Witold Lutosławski
Publisher: Chester Music
Musique funèbre [Muzyka zalobna] (1958)
Work Notes
Chester Music is the publisher of this work in all territories except Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, China, countries of the former Czechoslovakia, countries of the former Yugoslavia, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Romania, Hungary and the whole territory of the former USSR, where the copyright is held by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (PWM).
Publisher
Chester Music Ltd (Polish Works)
Sub Category
String Orchestra
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Programme Note
LUTOSLAWSKI – MUSIQUE FUNEBRE
This work for strings is dedicated to the memory of Bela Bartók. Musique Funebre is a one-movement work made up of four linked sections: ‘Prologue’, ‘Metamorphosis’, ‘Apogeum’ and ‘Epilogue’. The first is constructed in the form of alternating canons based on a 12-tone row based exclusively on tritones and minor seconds. The ‘Metamorphosis’ builds up to a violent presto, while the ‘Apogeum’. The centre of the work leads to a central unison by contraction of the pitches used. The final ‘Epilogue’ begins fortissimo, after which the canons reappear until only a solo cello remains.
Musique Funebre was written at the invitation of Jan Krenz in 1958 and first performed by the Great Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television conducted by Jan Krenz on 26 march 1958 in Katowice.
© Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble
Suiss Romande Orchestra / London Sinfonietta / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Cleveland Orchestra
Soloist(s)
P. Pears, tenor
P. Jablonski, piano
Conductor
P. Kletzki / Witold Lutoslawski / V. Ashkenazy / C. von Dohnanyi
Ensemble
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Soloist(s)
Michel Lethiec, clarinet / Isabelle Moretti, harp / François Leleux, oboe / François Salque, cello
Ensemble
Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra
Soloist(s)
K. Jakowicz, violin
Ensemble
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Polish National Radio Orchestra
Soloist(s)
H. Schiff, celloM. Argerich, piano / N. Freire, pianoD. Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Conductor
Witold lutoslawski / W. Rowicki / W. Lutoslawski / W. Rowicki
Ensemble
Karlsruhe Music School Symphony Orchestra
Soloist(s)
K-G. Kameda, violin
Conductor
Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Ensemble
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Soloist(s)
K. Bakowski, violin
Ensemble
Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie
Conductor
Jean-Paul Dessy
Ensemble
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor
Witold Lutoslawski / Edo de Waart