As one of the leading lights of the avant-garde in the middle of the 20th century, Krzysztof Penderecki became famous for his uncompromising experimental music, most of all for his wrenching Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960). Three of the works on this 2012 Naxos release by Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra date to his early period: Anaklasis, for string orchestra (1960), Fonogrammi, for flute and chamber orchestra (1961), and De natura sonoris I for orchestra (1966). Unusual orchestral sonorities, ...
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As one of the leading lights of the avant-garde in the middle of the 20th century, Krzysztof Penderecki became famous for his uncompromising experimental music, most of all for his wrenching Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960). Three of the works on this 2012 Naxos release by Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra date to his early period: Anaklasis, for string orchestra (1960), Fonogrammi, for flute and chamber orchestra (1961), and De natura sonoris I for orchestra (1966). Unusual orchestral sonorities, sharp bursts in high registers, rumbling drones, and cluster-chord textures dominate these pieces. Though some of Penderecki's compositional strategies changed in the Partita, for harpsichord, electric guitar, bass guitar, harp, double bass, and orchestra (1971, revised 1991) and The Awakening of Jacob (1974), these transitional works still emphasize the severe and often abrasive sounds for which he became known. This is why the tonal and much more conventional Horn Concerto,...
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