Alexander Liebreich conducts Szymanowski & Lutosławski

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Altogether a superb programme — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016

Release Date: 31st Dec 2015
Catalogue No: ACC30349
Label: Accentus Music
Length: 64 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

April 2016

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Szymanowski: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19

Work length30:51

$7.00

$9.00

Piotr Tarcholik (violin)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich
Recorded: 30 June and 26-27 August 2015
Recording Venue: NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland

Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: I. Allegro moderato - Grazioso

Track length11:17

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$3.85

Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: II. Tema - Variazioni - Fuga

Track length19:34

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$5.15

Lutosławski: Livre pour orchestre

Work length20:31

$8.00

$10.35

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich
Recorded: 30 June and 26-27 August 2015
Recording Venue: NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland

Livre pour orchestre: Chapter 1

Track length3:47

$1.00

$1.30

Livre pour orchestre: Interlude 1

Track length0:31

$1.00

$1.30

Livre pour orchestre: Chapter 2

Track length3:01

$1.00

$1.30

Livre pour orchestre: Interlude 2

Track length0:31

$1.00

$1.30

Livre pour orchestre: Chapter 3

Track length1:56

$1.00

$1.30

Livre pour orchestre: Interlude 3 & Final Chapter

Track length10:45

$3.00

$3.85

Lutosławski: Musique Funébre

Work length13:22

$4.00

$5.20

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich
Recorded: 30 June and 26-27 August 2015
Recording Venue: NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland

Musique funèbre: I. Prologue. Half Note = 88

Track length3:49

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$1.30

Musique funèbre: II. Metamorphoses

Track length4:37

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$1.30

Musique funèbre: III. Apogée. Molto appassionato, quasi rubato

Track length0:38

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$1.30

Musique funèbre: IV. Epilogue

Track length4:18

$1.00

$1.30

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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 Lutosławski 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 Lutosławski, 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, Lutosławski’s groundbreaking Musique funèbre à la mémoire de Béla Bartók and his masterpiece Livre pour Orchestre were recorded in Katowice’s new concert hall, which opened in 2014 and is already celebrated for its phenomenal acoustics.

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April 2016

Altogether a superb programme

Alexander Liebreich conducts Szymanowski & Lutosławski

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