In his music, Penderecki has confronted politics, religion, social injustice and the plight of the common man. In 1980, the year that the trade union Solidarity was formed, Penderecki composed a Lacrimosa for the unveiling of a memorial in Gdańsk, erected to commemorate those killed in the 1970 shipyard riots, when Poland was under Soviet rule. The piece for soprano, orchestra and chorus later became part of another major work, the Polish Requiem, which contained music in tribute to Cardinal Wyszyński and Father Kolbe (who gave his life for another in Auschwitz).
While Penderecki found instant fame with Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, an avant-garde piece for 52 strings from 1960, he later broadened his compositional style to embrace tonality. In works like the Second Symphony ("Christmas Symphony") and the violin concerto called Metamorphosen, he displayed a singular post-romantic palette of orchestral colors.
He said that to be properly appreciated, Penderecki's music must be heard live to catch all of the subtlety. "When you listen to those recordings of Penderecki you just associate it with horror films and you think it's loud and abrasive and grating," Greenwood said. "But in the room it's actually very colorful and quiet and it's a magical experience."
Lacrimosa
Lacrimosa
形容詞
grating
- (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
- Abrasive; tending to annoy.
threnody とは【意味】悲歌,哀歌... 【例文】He wrote a threnody for the deceased.
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