The most notable feature of Penderecki's Symphony No. 7, "Seven Gates of Jerusalem," is that it sounds more like an oratorio than a symphony; in fact, one movement is set for a cappella chorus. It is not surprising, then, to discover that Penderecki wrote the piece in 1996 as an oratorio in celebration of Jerusalem's third millennium and didn't ...
The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
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 ...
Naxos continues its exploration into the major repertoire of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki with his Polish Requiem, which has an interesting background in that its various sections were assembled over time, much in the manner of Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor. Although the "Sanctus" wasn't added until 1993, most of the individual ...
Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion (Passio et mors Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam) is considered by many to be a landmark work in the history of twentieth century. One would not know that from the degree to which the work has been recorded; since its 1965 premiere, the St. Luke Passion has only been recorded in its entirety three ...
When Krzysztof Penderecki famously adopted tonality around 1980, composers everywhere noted that the tide had turned against the avant-garde. Penderecki's apparent volte face was viewed by some as a necessary change for the betterment of contemporary music, and by others as a betrayal of modernist principles. While debate may continue over the ...
An homage to the venerable Russian cellist, conductor, and humanitarian Mstislav Rostropovich could easily occupy several dozen CDs, countless DVDs, or a small library of books. His career was one of the most distinguished in the history of classical music, having premiered more than 150 new works for the cello -- more than any other cellist in ...
Try this disc when you're driving in your car. You will get to work energized, perhaps even early. The Deutsches Streichtrio plays the String Trio with taut energy laced with threat and dashed with melancholy. They remind me of the way the Emerson String Quartet plays Bartok. When they tire of hurling chromatic bolts of demi-melody, they lead you ...
This 2004 survey of modern settings of the medieval sequence Stabat Mater Dolorosa is part of conductor Marcello Viotti's project to record the little-known but worthy sacred works of the twentieth century, in conjunction with the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Chorus for their concert series Paradisi gloria. The four works by ...
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