Szymanowski: Symphony No. 2 - Lutoslawski: Livre & Musique funèbre

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Label
Accentus Music
Release Date
January 29, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LUTOSLAWSKI SZYMANOWSKI
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Leibreich
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 29, 2016
    • UPC
      4260234831047
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ACC30349
    • LABEL
      Accentus Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato - Grazioso

      Composer: Karol Szymanowski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    2. II. Theme - Variations 1-6 - Fuga

      Composer: Karol Szymanowski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    3. Chapter 1

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    4. Interlude 1

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    5. Chapter 2

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    6. Interlude 2

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    7. Chapter 3

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    8. Interlude 3 and Final Chapter

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    9. I. Prologue: half note = 88 -

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    10. II. Metamorphoses -

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    11. III. Apogee: Molto appassionato, quasi rubato -

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

    12. IV. Epilogue

      Composer: Witold Lutosławski

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Liebreich


The Polish National Radio Orchestra is the country's leading performing ensemble and one of Europe's finest broadcasting orchestras. Building on a long tradition, the group performs throughout the world as a musical ambassador for Poland, often featuring works by Polish composers - as the pieces by Karol Szymanowski and Witold Lutoslawski on this CD impressively demonstrate. This is the orchestra's second album with their Principal Conductor Alexander Liebreich. Their first CD together, also with compositions by Szymanowski and Lutoslawski, is already cited as a reference recording, with "thrilling, technically brilliant performances." (Der Tagesspiegel) In the work of these twentieth century masters, we encounter "exquisite compositional refinement of the highest order, born of an awareness of the European tradition," according to Alexander Liebreich. Szymanowski's powerful and imaginative Symphony No. 2, Lutoslawski's groundbreaking Musique fun�bre � la m�moire de B�la Bart�k and his masterpiece Livre pour Orchestre were recorded in Katowice's new concert hall, which opened in 2014 and is already celebrated for it's phenomenal acoustics.