Concerto for orchestra (Lutosławski)

The Concerto for orchestra of the Compositeur Polish Witold Lutosławski is written in the years 1950 -54, on the initiative of the artistic director of the Philharmonic orchestra of Warsaw, Witold Rowicki, with which it is dedicated. The concerto comprises three movements, lasts approximately 30 minutes and constitutes the point of final organ of the folk style of works of Lutosławski. This style is inspired by the music of the area of Kurpie in Poland. Having before written a series of small folk parts for various instruments and their combinations (piano, clarinet with piano, together of chamber music, orchestrate, voice with orchestra), Lutosławski decides to use its experiment of stylization of the Polish folklore in a more important work. The Concerto for orchestra is distinguished from these former works, not only by its duration but also because what it retains of the folklore is only the melody topics. The type-setter the bottom in a different reality, adds counterpoints lacking tone, and transforms them into forms Néo-baroque S.

The three movements are the following:

Intrada - a kind of wide opening.
Capriccio notturno ED Arioso -
Passacaglia, Toccata has Corale -

The second appearance of Corale produces final solemn for this monumental construction; its material is resulting from a collection of the XIXe century gathered by a Ethnologue Polish, Oskar Kolberg.

Work was created with Warsaw the November 26th 1954; it contributed to the recognition of Lutosławski in the West. However Lutosławski adopted then, to the years 1960, a style marked by the Dodécaphonisme and seconded itself from this concerto.

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