There's a beguiling photo of Krzysztof Penderecki, who turns 80 today, inside the brochure of this week's Warsaw music festival that bears his name. It shows the lauded Polish composer standing in his ...

More and more young people have been coming to the Warsaw Autumn Festival concerts in recent years, and indeed they have accounted for a large, if not the prevailing, percentage of the audience. They ...

De Natura Sonoris II Krzysztof Penderecki, Conductor Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 'Resurrection' Beata Bilinska, Piano ...

Roxanna Panufnik: Tallinn Mass - Dance of Life Patricia Rozario, Jaak Johanson, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra/Mihhail Gerts (Warner) Penderecki: Piano Concerto (revised version of 2007) Florian Uhlig ...

Penderecki’s classical and baroque stylisations were enriched with twisted electronics and wild interludes on the drums. Most often we think of his monumental orchestral works, but Krzysztof ...

From Kubrick to Aphex Twin, Lynch to Radiohead, the Polish composer’s otherworldly sounds have inspired musicians and soundtracked some of cinema’s most haunting moments When I unearthed a score of ...

Partita Maksim Štšura, Piano Witold Lutosławski, Composer Michael Foyle, Violin Recitativo e Arioso Witold Lutosławski, Composer Michael Foyle, Violin Subito Maksim Štšura, Piano Witold Lutosławski, ...

Following its stunning interpretation of the music of Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert on Seifert (Zbigniew Seifert Foundation, 2017), Atom String Quartet turns its attention to the oeuvre of ...

Heard together, the differences between Penderecki’s First and Fourth quartets map an epic journey in 20th-century music Krzysztof Penderecki’s four numbered string quartets do not trace the course of ...