This week, Music Matters brings you three wonderful song cycles by modernist composers inspired by folk poetry and literature.

Works:

Five Songs, by Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
Performers: Paulina Swierczek, soprano, and Wei-Han Wu, piano

Six Turkish Folk Poems, by Theo Loevendie (b. 1930)
Performers: Rosemary Hardy, soprano, with Nieuw Ensemble, conducted by Ed Spanjaard

Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (With Pipes, Drums, and Fiddles), by György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Performers: Katalin Károlyi, mezzo-soprano, and the Amadinda Percussion Group

Image: "Making Music" by Bernard Karfiol (1886-1952)