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Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Collaboration Out Now; "Carries a Powerful Impact," Says MusicOMH
2, Mar 13, 2012
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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Jonny Greenwood Featured in New York Times Magazine, Tracing His Composing Roots to Penderecki and Radiohead
5, Mar 09, 2012
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 Streaming As NPR First Listen: "Artistic Visionaries Connected in a Real Dialogue"
1, Mar 05, 2012
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 Featured on NPR's "All Songs Considered"; Composers Talk to The Guardian
3, Feb 29, 2012
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."
Nonesuch to Release Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Collaboration March 13; Pre-Order Now
5, Jan 20, 2012
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.
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"Norwegian Wood" Opens in US Theaters; Soundtrack Featuring Jonny Greenwood Score Available on Nonesuch Records
5, Jan 06, 2012
Norwegian Wood, director Tran Anh Hung’s film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel, featuring a "hypnotic" (Wired) score by guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood, makes its US theatrical debut today, with showings in New York City and Washington, DC. Additional openings for the film, starring Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, and Kiko Mizuhara, are scheduled in the coming weeks in Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and more. The soundtrack is out now on Nonesuch Records. Watch the film trailer here.
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Enter to Win Tickets to "Norwegian Wood" Screening at NYC's Japan Society Plus Jonny Greenwood's Soundtrack
3, Dec 07, 2011
Director Tran Anh Hung’s film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, featuring a score by Jonny Greenwood, will be released in the US in January. There will be a special early screening at the Japan Society next Wednesday, December 14, along with a Q&A with the director and actress Rinko Kikuchi. Nonesuch is giving away tickets to the event along with signed film posters and copies of the film's soundtrack. Enter to win by Friday, December 9, at 3 PM ET.
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"Norwegian Wood" to Open in US January 6; Jonny Greenwood’s Soundtrack Available Now on Nonesuch Records
2, Nov 15, 2011
Nonesuch released guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood’s instrumental score to director Tran Anh Hung’s film Norwegian Wood earlier this year. An adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel, the film was released in the UK in the spring of 2011 and will be released in the US beginning January 6, 2012. The Mail on Sunday said: “Jonny Greenwood wrote the film’s majestic music which features classical strings and modern experimental sounds that brilliantly enhance the emotional turmoil of young love and the stunning natural landscapes.” Pick up the soundtrack here.
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Jonny Greenwood's "smear" to Receive US Premiere at New York's SONiC Festival
1, Oct 17, 2011
Jonny Greenwood’s smear receives its US premiere in a performance by the Either/Or ensemble, conducted by Richard Carrick, at Columbia University's Miller Theatre in New York City, tonight as part of the nine-day SONiC Festival. smear was Greenwood's first concert work and included as part of his score for the film There Will Be Blood. Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver, which was also incorporated into the film score, is among the pieces on the forthcoming Nonesuch album of works by Greenwood and Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, due out next year.
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Nonesuch to Release Collaboration Between Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood in 2012
2, Oct 04, 2011
Nonesuch Records will release an album of works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and composer/Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood in 2012. The artists’ work was presented side-by-side in two mid-September concerts in Wrocław, which included Penderecki's Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia (for 48 strings); the latter inspired the Greenwood piece on the program, 48 Responses to Polymorphia. The works were then recorded for the Nonesuch album in Kraków, along with Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver, which was inspired by Penderecki’s Threnody.