Lutosławski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables; Les Espaces du Sommeil; Paroles Tissées, etc – review

Crowe/Spence/Purves/BBC SO/Gardner (Chandos)After he developed his distinctive style in the late 1950s and early 60s, Witold Lutosławski composed just three works including a voice, so the rest of Edward Gardner's fine survey of his vocal music is bulked out with rarely heard early settings – a Lacrimosa from 1937, the folksy Silesian Triptych for soprano and orchestra from 1951 and one of the four Children's Songs with chamber orchestra from three years later. The major works here, though, r...

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