Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol.4
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5108
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 25th February 2013
Contents
Works
Chain no.2: Dialogue for violin and orchestraDance Preludes (version for clarinet and orchestra)
Partita for violin and orchestra
Symphony no.1
Artists
Michael Collins (clarinet)Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Edward GardnerWorks
Chain no.2: Dialogue for violin and orchestraDance Preludes (version for clarinet and orchestra)
Partita for violin and orchestra
Symphony no.1
Artists
Michael Collins (clarinet)Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Edward GardnerAbout
Lutosławski wrote his Symphony No.1 between 1941 and 1947, but interestingly it does not display any obvious signs of his trying to come to terms with the ordeal that befell his people. Quite the opposite, in fact. Lutosławski himself described the symphony as bright and cheerful, ‘because that was the idea of the composition, which was conceived in the period of independence before the war, but brought into being during the terrible wartime and in far from idyllic post-war years’. At the time, one Polish colleague went so far as to call it ‘fauvist’, so wild and vibrant did it appear to the audiences at its first performance in April 1948.
Lutosławski was a meticulous collector of folk materials in the first half of the 1950s, but for him, Dance Preludes was a ‘farewell to folklore’, even though he privately still explored folk tunes for several more years. Here the orchestra and conductor are joined by the clarinettist Michael Collins, an exclusive Chandos artist.
As his career developed in the more open environment that emerged after the ‘socialist-realist’ period, Lutosławski began to receive international recognition, and with the Partita (1984, orchestrated 1988) for violin and orchestra, he presented a newly relaxed, more melodic compositional style to the public. The soloist is the exclusive Chandos artist Tasmin Little.
Chain 2 (1984–85) was premiered by Anne-Sophie Mutter on 31 January 1986 with Collegium Musicum, conducted by Paul Sacher to whom it was dedicated. On this recording Tasmin Little leads the orchestra through a succession of ideas, much as the soloist had done in the ‘Episodes’ movement of the Cello Concerto.
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