This double album from the label marks not only the 100th anniversary of 's birth but also the first release of the 's new conductor (as of 2023), . and this ensemble, founded in the 1970s by , have had a relationship of long standing, and this release by no means supersedes those with and others at the helm. However, the double album offers a fresh group of 's concertos and chamber music, with tight, cohesive performances throughout. The most prominent feature of the program is that it gives equal weight to all the periods of 's career rather than prioritizing the high modernist music of the '60s and '70s. Such famous works as (1968) are missing, but more than making up for this is the presence of early works such as the delightful Cinq pièces pour piano à quatre mains ("Five Pieces for piano four-hands"), trenchant miniatures written between 1942 and 1950. recruits superb, committed concerto soloists who deliver intense performances: violinist and pianist (who also performs the of 1947). Violist holds the listener's attention in the complex (" ") of 1994. More of the music is light than not, and it never drags, with clear sound from the Cité de la Musique in Paris and an informative interview-format booklet note for physical album buyers. A welcome addition to shelves or hard drive partitions. ~ James Manheim