There is a certain type of concert programme that many listeners are notparticularly fond of: two large scale works related in time, similar inform but with a slight difference; a sort of “mi-parti”. Not that differentto be interesting in terms of variety, not similar enough to behomogenous in terms of form.(...) There are however conductors partialto this type of programming – and what is more interesting, are capableof achieving success with it. One such example is recorded on this CD.It was decided that Stanislaw.Skrowaczewski would conduct a concert structured in a sort of “mi-parti” form: two adjacent works by Lutoslawski, from the 1940s and 1950s respectively, both multi-movement pieces, beginning with a first completed attempt at large-scale cyclic form (in addition to an unfinished Requiem from hisstudent days), followed after an entr’acte by a summation of what we loosely term “neoclassicism” and “folklorism”.