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 ...
Pretty gloomy stuff, these three works by Polish post-modernist composer Krzysztof Penderecki are also pretty small beer. Of course, Penderecki has always been gloomy -- any composer whose signature work is the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima of 1959 is going to tend toward the dark side. But since he stopped writing in the style of his the ...
If you didn't already know, you could still guess that two of the very different works on this disc were written by the same composer. The Capriccio from 1967 is an intensely expressive and grotesque parody of the grand violin concertos of the nineteenth and early twentieth century; the De Natura Sonoris from 1971 is a more self-consciously avant ...
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 ...
Kazimierz Kord led the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra in the world-premiere recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's Seventh Symphony in Vienna in 1999. Antoni Wit led the same orchestra in the first studio recording in Warsaw in 2003. Penderecki himself recorded the work in 2004 leading the Symphonic Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Krakow ...
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