Lutoslawski's Last Concert

"Naxos has just released a recording of the last public concert conducted by the great Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94), who led Toronto's superb New Music Concerts Ensemble in such compelling works as 'Partita' and 'Chain 2,' both mini violin concertos performed confidently by Fujiko Imajishi. As the anti-Soviet Solidarity movement bloomed in his native land in the nineteen-eighties, the composer, who prized mathematical precision, allowed a startlingly sensual lyricism to enter his music. The resulting style, both noble and accessible, remains an elegant rebuke to the ignorance and brutality of unchecked power" (Russell Platt, "Classical Notes," New Yorker, 1/31/11, p. 17).
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