Los Angeles Philharmonic - Lutoslawski Centenary: Salonen Conducts Beethoven November 30, 2012

As a cabaret pianist on the run from the Nazis in occupied Warsaw and then a staunchly independent composer denounced by Communist party apparatchiks, Witold Lutoslawski survived some of the 20th-century's grimmest years, and his cultural importance seems only to have grown since his death. Lutoslawski became a close artistic associate of the LA Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen in the last decade of his life, and his First Symphony will be recorded at these concerts to complete a Salonen/LA Phil cycle of the composer's four symphonies for Sony Classical.