Release Date: 02 September 2022
Label: Orfeo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4011790212517
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Michael Gielen conducts Szymanowski & Penderecki
Description
Despite their different musical languages, all works by the Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki presented on this album have in common the inherent character of a lament: Szymanowski’s Stabat mater, which was completed in 1926 and is based on a Polish translation of the Latin medieval poem, is considered as one of the most important compositions of the 20th century. Penderecki’s three-part oratorio Dies Irae was commissioned for a commemoration day in remembrance of the murder victims at the former concentration camp in Auschwitz, and hence carries the epithet “Auschwitz Oratorium”. The album closes with a Threnos for 52 string instruments dedicated to the Victims of Hiroshima. The final haunting bars of this composition present a tutti cluster, starting in a triple forte and fading out to quadruple piano.
Jorg Widmann; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Peter Ruzicka
Dunja Vejzovic; Martin Egel; Werner Hollweg; Reid Bunger; Olga Sandu; Wolfgang Witte; Robert Riener
Fritz Wunderlich; Ingeborg Hallstein; Naan Pöld; Hertha Töpper; Jean Cook; Karl Christian Kohn; Max
Szerying/Br So/Kubelik
Müller-Schott/Schuch
London/Bavarian Radio So
Helen Donath, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra, Kurt Eichhorn
Helen Donath, Janet Perry, Alexander Malta, Nikolaus Hillebrand, Paul Hansen, Claes H. Ahnsjo, Raim
