Penderecki; Krzysztof

Dark Strings

Robert Levine

Krzysztof Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima remains a startling work 52 years after it was composed. Its alarming pile-up of strings—52 separate players—is

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Penderecki: Violin concerto/Kabara SACD

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This is an absolutely magnificent disc. Penderecki’s First violin concerto is a grand work, evocative but not merely imitative of the Romantic concerto tradition. It

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Penderecki Collection on EMI Classics 9/10 C

ClassicsToday

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

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