This Chandos album featuring Edward Gardner leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra is an excellent introduction to the works for solo voice and orchestra that made up an important but sometimes overlooked part of Witold Lutoslawski's output. The earliest piece is a ravishing 1937 Lacrimosa for soprano, the only surviving section of a projected requiem, that demonstrates the composer's mastery of intensely expressive post-Romantic lyricism and his gift for vocal writing. Silesian Triptych, also for soprano and orchestra, was ...
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This Chandos album featuring Edward Gardner leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra is an excellent introduction to the works for solo voice and orchestra that made up an important but sometimes overlooked part of Witold Lutoslawski's output. The earliest piece is a ravishing 1937 Lacrimosa for soprano, the only surviving section of a projected requiem, that demonstrates the composer's mastery of intensely expressive post-Romantic lyricism and his gift for vocal writing. Silesian Triptych, also for soprano and orchestra, was written in 1951, when the composer was subject to the demand for "Soviet realism" imposed by the forces occupying Poland. In his setting of these songs, based on simple folk tunes, Lutoslawski transcends stylistic constraints; this is clearly the work of an exceptional creative imagination, a major composer. The luminous end of the second song for instance, is so unexpected yet so utterly apt, so right, that it almost takes one's breath away. Paroles tissées for tenor and orchestra from...
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