Lutosławski: Chantefleurs et chantefables, Chain I, Preludes and Fugue & Five Songs

For his debut with the Virgin Classics label, Daniel Harding recorded ten albums in the 1990s and 2000s, he offered a varied and eclectic overview of Witold Lutosławski's work: from the five songs on poems by Iłłakowiczówna, steeped in serialism, to the little gems of instrumentation that are the Chantefleurs et chantefables, based on texts by the surrealist poet Robert Desnos. The latter form one of the composer's very last cycles and are performed by their creator, Solveig Kringelborn.