Lutoslawski - Piano Concerto, Symphony No.2 | Deutsche Grammophon 4794518

Lutoslawski - Piano Concerto, Symphony No.2

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 4794518

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 14th August 2015

Contents

Artists

Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Works

Lutoslawski, Witold

Piano Concerto
Symphony no.2

Artists

Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Simon Rattle

About

This album continues the successful collaboration of Krystian Zimerman and Sir Simon Rattle. For their DG recording of Brahm’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berliner Philharmoniker they received the German Record Critics' Award.
 
Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto was completed in 1988 and is dedicated to Krystian Zimerman, who also first introduced it to Salzburg audiences in the same year, in 1992 DG released a first version of the concerto with Lutosławski as conductor and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The piece features extremely virtuosic demands, its dense pianistic gestures at times recalling the piano concertos of Bartók and Prokofiev.
 
The Second Symphony received its first complete performance in Katowice on 9 June 1967, when the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra was conducted by the composer.

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