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Antoni Wit and his Polish forces are incomparable in this repertoire, and this performance of Utrenja goes straight to the top of the heap. Scored
A saxophone quartet? Nothing but four saxophones for an entire hour? That’s the premise of “Europe”–and with these players at the helm it’s quite an
Penderecki deserves a great deal of credit for turning his back on the avant-garde of the 1960s and ’70s, recognizing much of it for the
Penderecki’s gripping St. Luke Passion (1966) takes the Passions of Bach as its models, refashioning them in an unrelentingly modernist 20th-century language. The boldly original
Antoni Wit’s ongoing cycle of Penderecki orchestral works is yet another of those truly outstanding Naxos projects that’s unlikely to get the attention it deserves.
This disc offers an intelligently chosen overview of Penderecki’s non-vocal work, from the avant-garde screeching and atmospheric effects of the famous Threnody and Anaklasis, to
Penderecki composed his first violin sonata at age 20, a work in three compact movements lasting seven and a half minutes and strongly influenced by
The list of Krzysztof Penderecki’s sacred music is not so much long as it is formidable. Some have deemed him the greatest composer of sacred
For listeners enamored of the icy-cold string scrapes and screeches of Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, this double-disc set devoted to his orchestral
It’s remarkable how completely the twenty-something British violin virtuoso Daniel Hope enters into the often tortured world of eastern European composers. The centerpiece of this
