
Variations on a Theme of Paganini (1978)
Symphony No. 4 (1988-92)
Mala suita (1950)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1969-70)
Grave (1982)
Symphony No. 2 (1965-67)
Symphony No. 1 (1941-47)
Partita (1988)
Chain 2 (1984-85)
Preludia taneczne (1955)
