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Journal Archives for Krzysztof Penderecki

  • Krzysztof Penderecki & Jonny Greenwood album [cover]
    Thursday, March 22, 2012
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    Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Album to Be Performed Live in Concert at London's Barbican Hall

    The new album featuring works by Krzysztof Penderecki and those they inspired by Jonny Greenwood itself stemmed from a concert in Poland last fall that paired the composers' works. Tonight, the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, which performed in the original concert and on the album, will perform the album's music at London's Barbican Hall. "Penderecki's Threnody still has the power to shock," says The Observer, "while Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver is already a modern classic." Consequence of Sound gives the new album four stars, calling it "one of the most ambitious albums of the year so far"; Greenwood's pieces "fit exquisitely next to the old master’s."

  • Krzysztof Penderecki & Jonny Greenwood album [cover]
    Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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    Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Collaboration Out Now; "Carries a Powerful Impact," Says MusicOMH

    The new album featuring works by Krzysztof Penderecki paired with those they inspired by Jonny Greenwood is out now. MusicOMH says: "The four pieces here make an album that carries a powerful impact, as well as recognising the obvious talents of both composers in writing for the string orchestra." The music will be performed at London's Barbican Hall on March 22 by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, the artists on the recording, with Penderecki conducting his pieces and Marek Moś conducting Greenwood's, as on the album.

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    Friday, March 9, 2012
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    Jonny Greenwood Featured in New York Times Magazine, Tracing His Composing Roots to Penderecki and Radiohead

    The new album pairing works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki with the works they inspired by Jonny Greenwood is due out next week. Greenwood is the subject of an extensive feature article in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine that traces the roots of his compositions to his appreciation for Penderecki's music, through his own film scores and to the ever-evolving sounds of Radiohead. "Greenwood cites an early-’90s concert of Penderecki’s music as a conversion experience," says the Times; "he’s obsessed with Penderecki the way a lot of people are obsessed with Radiohead."

  • Krzysztof Penderecki & Jonny Greenwood album [cover]
    Monday, March 5, 2012
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    Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Album Streaming As NPR First Listen: "Artistic Visionaries Connected in a Real Dialogue"

    The new album pairing works by Krzysztof Penderecki and the works they inspired by Jonny Greenwood is due out next week and is streaming in full all this week as an NPR First Listen. "The results are ear-tingling," says NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas. "What we hear on this album is a meeting of two artistic visionaries connected in a real dialogue, the decades separating their work and their chronological ages all but collapsed and deflated."

  • Krzysztof Penderecki & Jonny Greenwood album [cover]
    Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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    Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Album Featured on NPR's "All Songs Considered"; Composers Talk to The Guardian

    The new album pairing works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and the works they inspired by composer/guitarist Jonny Greenwood, due out on March 13, is featured on NPR's All Songs Considered. Producer Robin Hilton exclaims of Greenwood's 48 Responses to Polymporphia: "You hear that, and I think: everything created by a synthesizer is just so irrelevant and boring now. You hear something that real and organic and knowing that it could be performed live with these string instruments, I mean, that's amazing to me." The Guardian's Tom Service spoke with both composers about the project and says of that piece: "48 Responses isn't just a good piece for a composer who is more used to the studio, it is a dazzlingly imaginative, gripping and novel work, full stop."

  • Krzysztof Penderecki & Jonny Greenwood album [cover]
    Friday, January 20, 2012
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    Nonesuch to Release Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Collaboration March 13; Pre-Order Now

    Nonesuch Records releases an album of works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and composer/Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood on March 13, 2012. The album is now available to pre-order in the Nonesuch Store. The music on the album—Penderecki's Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia (for 48 strings) and Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver and 48 Responses to Polymorphia—was presented in two concerts in Wrocław last fall and will be performed at London's Barbican Hall on March 22, featuring the artists on the recording.