In the sixty years since its première, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra has been recorded a handful of times and has started to gain a tentative foothold within the established concert repertoire. However, in all that time, few people have made a case for the Concerto being a towering masterpiece of the twentieth century quite as persuasively as Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, who delivered a triumphant performance as part of their appearance at Musikfest Berlin. Indeed, the whole evening – which featured an equally magnificent reading of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra – was thrilling from beginning to end and will certainly stand as one of the highlights of this year’s festival. Lutosławski’s Concerto – a three movement work dedicated to the memory of Bartók – was completed in 1954, and is the…
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