Witold Lutoslawski: Complete Piano Works Corinna Simon

• Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994): Bukoliki (Shepherd Songs) (1952):
• 1Lutosławski: Bukoliki: I. Allegro Vivace01:12
• 2Lutosławski: Bukoliki: II. Allegro sostenuto00:58
• 3Lutosławski: Bukoliki: III. Allegro molto00:45
• 4Lutosławski: Bukoliki: IV. Andantino01:51
• 5Lutosławski: Bukoliki: V. Allegro marciale01:23
• 2 Etiudy na fortepian (Two Studies for Piano) (1941):
• 6Lutosławski: 2 Studies for Piano: No. 1, Allegro02:30
• 7Lutosławski: 2 Studies for Piano: No. 2, Non troppo allegro03:14
• Melodie Ludowe (Folk Melodies) (1945):
• 8Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 1, Ach, mój Jasieńko00:40
• 9Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 2, Hej, od Krakowa jadę00:49
• 10Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 3, Jest drożyna, jest00:53
• 11Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 4, Pastereczka00:52
• 12Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 5, Na jabłoni jabłko wisi00:36
• 13Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 6, Od Sieradza płynie rzeka01:42
• 14Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 7, Panie Michale01:36
• 15Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 8, W polu lipeńka01:04
• 16Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 9, Zalotny00:58
• 17Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 10, Gaik00:37
• 18Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 11, Gąsior01:07
• 19Lutosławski: Melodie Ludowe: No. 12, Rektor01:11
• 3 Utwory dla młodziez·y (Pieces for the Young) (1953):
• 20Lutosławski: 3 Pieces for the Young: No. 1, Czteropalcówka01:07
• 21Lutosławski: 3 Pieces for the Young: No. 2, Melodia02:40
• 22Lutosławski: 3 Pieces for the Young: No. 3, Marsz01:33
• Inwencja:
• 23Lutosławski: Inwencja01:01
• Zasłyszana melodyjka:
• 24Lutosławski: Zasłyszana melodyjka02:15
• Sonata for Piano (1934):
• 25Lutosławski: Piano Sonata: I. Allegro11:26
• 26Lutosławski: Piano Sonata: II. Adagio ma non troppo08:45
• 27Lutosławski: Piano Sonata: III. Andante09:54
• Total Runtime01:02:39

Info for Witold Lutoslawski: Complete Piano Works

Among all the solo piano works Lutoslawski must have composed up to the end of World War II, only the Sonata (1934) and the Two Etudes (1940/41) are still preserved today.

Lutoslawski was an excellent pianist, but after the war he only wrote a very small number of pieces for the instrument. They all pertain to his early post-war period, before he turned to twelve-tone pitch organization and aleatory technique.

What most impresses and thrills me in Lutoslawski’s piano output is his immense degree of creativity while heeding every detail with painstaking attention; his wonderful way of associating traditional forms with innovative, bold sonorities and structures, while managing to preserve a great degree of independence that makes this music sound effortless and lively.

Whereas Lutoslawski’s earliest compositions – the Sonata and the Two Etudes – are brimming with technical challenges for the pianist, the next pieces he wrote are cycles of brief miniatures in which he explores each note and each rest to attain a maximum degree of expression. (Excerpt from the liner notes by the soloist Corinna Simon)

Corinna Simon, piano

Corinna Simon
was born in Berlin. At the age of five she had her first piano lessons. At the age of twelve she was accepted at the Julius Stern Institute, the renowned conservatory in Berlin.

From 1978 she studied piano under Professor Ingeborg Wunder at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and after that under Professor Ludwig Hoffmann at the Musikhochschule München. During this time she took part in master classes given by György Sebok, Maria Curcio, Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Malcolm Frager and Karlheinz Kämmerling.

In 1984 she had her debut as a soloist in the Berlin Philharmonie. Since then she has had a very succesful career as a pianist in solo works and chamber music. Various engagements have lead her to the major music metropoles of Europe, like Vienna, Paris, Stockholm, Oslo, Brussels, and to the 'Lucerne Festival'. She has also performed in the USA and Asia, among them in Moskau, Washington, New York and San Francisco, Jakarta and Brunei.

Moreover, she has had the privilege of performing at officiel ceremonies to honour the following personalities - the former president of the Federal Republic of Germany Roman Herzog, the former UN-representative Mohammed el-Baradei, His Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, the former foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Prof. Dr. Dennis Meadows, the co-founder of 'Club of Rome', among others.

She has worked with well-known conductors like Jakov Kreizberg, Walter Weller, Christóbal Halffter, Marc Piollet, Lior Shambadal and Lukas Karytinos.

As a chamber musician Ms. Simon has given concerts with several famous personalities, for example the cellist Alban Gerhardt, the violinist Rainer Kimstedt and the singer Peter Maus.

She has been extremely successful performing and recording piano rarities in recent years. In connection with the twentieths anniversary of the reunification of Germany in 2010, she gave numerous concerts featuring solo works by contemporary composers like Hans Werner Henze, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Friedrich Goldmann in several European countries and in the USA.

2011 saw the release of her CD of piano works by the Russian composer Reinhold Moritzewich Glière, which received outstanding reviews from the international press.

For Deutschlandradio Kultur in 2012, she recorded piano works by Jean Francaix, some of which had never been recorded before.

Corinna Simon has been teaching an advanced class of talented young pianists in Berlin for over 20 years.

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