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"... a further triumph in a series that looks like it’s becoming the finest overview yet of the work one of the late 20th century’s most significant composers ..." - Fanfare "... if you fancy treating your mind to some seriously stimulating sounds this is a splendid journey on which to embark." - MusicWeb International "Four Stars ... (the Little Suite's) bracing colours receive a performance of fresh vitality here ... highly compelling ... the Cello Concerto receives a superbly concentrated performance here from soloist Paul Watkins ..." - BBC Music Magazine "... playing of real immediacy and finesse from a BBC Symphony that sounds as fully engaged in the lighter aspect of the composer’s music as in its more searching utterances. Thanks in part to the spacious and wide-ranging sound, these accounts are now the preferred options ..." - International Record Review This fourth volume in a series devoted to the music of the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski features cellist Paul Watkins, Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, described by Gramophone as a "veritable dream team." The highly dramatic Cello Concerto, starring Watkins, remains one of the most original works of recent times. In the large-scale orchestral work the Second Symphony, Lutosławski creates an atmosphere of tense anticipation in the opening stages, before drawing the listener into the ensuing, more purposefully developed music, which reaches a climactic explosion and resolution.