This exceptional multi-album set offers Chandos’s complete Lutoslawski series, featuring a string of the composer’s masterpieces performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner in exemplary partnership, along with some of Chandos’ finest soloists, and captured in surround-sound. It includes all five albums as well as the original booklets, and is offered at a highly discounted price. The featured soloists on these albums include soprano Lucy Crowe, tenor Toby Spence, baritone Christopher Purves, clarinetist Michael Collins, violinist Tasmin Little, cellist Paul Watkins, and pianist Louis Lortie.
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Review excerpts of some of the previously released volumes included in this set:
The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays this sometimes tricky music with great proficiency and understanding, and Gardner’s inspiring leadership, plus first class Chandos sound, enables us to hear every strand of the texture.
This disc is a further triumph in a series that looks like it’s becoming the finest overview yet of the work of one of the late 20th-century’s most significant composers.
With the best lineup of soloists around and the BBC Symphony Orchestra on top form, this was always going to be something a bit special, and it lives up to expectations.
