In the end, the result is there: Salonen is like a fish in water with yet sometimes austere music and always complex of one of the greatest names in music of the twentieth century and his orchestra of Los Angeles (up his recent arrival in London) follows him like one man. Compared to interpretations under the baton of Lutoslawski himself, there is at least two evidences. First, the sumptuousness of the orchestra by taking a magnified his extraordinary like Sony can. Then the capacity of the Finnish leader in finding nuances, tempi to play and give overall coherence to these four pages symphonic yet so different in style and general tone.
Here is a superb double CD to obtain closed eyes to discover these major pages of the past century.