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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994): Branching out

Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)

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Donald Macleod focuses on the different strands of Lutoslawski's work in the 50s and 60s.

Donald Macleod introduces us to Lutoslawski's alter-ego, Derwid, and explores his conducting career and reaction to both further political unrest in Poland and personal tragedy.

Witold Lutoslawski's extraordinary life mirrors the turbulent history of his homeland Poland, yet he consistently denied the effect of any of this tumult on his music. Donald Macleod is joined this week by Dr Nicholas Reyland to explore the truth of this denial alongside the life and career of one the most revered composers of the Twentieth Century. Wednesday's episode introduces us to the composer's alter-ego, Derwid, and explores Lutoslawaski's conducting career, and his reaction to both further political unrest in Poland and personal tragedy.

"Derwid": Nie oczekuje dzis nikogo (I'm not expecting anyone today)
Rena Rolska (vocals)
Polish Radio Dance Orchestra
Ryszard Damrosz (conductor)

Livre pour Orchestre
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Witold Lutoslawski (conductor)

Cello Concerto
Rostropovich (cello)
Orchestre de Paris
Witold Lutoslawski (conductor)

Producer: Sam Phillips.

Composer of the Week: Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)

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Donald Macleod explores works by Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski.

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