Witold is not a passive experience. It demands your attention. Once you force yourself to engage vs being led by predictable rhythms and chords. You're not only hooked you're transformed. He is a painter as much as he is a master of sound and composition. Salonen and the LA Phil does him justice. Fantastic, thanks!
The loss of this incredible composer looms huge! A true musical genius of the 20th/21st centuries. His orchestral works are master lessons in imagination, timing and combining beautiful textures. These works will live forever especially under the baton of Salonen, also a fine composer.
I don't think his loss looms - WL is dead, alas. I attended his composition classes at Dartington. He trusted me with his annotated score of the Henry Michaux poems so I could study it overnight. A true gentleman and one of the great composers of the 20th century.
@@keybawd4023 Maybe Josef just forgot to put a 2 in front of where it would've said 0 years ago when he wrote the comment. (Although that would mean he wrote his comment in 1995, so still a dead Witold at that time. Will Josef ever learn!?).😉
el primer escucha es muy interesante la combinación de sonidos, pero en la segunda vez cuando ya conoces y sabes lo que te espera descubrís una unión melódica armónica y rítmica hermosa. tremenda obra de música y gran interpretación.
My wife and I attended the premiere of the 4th in LA conducted by the composer. Because we paid for Founders tickets we got to meet him. When I was in grad school I analyzed several of his compositions…..obviously a big fan.
Absolutely gorgeous addition to the symphonic repertoire which I did not know existed. I know the 2nd and 3rd, but to my shame didn't know there WAS a fourth! Thank you so much
I discovered this work when I was about 18, and it utterly floored me and opened my mind to many other works of new music thereafter. The opening is probably still my favorite 2 min of music. I think this is Lutoslawski's greatest masterpiece (which is really saying something). I also think this is probably the best live recording of it too.
I Love You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a perfect piece of fitting sound and rhythm in one verse!!!! I woke up have never heard such a masterpiece!!!!!
The guy dies in 1994 but enjoy his music! Then try Szymanowski and Dobrowolski. Poland is great, Romania is great - also in terms of modern classical music :D
This symphony is more than a reflection of an era. It’s a phantom asteroid who returns to set his sights on sound art. A stupendous wave laden with paradoxes from which obscurantism and the irrational escape, hypnotic factors defying vulnerable souls in search of the infinity 🌴
A une première écoute il y a trop de choses dans ce concerto. Décousu, beaucoup de belles choses et grande orchestration, mais on aimerait plus de construction, comme s il y avait trop d'idées mises toutes à la suiute l'une de l'autre.
Then you must listen again.. multiple times.... If the first 7 or 8 minutes of the great work do not make sense to you, I simply can't imagine what you think you're hearing in works of the earlier traditional repertoire.
Witold is not a passive experience. It demands your attention. Once you force yourself to engage vs being led by predictable rhythms and chords. You're not only hooked you're transformed. He is a painter as much as he is a master of sound and composition. Salonen and the LA Phil does him justice. Fantastic, thanks!
The loss of this incredible composer looms huge! A true musical genius of the 20th/21st centuries. His orchestral works are master lessons in imagination, timing and combining beautiful textures. These works will live forever especially under the baton of Salonen, also a fine composer.
So true every word.
Josef Sekon h
I don't think his loss looms - WL is dead, alas. I attended his composition classes at Dartington. He trusted me with his annotated score of the Henry Michaux poems so I could study it overnight. A true gentleman and one of the great composers of the 20th century.
@@keybawd4023 Maybe Josef just forgot to put a 2 in front of where it would've said 0 years ago when he wrote the comment. (Although that would mean he wrote his comment in 1995, so still a dead Witold at that time. Will Josef ever learn!?).😉
He lived to be 81. We all gotta go sometime.
Listening to it while Putin is bombing Kyiv, it's my favourite symphony with the strongest message!
As opposed to America bombing every country that doesn't comport with its ideal of liberal democracy.
el primer escucha es muy interesante la combinación de sonidos, pero en la segunda vez cuando ya conoces y sabes lo que te espera descubrís una unión melódica armónica y rítmica hermosa. tremenda obra de música y gran interpretación.
My wife and I attended the premiere of the 4th in LA conducted by the composer. Because we paid for Founders tickets we got to meet him. When I was in grad school I analyzed several of his compositions…..obviously a big fan.
Absolutely gorgeous addition to the symphonic repertoire which I did not know existed. I know the 2nd and 3rd, but to my shame didn't know there WAS a fourth! Thank you so much
I love what happens in the strings at about 11:00. And one of the most beautiful openings of any work in recent memory. Utterly haunting.
his most accessible
and yet most profoundly sad work
Symphonie n°4 plus classique que la symphonie n°3, beaucoup plus audacieuse !!!!!
Que final!!! 😮 increíble escucharlo!!!
I discovered this work when I was about 18, and it utterly floored me and opened my mind to many other works of new music thereafter. The opening is probably still my favorite 2 min of music. I think this is Lutoslawski's greatest masterpiece (which is really saying something). I also think this is probably the best live recording of it too.
I agree, certainly his best symphony.
Pięknie, oto momenty bycia dumnym Polakiem.
Dziękuje ci za te słowa Czy3 symfonia Beethovena nie jest jwdnak troszkę lepsza
@@cymeusz Ja wolę Lutosa. Tak czy inaczej na tych wyżynach nie ma już hierarchii.
I Love You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a perfect piece of fitting sound and rhythm in one verse!!!! I woke up have never heard such a masterpiece!!!!!
The guy dies in 1994 but enjoy his music! Then try Szymanowski and Dobrowolski. Poland is great, Romania is great - also in terms of modern classical music :D
Thanks.
This symphony is more than a reflection of an era. It’s a phantom asteroid who returns to set his sights on sound art. A stupendous wave laden with paradoxes from which obscurantism and the irrational escape, hypnotic factors defying vulnerable souls in search of the infinity 🌴
🤢🪴
🌞☀@@veloavtor8853
Love this conductor. Extraordinary piece; brilliant interpretation.
An incredible work by an old master with nothing left to prove. Confident, intelligent, romantic and thrilling
I listen to this symphony the third time and music penetrates me more and more.
i have never seen such a beautiful music! Bravo Lutoslavsky! Amaizing!!!!
It is so beautiful, it is like the mind of the stars in the night
Well said.
Oo. Like the mind of the stars in the night. I like that!
you sense the urgency in this music, it's as though the gestures are packed with emotion and pathos!
When the masterpiece composed? Exellence!!!
in 1992
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts like a scare crow being blown around by the wind. I expect to see hay coming out of him soon.
A une première écoute il y a trop de choses dans ce concerto. Décousu, beaucoup de belles choses et grande orchestration, mais on aimerait plus de construction, comme s il y avait trop d'idées mises toutes à la suiute l'une de l'autre.
It sounds like walking through a foggy haze, waiting to be eaten by a rabid pack of water wolves
DJ Found Dead You should write concert programmes.
You took the words right out of my mouth!
very passionate and sincere performance of a piece i'm not sure about
I believe it's Lutoslawski's Symphony No. 4.
@@darrylschultz6479 HA
Almost all films music composers influenced or copied from Lutoslawski. For exam. Alien 1 music.
amazing performance !!!
Nasz fenomenalny eksportowy kompozytor :-)
Wonderful, (has got its very own language.)
Great composer, great conductor, great orchestra!
I PREFER "TICKET TO RIDE" BY THE BEATLES.
Yea who doesn't right? But this comes a close 2nd!
So much more free than the Sony recording. Fantastic!
14:53 Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Fifth movement :)
I hear the cords and sounds of Bartoks piece from start.
@paul best We're so impressed.
WOW!
Polska przejmuje te internety!
wonderful performance
9p
Il est étrange Salonen; mais c'est un très grand chef:
Absolutely powerful music !
what a wonderful symphony, I am impressed
Only a very special human being could've composed music that can encompass every possible human emotion and more
So-110% of the human emotions then?
I'm so happy to have found Witold ~
Beutiful composition and great conductor !
Thanks
Did you put an advertisement in the middle of the symphony or it was TH-cam with their new rules?
I am afraid that is part of the new rules implemented by YT
@@justingeplaveid7690 what a pity
Yes, that is my favourite piece of music - my Desert Island record.
Nah-just stay home and listen to it, much more comfortable.
Meh, it's no Legendary Stardust Cowboy, that's for sure.
Except that one bit near the end where the trumpets go YAYAYA WHOO WAOWAOW YEEE-HIPP-SHAAAA ALALALALAAAAAA!
Love that transition at 3:40.
awesome, thanks! :)
didn't recognize it
Magnificent
Great composition and great conductor !
A lot of thanks
gian paolo Puglisi
Danke! Ein sehr spannendes Werk.
♫******♫
21:59
this symphony makes no sense to me!
Okay.
Then you must listen again.. multiple times.... If the first 7 or 8 minutes of the great work do not make sense to you, I simply can't imagine what you think you're hearing in works of the earlier traditional repertoire.
That's because it's crap and not actually a symphony.
Paradoxically that means you're getting it!🤪👌
Great ! (Btw , the clarinet-
dude is a spitting-
image of (a young) swedish author (and clarinet player) Jaques Werup.)
It's just the curly hair... the clarinetist here looks way better
0:21 is a good place to start. (And 22:14 is a good place to stop.)
nice