Orchestral Works Vol. 1
by Krzysztof Penderecki / Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia w Katowicach / Antoni Wit
- Type: Album
- Released: December 1999
- Label: Naxos
- Country: Poland
- Length: 1:02:52
- Community rating: 4.21/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Highlighting the composer's groundbreaking early avant-garde period, this volume features intensely chilling, texture-based pieces that deeply defined the Polish Sonorism movement. The masterful performances conducted by Antoni Wit vividly bring to life the terrifying, apocalyptic dissonance that made Penderecki's work heavily sought after by horror film directors.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, technical, orchestral, dissonant, scary, experimental, atonal, symphonic, long-form, strings
Tracklist
Credits
- Krzysztof Penderecki - primary artist, composed by
- Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia W Katowicach - primary artist, orchestra
- Antoni Wit - primary artist, conductor
- Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski - liner notes
- Jan Rybicki - liner notes [translation & adaptation, english]
- Richard Whitehouse - liner notes [translation & adaptation, english]
- Jeremy Drake - liner notes [translation, french]
- Rafael Su帽茅n - liner notes [translation, spanish]
- Stasys Eidrigevi膷ius - painting [cover painting: kerala]
- Beata Jankowska - producer, engineer