Witold Lutoslawski
Paroles Tissees / Four Ronsard Sonnets / Tentacles Of The Dark Nebula (LP)
Three compositions for tenor and orchestra performed by Peter Pears and the London Sinfonietta conducted by the respective composers, released on Decca's "Headline" contemporary music series in 1974. With insert.
Fragments From A Show (LP)
Contemporary brass music by five composers performed by The Brass Ring, released by Crystal Records in 1986.
Kurtág, Lutoslawski, Gubaidulina
1994 release ** "The Arditti Quartet here performs all three of Kurtag's string quartets, along with Lutoslawski's one quartet, and Gubaidulina's second as well -- the recordings are from 1990. Kurtag's quartets are some of the finest of the 20th century, clearly fusing Webern and Bartok. What distinguishes Arditti's Kurtag from the Keller Quartet on ECM? (see my review). The AQ takes the tempos slightly faster. Not too fast, in fact I'd say if anything the KQ has slowed them down for dramatic e…