Disc Details

Contents

Work Title	Composer
Dance Preludes [Preludia taneczne]	Witold Lutosławski	Listen
Double Concerto [Koncert podwojny]	Witold Lutosławski	Listen
Grave (Metamorphoses for cello and strings)	Witold Lutosławski
Musique funèbre [Muzyka zalobna]	Witold Lutosławski	Listen
Overture for Strings [Uwertura smyczkowa ]	Witold Lutosławski	Listen

Reviews

• In the disc's most substantial piece, the Funeral music for strings, Sinfonietta Cracovia plays with exactly the kind of well-focused homogeneity the score requires, and Robert Kabara gives the music's very explicit polarities and symmetries a strong dramatic profile. The concerto for oboe and harp is also well played. The relatively early Overture comes across strongly, a good example of how Lutoslawski could turn his doubts about neo-classicism to positive use.
  Arnold Whittall, Gramophone, 01 September 2004
• Lutoslawski's explorations revealed, and go on revealing, new worlds of imagination…weirdly beautiful atmosphere that lingers in the memory. Techniques that on paper seem dauntingly cerebral turn out to be more like magic spells, opening doors into dream territory
  , BBC Music Magazine