Composer: Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki
Performer: Michael Foyle, Maksim Štšura
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Release: 2019
Size: 724 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Lutosławski: Subito, for violin & piano
02. Lutosławski: Recitativo e arioso
Penderecki: Violin Sonata No. 1
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Andante
05. III. Allegro vivace
Penderecki: Three Miniatures for Violin & Piano
06. No. 1,
07. No. 2,
08. No. 3,
Lutosławski: Partita for violin & piano
09. I. Allegro giusto
10. II. Ad libitum
11. III. Largo
12. IV. Ad libitum
13. V. Presto
Penderecki: Violin Sonata No. 2
14. I. Larghetto
15. II. Allegretto scherzando
16. III. Notturno. Adagio
17. IV. Allegro
18. V. Andante
Repression and censorship; optimism and freedom; renewed constraints. If this sounds like a now all too familiar story of political progress achieved and then reversed, then this stunning survey of chamber works by two of Poland’s leading post-war composers suggests that music was there to bear witness to each twist and turn of the tale.From the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s and 1960s to the triumphant re-establishment of democracy near century s end, these vital utterances range from the exploded intensities of Penderecki’s Three Miniatures to the lean, focused expressive charge of Lutoslawski’s Partita and the millennial anxieties of Penderecki’s Violin Sonata No 2.On their first recording with Delphian Records, Michael Foyle and Maksim Štšura transmit every nuance, while giving these works new life as a statement of intent for virtues so unwavering as to seem like a reproach to the inconstancies of political life alert collaboration, reciprocity, freedom, precision, joy.