Your Top 5 Favorite Lutoslawski Works

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I'm not sure how popular Lutoslawski is around here, but what are your 'Top 5 Favorite Works' from him?

Mine (in no particular order):

Symphony No. 4
Piano Concerto
Les Espaces du Sommeil
Silesian Triptych
Little Suite

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Symphony #3
String Quartet
Piano Concerto
Cello Concerto
Concerto for Orchestra

Really though, his work is at an extraordinarily high level throughout. I can listen to just about anything and like it.

(BTW, I've managed to hear all of these live, except for the Piano Cto)

[kishnevi]

Lutoslawski has very little presence in my CD shelves:  the PC  and Second Symphony with Zimmerman/Rattle, and this one which may have slipped under your radar
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The cello concerto is the one that impressed me most, but I must confess he is not a composer who has drawn me on to explore more.

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Symphony #3
String Quartet
Piano Concerto
Cello Concerto
Concerto for Orchestra

Really though, his work is at an extraordinarily high level throughout. I can listen to just about anything and like it.

There are a few works that give me some difficulty, but I pretty much agree. He was a remarkably consistent composer. I find that his works for voice and orchestra are some of the finest song cycles of the 20th Century. He had such an incredible ear for texture and provided just the right amount of atmosphere to these types of works. Nice list, btw.

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Lutoslawski has very little presence in my CD shelves:  the PC  and Second Symphony with Zimmerman/Rattle, and this one which may have slipped under your radar
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The cello concerto is the one that impressed me most, but I must confess he is not a composer who has drawn me on to explore more.

I never have liked his Symphony No. 2. I think that's really one of his weakest works IMHO. You really should give a listen to his works for voice and orchestra sometime. There's a recording with Edward Gardner on Chandos that's devoted to just to these works that I imagine would impress you.

[kishnevi]

I never have liked his Symphony No. 2. I think that's really one of his weakest works IMHO. You really should give a listen to his works for voice and orchestra sometime. There's a recording with Edward Gardner on Chandos that's devoted to just to these works that I imagine would impress you.

That would be this one?
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Wish listed.

Looking for it, I reminded myself I have this one.
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But the Dalbavie was what I liked best there.

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That would be this one?
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Wish listed.

Yep, that would be the one. Actually, it'd be nice if Chandos boxed up all of Gardner's Lutoslawski recordings. His series is one of the best out there.

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Symphony #3
Six Children's Song
Cello Concerto
Symphony #4
Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra

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Symphony #3
Six Children's Song
Cello Concerto
Symphony #4
Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra

Nice list, Paul I need to familiarize myself with Six Children's Songs. I haven't heard that song cycle in ages. Looks like there's only one recording of it, too (on Naxos w/ Wit conducting).

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Nice list, Paul I need to familiarize myself with Six Children's Songs. I haven't heard that song cycle in ages. Looks like there's only one recording of it, too (on Naxos w/ Wit conducting).

That's the one I have.

I remember playing it when Kimi was two. Someone in the house said: "How could avant garde music be children's song! Change it to some normal children's songs!" Then 2 year-old Kimi said: "I like it!" Haha!

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That's the one I have.

I remember playing it when Kimi was two. Someone in the house said: "How could avant garde music be children's song! Change it to some normal children's songs!" Then 2 year-old Kimi said: "I like it!" Haha!

Kimi had a great ears even then.

[Brian]

As an old-fashioned type, my picks are pretty dull...

Concerto for Orchestra
Twenty Polish Christmas Carols
Dance Preludes for clarinet and orchestra
Paganini Variations
Five Songs for female voice and 30 soloists

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As an old-fashioned type, my picks are pretty dull...

Concerto for Orchestra
Twenty Polish Christmas Carols
Dance Preludes for clarinet and orchestra
Paganini Variations
Five Songs for female voice and 30 soloists

Forgot the Paganini Variations. I just might replace the Double Concerto with it.

[Sergeant Rock]

Partita for Violin and Orchestra
Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Orchestra
Symphonic Variations
Variations on a Theme by Paganini
Symphony No.1

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Preludes and a Fugue for 13 solo strings

Symphony No. 3

Piano Concerto

Les Espaces du sommeil

Symphony No. 4

[Mister Sharpe]

Chantefleurs et Chantefables Please don't tell me I'm the only one who really loves these.  In which case..."They're all mine, MINE, I TELL YOU!" 
Symphony 4
PC
Les Espaces du Sommeil
Double Concerto

[vandermolen]

I like the Concerto for Orchestra but don't know much more although I was actually in his company when he visited the university I studied at in the 1970s.

[Gaspard de la nuit]

Chain III
Symphony No. 3
Jeux vénitiens
Mi-parti
Cello Concerto

Though I could easily swap any of them with Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux, Preludes and Fugue or Symphony No. 4

[kyjo]

There are still quite a few Lutoslawski works I don't know yet, but as it stands:

Concerto for Orchestra
Cello Concerto
Symphony no. 4
Musique funebre
Piano Sonata

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Cello Concerto
Livres for Orchestra
Chain 3
Symphony 3
Piano Concerto