Текст песни Витольд Лютославский - Вариации на тему Паганини

Vitold Lutoslavsky

Variations on Paganini themes - version for two pianos was written in 1941, this version for piano and orchestra - in 1978.

Bernd Glemser, piano
Polish National Radio SO, Antoni Wit

Vitold Lutosławski (Polish: Witold Lutosławski, January 25, 1913, Warsaw, Russian Empire - February 7, 1994, Warsaw, Poland) is a great Polish composer and conductor, one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. He composed music from the age of nine (Prelude for Piano, 1921), learned to play the violin and piano. He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1937, while studying mathematics as a student at the University of Warsaw (1931-1933). After the UNESCO Prize (1959) and the performance of the String Quartet in Stockholm (1965), international recognition comes to the composer.