About this title: 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 Threnody, Penderecki's searing atonality and "sheets of sound scoring have settled into stodgy chromaticism and stolid string writing. For diehard fans of post-Modernism, it's as if Boulez had reverted to Debussy or Stockhausen reverted to Brahms. ...
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