Steve Schwartz wrote: >Tim Dickinson: > >>I keep seeing people rave about Lutoslawski...My only exposure to his >>music was an old Vox LP with the Holligers playing on the Double Concerto >>for Harp and Oboe with Michael Giellen conducting. Unfortunately, this >>piece didn't motivate me to search down more Lutoslawski. Was it perhaps >>not a logical starting point for this composer? > >I would try the Concerto for Orchestra or the short Variations on a Theme by >Paganini for 2 pianos. Not the Lutoslawski most people think of, but two >very attractive works nevertheless. Second the motion, and strongly suggest the Cleveland/Dohnanyi recording of Concerto for Orchestra, coupled with Bartok's, if still available. The Dance Preludes are very entertaining, but there is a similar sort of break between these ingratiating works and that which f0llows as there is in Stravinsky, perhaps, between the Russian-influenced works, through Les Noces, say, and that which follows, or from the post-Romantic Schoenberg and his next stylistic plateau. Still, it's wonderful music. Joel