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composer: Krzysztof Penderecki
text writer: Rainer Maria Rilke - Hermann Hesse - Achim von Arnim - Bertolt Brecht - Joseph von Eichendorff - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Heinrich Heine - Karl Kraus
new text version: Hans Bethge

für Soli (SMezBar), gemischten Chor und Orchester

nach Gedichten von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Achim von Arnim, Joseph von Eichendorff, Karl Kraus, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hans Bethge, Hermann Hesse und Bertolt Brecht
Erweiterte Fassung 2007

Commissioned work: Auftragswerk des Luxemburgischen Kultusministeriums zur Eröffnung des neuen Konzertsaales · Erweiterte Fassung: Commissioned by the Beijing Music Festival Arts Foundation for the 10th Anniversary of Beijing Music Festival
Premiere: June 26, 2005 Luxembourg, Salle de Concerts Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte (L) · Olga Pasichnyk, soprano; Agnieszka Rehlis, mezzo soprano; Wojciech Drabowicz, baritone · Conductor: Bramwell Tovey · Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg · EuropaChorAkademie · Choir director: Joshard Daus

October 24, 2007 Peking (CN) Beijing Music Festival 2007 · Olga Pasichnyk, soprano; Agnieszka Rehlis, mezzo-soprano; Vytautas Juozapaitis, baritone · Conductor: Krzysztof Penderecki · China Philharmonic Orchestra · EuropaChorAkademie · Choir director: Joshard Daus (world première of the expanded version)
Orchestra instrumentation: 3 (1. auch Bambusfl., 2. auch Altfl., 3. auch Picc.) · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 3 (1. und 2. auch in A, 3. auch in Es und Bassklar.) · 2 · Kfg. - 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Glsp. · Xyl. · Marimba · Röhrengl. · Kirchengl. · Trgl.-baum · Schellenbaum · Crot. · Beckenpaar · 4 hg. Beck. · 2 Tamt. · Schellentr. · Mil. Tr. · gr. Tr. m. Beck.) (4 Spieler) - Hfe. · Cel. - Str. - Im Saal: Basstrp.
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 55' 0''
Year of composition: 2004/2005, rev. 2007
Language: German
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Krzysztof Penderecki

A Child of Our Time

The form of this work is not so much based on the classical symphony, but is closer to a song cycle structure which has now grown to include 13 movements for choir and orchestra. The Romantic characteristics and form of the 8th Symphony are both reminiscent of Gustav Mahler’s choral symphonic works and his Lied von der Erde. Krzysztof Penderecki here extends and augments his expressive musical material, for example through cluster techniques and glissandi, possibilities which he has been systematically exploring since the 1950s. He has compiled the texts from poetry by Eichendorff, Rilke, Brecht, Kraus, Hesse, Goethe, Bethge and von Arnim on the theme of ’forests and trees’, which has long been close to his heart as demonstrated by his private arboretum near Luslavice (’my personal Ithaca’) containing over 1500 species of trees.

I Nachts (Joseph von Eichendorff) - II Ende des Herbstes (Rainer Maria Rilke) - III Der brennende Baum (Bertolt Brecht) - IV Bei einer Linde (Joseph von Eichendorff) - V Flieder (Karl Kraus) - VI Frühlingsnacht (Hermann Hesse) - VII Sag’ ich’s euch, geliebte Bäume? (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) - VIII Im Nebel (Hermann Hesse) - IX Der Blütengarten (Hans Bethge) - X Abschied (Joseph von Eichendorff) - XI Vergänglichkeit (Hermann Hesse) - XII Herbsttag (Rainer Maria Rilke) - XIII O grüner Baum des Lebens (Achim von Arnim)

Symphony No. 8 / Dies irae / Aus den Psalmen Davids (2008)

Krzysztof Penderecki

Michaela Kaune (soprano) · Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo soprano) · Anna Lubanska (mezzo-soprano) · Ryszard Minkiewicz (tenor) · Wojtek Drabowicz (baritone) · Jaroslaw Brek (bass-baritone) · Warsaw Philharmonic Choir · Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra · Antoni Wit (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570450
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