彭德雷茨基:大提琴协奏曲

专辑介绍：composer’s all experiences, as the work of a mature master.

Cello Concerto may be regarded as having originated from the synthesis of the

enrich the narration and strengthen the expression. That is why the Second

because of their novelty, while here, having been toned down and discreet, they

Penderecki's works of long ago. There, exposed and skocking, they irritated

notice, on each page of the score, tone ideas whose origin goes back to

agressive opponent.At the same time we can

soloist’s partner in the development of musical thought and not as

for all the big forces, is very clear, the orchestra being treated as the

does not notice it, even in the numerous solo sections. The orchestral part,

its virtuosity is not of a showy type, it serves musical expression and one

passionate or reflective. At the same time this is a virtuoso concerto, though

based on strings of semitones and tritones, full of a suggestive expression,

way, in his successive works the same melody or its various manifestations,

has been becoming in his pieces increasingly important. It seems to be, by the

singing instrument, but becasue, since the Paradise Lost the melodic quality

the last fifty years. And he does so not because the cello is a particularly

Penderecki returns here to melody which has left music almost entirely during

dark colours, composed in a mood of virile gravity reminiscent of Brahms.

and researches. We find the same style in his Second Cello Concerto, a piece of

with his own sonorities those he has arrived at during the years of experiments

Penderecki looks in them back to the neo-romantic tradition but shapes it up

works, particularly in the Violin Concerto, Second Symphony and Te Deum.

expression for it, he worked out a new s tyle which can be seen in his next

1978.While dealing with that great subject and seeking a proper musical

the composer worked on his monumental stage work Paradise Lost, completed in

provocative sonorities.An important stage in that evolution were the years when

it has much evolved losing its striking features of experimentation and of

surprise as Penderecki's music had used to be in the 60 ies. Indeed since then

the „Warsaw Autumn” festival. The Concerto was received neither with shock nor

Moscow and Leningrad and then played it at

public of

later the distinguished cellist, Ivan Monighetti, presented the piece to the

the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra under the composer himself. Three months

1982.Its first performers were, on January 11,1983, Mscislav Rostropovich and

The Second Cello Concerto was written in

Antoni Wit conducto

Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra

Iwan Monighetti cello

The Second Cello Concerto

Krzysztof Penderecki