Since you are interested in Lutoslawski’s Last Concert, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Cello Concerto / Chain No. 3 / Novelette Andrezej Bauer (cello) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2002 ] "his is an excellent disc; fine music, well played and recorded, and all at the special Naxos price...the disc as a whole conveys of some of the most characterful and individual music of the last 30 years." Gramophone |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol 3: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor, with Bernd Glemser, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "a series that is setting high standards in budget-price contemporary music....Wit conjures a fantastic range of tone colour from his well-drilled Polish orchestra ...the third symphony has never sounded more convincing" - Classic CD |
KAROL LUTOSLAWSKI
Szymanowski: Complete Music for Violin and Piano (with Szymanowski-Mythes and Janacek-Violin Sonata) Ariadne Daskalakis (violin) / Miri Yampolsky (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Mar/2009 ] The lives of the three Eastern European composers on this disc spanned almost 150 years (1854-1994), a period of dramatic historical change, political turmoil and radical developments in Western music. Janácˇek, Lutosławski and Szymanowski each left... |
Krzysztof Bakowski, Violin, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wit
Lutoslawski-Funeral Music for Strings, Chain II: Dialogue for Violin & Orch + [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2001 ] one of the greatest 20th-century Polish music artists |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Orchestral Works Volume 6 (Incls 'Symphony No. 1' & 'Silesian Triptych') Olga Pasiecznik (Soprano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "...not only a sizzling account of the First Symphony, but a fine performance of the late song-sequence Chantefleurs et Chantefables." - Gramophone Critics' choice 1999(Arnold Whittall) |
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works, Vol.5 (Includes Concerto for Orchestra & Poames d'Henri Michaux) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] Witold Lutoslawski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1913, and was fortunate enough to study both the piano and composition privately. He was almost twenty before he entered the Warsaw Conservatory to conclude his education. He was taught composition the... |
Polish NRSO / Antoni Wit
Lutoslawski - Preludes and Fugue for 13 solo strings Three Preludes Fanfares [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] More Lutoslawski from Naxos |
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY
Discover The Symphony: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] From modest beginnings in eighteenth-century Italy, the symphony soon developed into the highest form of western instrumental music at the hands of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The symphony became a big, public form that used the community of the... |