Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra & Symphony No. 4

[there is an] imaginative flair and subtlety of touch about Krzysztof Urbánski’s conception [of the Concerto for Orchestra]…[the Fourth Symphony] receives such lucid and dedicated advocacy that... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

Release Date: 18th Mar 2016
Catalogue No: ALPHA232
Label: Alpha
Length: 55 minutes

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Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra

Work length27:55

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Krzysztof Urbański, NDR Sinfonieorchester
Recorded: 17-19 December 2014
Recording Venue: Laeiszhalle Hamburg

I. Intrada (Allegro maestoso)

Track length6:55

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II. Capriccio notturno e arioso (Vivace)

Track length5:24

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III. Passacaglia, toccata e corale (Allegro con moto - Allegro giusto)

Track length15:36

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Lutosławski: Little Suite (Mala suita)

Work length9:32

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Krzysztof Urbański, NDR Sinfonieorchester

I. Fujarka (Allegretto)

Track length2:38

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II. Hurra polka (Vivace)

Track length1:26

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III. Piosenka (Andante, molto sostenuto)

Track length2:43

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IV. Taniec (Allegro molto)

Track length2:45

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Lutosławski: Symphony No. 4

Work length18:43

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Krzysztof Urbański, NDR Sinfonieorchester

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Since 2015, Krzysztof Urbański has been principal guest conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, one of the leading German orchestras. They are currently preparing together the inauguration in January 2017 of Hamburg’s new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, a major musical event in Germany with which Alpha Classics will be associated. Krzysztof Urbański is also music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. A resolutely international career for a young conductor who recently earned praise from the Chicago Tribune for ‘his keen musical instincts and vigorous way of translating his ideas into orchestral sound that has both shape and meaning’.

For this first recording, he was keen to celebrate a great composer, one of the most eminent of the twentieth century and a Pole like himself, who, like Stravinsky, Bartók, Berg, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, gloried in the sound material of the orchestra and displayed boundless imagination. Though less well known than his illustrious colleagues for the moment, Lutosławski amply deserves to meet a wider public, for his music can speak as directly to connoisseurs as to simple music-lovers. We hope that this programme will help to further his reputation.

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May 2016

[there is an] imaginative flair and subtlety of touch about Krzysztof Urbánski’s conception [of the Concerto for Orchestra]…[the Fourth Symphony] receives such lucid and dedicated advocacy that one hopes for more Lutoslawski from this impressive young conductor…very warmly recommended.

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