Penderecki Orchestral Works Vol1
Classical | Easy CD-DA | APE tracks, No CUE, No Log | 1 CD, Cover LQ
298 Mb | Date CD: February 22, 2000 | NAXOS
| It is a trite assumption that by association with Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish identity, a performance of his work by a Polish conductor and orchestra suggests itself to be naturally definitive. In this case however, it may be true. As a former student of Penderecki's, Antoni Wit brings authoritative insight to his direction of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra on this three volume set of Penderecki's orchestral works. The pieces are not presented chronologically. Instead, each disc pairs earlier and later works, which provides a good comparison of the composer's earliest groundbreaking work to his later neo-romantic symphonies. |
Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki
Conductor: Antoni Wit
Orchestra/Ensemble: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice
Tracks
1. Symphony No. 3: Andante con noto 3:34
2. Symphony No. 3: Allegro con brio 10:27
3. Symphony No. 3: Adagio 12:43
4. Symphony No. 3: Passacaglia - Allegro moderato 6:46
5. Symphony No. 3: Vivace 10:58
6. Threnody To the Victims of Hiroshima: Tren (Threnody), "To the Victims of Hiroshima" 9:00
7. Fluorescences 14:55
8. De natura sonoris No. 2: De natura sonoris II 8:58
Penderecki Orchestral Works Vol2
Classical | Easy CD-DA | APE tracks, No CUE, No Log | 1 CD, Cover LQ
304 Mb | Date CD: February 22, 2000 | NAXOS Volume two of Naxos's Cycle of Krzysztof Penderecki's orchestral works continues a successful series of recordings by Antoni Wit and the NPRSO (Katowice) with two massive symphony's, No. 5 and No.1, in that order.
Encountering one of Penderecki's symphonies for the fist time, having known his unabashedly modernist St. Luke Passion and such orchestral works as Polymorphia, I was very surprised by Symphony No. 5. It is largely conventional in language, having episodes that remind me of any number of modern symphonists, from Simpson to Honneger. Once, about nine minutes in, a vividly painted image seems to recall a Sibelian frozen vista and then it shades into a Wagnerian forest scene. Far from an exercise in derivation, however, there is a very individual personality at work here. All of the directness of purpose and clarity of expression that I value in Penderecki's early music is present in this 1992 score. It is a powerful, dramatic and substantive work. |
Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki Conductor: Antoni Wit Orchestra/Ensemble: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice Tracks
1 Symphony No.5
Symphony No.1
2 Part 1a: Arche I 3 Part 1b: Dynamis I 4 Part 2a: Dynamis II 5 Part 2b: Arche II |
