Krzysztof Penderecki's Viola Concerto was commissioned in 1983 by the government of Venezuela to mark the bicentenary of birth of Simon Bolivar, the South American hero of the struggle for ...

Krzysztof Penderecki's Concerto Grosso (2000) revisits concerto grosso, the Baroque practice of the orchestra being contrasted with a small group of instrumental soloists, the approach which gave rise ...

Penderecki`s ”Partita” (a sound-piece in the composer`s earlier manner that treats plucked instruments concertante-style) and Halffter`s ”Parafrasis” (a somewhat schizophrenic, modernist homage to ...

The latest album in Antoni Wit's comprehensive Penderecki series for Naxos brings together six of the composer's shorter orchestral works. They cover the entirety of his career, so if you play them in ...

There's a beguiling photo of Krzysztof Penderecki, who turns 80 today, inside the brochure of this week's Warsaw music festival that bears his name. It shows the lauded Polish composer standing in his ...

De Natura Sonoris II Krzysztof Penderecki, Conductor Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 'Resurrection' Beata Bilinska, Piano ...

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Penderecki’s First Violin Concerto was written in 1976-77, a time when compositional styles were becoming increasingly polarised between simplicity, whether retrospective or prospective, and ...

Krzysztof Penderecki composed “Polymorphia,” for 48 string instruments, in 1961. It pushes the strings’ sonic abilities to modernist limits: squeaks, wails, mutterings, and growls, an idiom of noise ...

Naxos’s valuable and ongoing Penderecki series here couples the Second Cello Concerto of 1982 and the Viola Concerto of 1983. Penderecki made his reputation in the late 1950s as a master of striking, ...