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The “Romanian Folk Dances” are by turns impishly ebullient and wistfully nostalgic, while it's possible to discern, especially in the Adagio section of the “Divertimento”, the blend of dark calm and bleak passion echoed in Lutoslawski's “Musique Funèbre”, which tacks between wintry orchestral tritones and stalking solo bass. With its shrillness and dissonances, it's clearly an impassioned lament, rather than an elegy.
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