Not quite Penderecki's greatest hits, this two-disc collection of the postwar Polish composer's orchestral works will give curious listeners unfamiliar with the composer a taste of what his music is like. Compiling 12 works composed over 15 years starting with the shattering Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima from 1959 and ending with the ...
This two-disc EMI set of the music of Krzysztof Penderecki features five works. The Kanon for strings and tape is from the Polish post-modernist's early enfant terrible period while the other four -- the choral-orchestral Te Deum, Lacrimosa Magnificat, and the purely orchestral "Christmas" Symphony -- are from his later established master period ...
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