Witold Lutosławski wrote his Symphony No. 3 in 1973-1983. The work was given its world premiere by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, on 29th of September, 1983. This work was selected for the first Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1985.
The Symphony calls for a large orchestra, consisting of:
Many passages in the Symphony no. 3 employ Lutoslawski's by–then well developed technique which he called "limited alea...
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Witold Lutosławski wrote his Symphony No. 3 in 1973-1983. The work was given its world premiere by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, on 29th of September, 1983. This work was selected for the first Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1985.
The Symphony calls for a large orchestra, consisting of:
Many passages in the Symphony no. 3 employ Lutoslawski's by–then well developed technique which he called "limited aleatorism", in which the individual players in the orchestra are each asked to play their phrase or repeated fragment in their own time — rhythmically independent from the other musicians. During these passages very little synchronisation is specified: events that are coordinated include the simultaneous entrances of groups of instruments, the abrupt end of some episodes, and some transitions to new sections. By this method the composer retains control of the symphony's architecture and the realisation of the performance, while simultaneously...
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