Penderecki: Capriccio; De Natura Sonoris II; Piano Concerto [Special Edition]

If you didn't already know, you could still guess that two of the very different works on this disc were written by the same composer. The Capriccio from 1967 is an intensely expressive and grotesque parody of the grand violin concertos of the nineteenth and early twentieth century; the De Natura Sonoris from 1971 is a more self-consciously avant-garde work exploring the extreme ends of the orchestra. But both works are marked by the same abrupt, even violent approach to scoring that was the hallmark of Polish composer ... Read More

If you didn't already know, you could still guess that two of the very different works on this disc were written by the same composer. The Capriccio from 1967 is an intensely expressive and grotesque parody of the grand violin concertos of the nineteenth and early twentieth century; the De Natura Sonoris from 1971 is a more self-consciously avant-garde work exploring the extreme ends of the orchestra. But both works are marked by the same abrupt, even violent approach to scoring that was the hallmark of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, thereby giving the game away.However, if you didn't know Penderecki had had an aesthetic change of heart during his career, you might never guess that the Piano Concerto he called "Resurrection" was also his. With its powerful echoes of Bartók and Prokofiev in the solo writing and Bruckner and Mahler in the scoring, one might guess a much earlier and an infinitely more conservative composer. Only the occasional orchestral eruption remains of Penderecki's earlier... Read Less

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