An enjoyable program mixing pieces by three Polish modernist composers - Witold Lutoslawski, "Overture for Strings" (1947), Krzysztof Penderecki, a short piece in Baroque style (1964) and "String Quartet No 1" (1960) and Karol Szymanowski, "String Quarter No 2" (1927) - with compositions by three contemporary composers in Bryce Dessner ("Reponse Lutoslawski"), Sufjan Stevens ("Suite from Run Rabbit Run", by way of arrangement by Michael Atkinson) and Jonny Greenwood ("Suite from There Will Be Blood" - the only ones I'd heard before). My favourites were Dessner's and the sprightly Sufjan translations, but all were - in some ways surprisingly - enjoyable.
(w/ Hayley)
(w/ Hayley)
