Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto/Symphony No. 2

This album follows up Krystian Zimerman and Sir Simon Rattle’s award winning DG recording of Brahm’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Lutoslawski’s Piano Concerto, written in 1988, is dedicated to Krystian Zimerman and was presented by him the first time to audiences in Salzburg in the same year.The piece features extremely virtuosic demands, its dense pianistic gestures at times recall the piano concertos of Bartók and Prokofiev. The Symphony No. 2, created with techniques of “limited aleatoricism” (Lutoslawski), fascinates with its orchestral surfaces that offer an insight into their creator’s ability to organize sounds in a very precise way and their iridescent and colorful vitality.

1: Dotted Quarter Note = 110 - Quarter Note = 70 (Original Version)
2: Presto - Poco Meno Mosso - Lento (Original Version)
3: Eighth Note Ca. 85 - Largo (Original Version)
4: Quarter Note = 84 - Presto (Original Version)
5: Hésitant
6: Direct

Composer: Witold Lutoslawski

Conductor: Simon Rattle

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker

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