Since you are interested in Symphony No. 2 / Little Suite (Mala suita) / Cello Concerto, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Symphonic Variations / Symphony No. 4 / Piano Concerrto Louis Lortie (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine April 2012 |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables / Silesian Triptych / Sleep, sleep / Lacrimosa / Les Espaces du sommeil / Paroles tissées Lucy Crowe (soprano) / Toby Spence (tenor) / Christopher Purves (baritone) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] "Christopher Purves proves a wonderfully secure exponent in a reading which combines tingling atmosphere and arresting drama to consistently riveting effect." Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Concerto for Orchestra / Symphony No. 3 / Chain 3 BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "On this evidence, Edward Gardner and the BBC SO are a dream team, pressing the claims of a composer who has been neglected since his death in 1994...This performance sets a seal on a disc that leaves one eager for its successors" Gramophone Magazine |
JOSEF SUK
Orchestral works: Praga, Symphonic Poem / A Summer's Tale BBC Symphony Orchestra. Jirí Belohlávek [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Orchestral |
FRANZ SCHMIDT
Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln (The Book of the Seven Seals) Johannes Chum (tenor), Robert Holl (bassbaritone), Sandra Trattnigg (soprano), Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano) / Wiener Singverein, Kristjan Järvi [ Chandos / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] "With Robert Holl a sympathetically soft-grained God and Johannes Chum a sweetly lyrical rather than heroically over-forced St John, this Book now stands as top choice." (BBC Music) |