IN MEMORY: Penderecki Violin Concerto No.2 'Metamorphosen' K. Penderecki(con.) and Juyoung Baek(violin).; Agnus Dei; Dimensions of Time and Silence.

K. Penderecki(con.) and Juyoung Baek(violin) perform Penderecki Violin Concerto No.2 'metamorphosen' with Korean Chamber Orchestra at Concert hall, Seoul Art Center, 18th December, 2013 under Seoul International Music Festival.

Henryk WOJNAROWSKI - dyrygent/conductor Chór Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie Warsaw Philharmonic Choir koncert zarejestrowano 1 kwietnia 2016 w sali koncertowej Filharmonii Narodowej recorded at Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, April 01, 2016 Realizacja Telewizja Polska S.A.

In memory of Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020), who is arguably the best Polish composer after Chopin. Composed at the same time as Anaklasis and Threnody, Dimensions of Time and Silence is an equally important example of Penderecki exploring the limits of sound. In the first version for mixed choir, percussion and strings, written in 1960, the choral part includes the Latin Sator Square (“Sator arepo tenet opera rotas”) as well as rotations of consonants in clusters. The composer’s commentary explained the use of these elements as an attempt to translate into the language of music ideas from the paintings of Klee and Yves Klein – particularly those related to combinations of colours. Having deleted the choral fragment with its Latin sentence, he arranged the whole as a sequence of “soun