Laks reviews
Laks: String Quartets Nos 3-5 (arr. orchestra)
Two performances of Laks's string quartets performed by the Messages Quartet and ARC Ensemble
Following a well-trodden path from Warsaw to Paris, Szymon Laks (1901-83) went west in 1926 to become one of the pioneers of the Young Polish Musicians Association in the French capital. Earlier, he had spent two years studying mathematics in Vilnius before returning to the conservatoire in Warsaw, the city of his birth, but most of his career would be spent in France, where he developed a neo-Classical style in keeping with Parisian taste.
Two performances of Laks's string quartets performed by the ARC Ensemble and Messages Quartet
Following a well-trodden path from Warsaw to Paris, Szymon Laks (1901-83) went west in 1926 to become one of the pioneers of the Young Polish Musicians Association in the French capital. Earlier, he had spent two years studying mathematics in Vilnius before returning to the conservatoire in Warsaw, the city of his birth, but most of his career would be spent in France, where he developed a neo-Classical style in keeping with Parisian taste.