As a cellist I can say only - there is probably no music (excepting Shostakovich and Prokofiev...) for cellist, which could give us bigger pleasure while playing! No Dvorak, no Schumann, no Haydn. Penderecki uses every possibilities of our instrument, perfectly knows what we can do and what we dream of - intensity, emotions, high register, virtuosity - all of this is in this concerto. And beautiful harmonies - nothing else we need to be happy :) A great gift for cellists from this composer - having so many different musical faces. This week I played his Credo and this music cannot also leave my mind, is still there, so moving...

@DJAnthrocide

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I love Shostakovich and Penderecki but am not familiar w/ Prokofiev for cello, am looking forward to it...

@Viktorvelat95

Жыл бұрын

Schnittke?

@hjo4104

8 ай бұрын

Beethoven ???

A contemporary masterpiece !!!!!!!

Way ahead of it's time. Refreshingly original. Perfect music to think by. Thanks for posting.

The great composer is conducting his own composition ! What more ? A lot of thanks

Fantastic recording of a wonderful work. Thank you

Thank you!

so out there. Love love love.

This is wonderful

!!!!! Thanks!!!

@darrylschultz9311

6 жыл бұрын

Алена Меркулова !?!?!? No wurreez !!!??!???!!!

Great and refreshing.

beautiflu beautiful!

Beautiful

R.I.P. 29.3.2020

@authenticbaguette6673

4 жыл бұрын

Theodore Aravanis indeed , he will be missed ..

would love to see an orcestra play Krzysztof's music

E' stato l'ultimo grande compositore, e questo concerto lo dimostra ancora una volta. Sonorità eccellenti.

@giulianoagostinetti

3 жыл бұрын

La cover è di James Brooks

Ein sensationelles Werk!

great

merci

Проникновенно...

I have this played by Monighetti, Noras and the Warsaw Natl Phil Orch (Kwiatkowski plays in both). This is every bit as good if not better for my taste, with celli more forward. Thanks.

I remember playing this wonderful Concerto Grosso in an all-cello orchestra at Oxford Cello School when I was 16. Unfortunately, I'm not in touch with any of the friends I made there anymore, so I'll just have to reminisce alone.

Really haunting. It is difficult to find non-minimalist contemporary music that is moving.

@MegaCirse

5 жыл бұрын

Bien dit, j'applaudis des deux mains !

Timeless.

Che opera meravigliosa: qui c'è la vera essenza (senza l'utilizzo, da parte dell'autore, di tanti giri di parole musicali) dell'uomo contemporaneo.

bardzo bardzo piekne i usmiech na srode piekna !

Boston Symphony under Dutoit this week! (11/28/13)

Well... it was a once in a lifetime experience but something like 15 or so years ago K. Penderecki himself came to Athens in Greece and directed the Polish Requiem played by the National Greek Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Unforgetable !

One of Penderecki's 'normal' works! Didn't know he could write them!

@olegyablokov4334

Жыл бұрын

Haha

Excellent work. I do hear many motifs from Credo, though.

wonderful music, who is the terrific painting by?

@drapik9144

4 жыл бұрын

James Brooks

@bernd1963rei

3 жыл бұрын

@@drapik9144 tnx

So it is possible after all, to write a 'classical' piece in modern times!

@filipealexandresousa2087

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Bouchier It uses modern techniques

@paolocatenacciocompositore

9 жыл бұрын

+Peter Bouchier there are a lot of composer in our century

@MrInterestingthings

8 жыл бұрын

+Peter Bouchier There are tens of thousands of young people studying wit the great masters of or time .Art and genius never stop though it seems the ability of the public to keepup with music hat faces the challenges and sounds like today's contemporary is decidedly small.People want to be entertained .Queen and Prince and Bowie and Eno and all the rock and roll boys learn from our roots .Stravinsky and Schoenberg are more mindfully revolutionary than almost anything ecer experienced in rock.Only jazz comes up to the limitless possibilities of classical origins .

@sanicyouth6540

7 жыл бұрын

"Queen and Prince and Bowie and Eno and all the rock and roll boys learn from our roots" I suppose that you could also say that Frank Zappa and Sonic Youth learn from the roots as well.

@joedeegan3870

7 жыл бұрын

No matter how great something is, you will get tired of it. We need new music, serious music. The idea of the Artist can be a problem. I think Bach thought of himself more as a Craftsman who could turn out a workable piece of music for any occasion. Holding yourself to a standard of total originality and calling everything Art is very daunting.

10:20

They're playing this tonight at the Proms. BBC Radio 3 if you're not in London

The painting? Pollock? Krasner? Toddler?

@DieFlabbergast

8 жыл бұрын

Possibly an elephant.

@darrylschultz9311

6 жыл бұрын

A herd of elephants 2 milliseconds after being blown up in a terror attack by ISIS for not reading the Koran.

@drapik9144

4 жыл бұрын

James Brooks

It sounds like shostakovich's music....

@DieFlabbergast

8 жыл бұрын

+Alteridade Absoluta Shostakovich on a permanent diet of horror movies and LSD, if you ask me. Some of Penderecki's works are very impressive, but there is a great "sameness" about them -- more so than in the case of most composers. His 3rd Symphony is, to my mind, his masterpiece.

@MegaCirse

5 жыл бұрын

And not only!

@MegaCirse

5 жыл бұрын

DSCH ??

@MegaCirse

5 жыл бұрын

Why trash ? Je ne comprends pas bien...... :-( Ah oui excusez-moi, je suis français .......... :-)

@BritinIsrael

4 жыл бұрын

@@MegaCirse Dmitri SCHostakovich. Schostakovich used his Initials in many of his works and most blatantly in the finale of his great 10th symphony.

I don't claim to have any great insight, but notice that 80 000 viewed this and 9 million viewed Schuman piano concerto in about the same period. I don't know what the numbers would be for Schonberg piano concerto (I have listened to my copy about twice). I believe that few people are willing to re-jig their brains so that e.g. serial music sounds "wonderful", but its your brain. It seems that many great composers took a dip, I think of Hindemith, Rochberg, Ives, Vaughn Williams, Gorecki, before seeing that you cant throw the baby out with the water. Ives said that he could not expect his family to starve on his dissonances. Humans evolved to enjoy emotion.

I hear many protesting that music must progress and that Penderecki is headed backwards against the flow. But isn't it possible that we took a wrong turn at Schoenberg, and have been exploring a large empty dead end ever since? And Penderecki is leading us out of the wastelands? Classical music has been losing its' audience for a century and for good reason. Locally, if the VSO wants to sell out, they have to go all the way back to Mozart to find something people are willing to listen to. Or back to Holst at the least.

@authenticbaguette6673

4 жыл бұрын

Tubluer this idea of there being this one superior way of doing music is nonsense to begin with . F*ck boulez .

@Tubluer

4 жыл бұрын

@@authenticbaguette6673 One superior way? Well, it's certainly not one of MY ideas. However I do believe there are an infinitude of inferior ways. Which explains why not every toddler with a drum is considered a prodigy. There might not be A Right Way but there are certainly many wrong ways and I think serialism was one of them. One of the less obviously bad ones, a way that captured to many for too long. I see Penderecki as leading us out of the desert, to a mountaintop from which many paths extend in many directions.

@thefxbip315

3 жыл бұрын

Penderecki was not a reactionary, he just did what he wanted, always has. You on the other hand do have very much a reactionary discourse. Everything after Schoenberg a dead end???? i do not think the master would have agreed to such discourse. On the contrary! Ligeti? Schnittke? Xenakis? Stockhausen? Varese? John Cage? electronic, electroacoustic and concrete and tape music? Morton Subotnick? what about Penderecki himself?. The list goes on and on, without all of those there would have been great loss to music. Don't fool yourself with a nostalgia of the past. There was an astonishing amount of good music made because of Schoenberg innovations. Schoenberg did good. He started something that give birth to amazing artistic revelations and new attitudes in music. It even reached as far as free jazz, improvisation and modern electronic music. If anything, the orchestras are dying because they don't do the job of representing living music, the very nostalgia you preach upon is what is killing it. As much as i love Beethoven and Mozart, Ligeti and Penderecki should be known today by the majority the same way much as the old masters are known in their days and today still because they are definitively of the same caliber. And be in many more concert programs. Musical institutions needs to be of their time. Composers dead since hundred of years should be the exceptions on programs not the norm.

@Tubluer

3 жыл бұрын

@@thefxbip315 It sounds to me like you are making an argument for novelty at any cost. As time passes, it is to be expected that a genius will appear from time to time, meaning that the old music becomes steadily harder and harder to improve on. So it makes sense to expect that over time, older music will come to dominate the program and the performance of new works will, more and more, become an exceptional and rare event. There are those who believe the tastes of musicians and composers override those of the listening public. It is this belief that is driving classical music into the ground. We forget that Bach, Beethoven and Mozart were once the pop music of their time. What is needed is compositions based on sound theory, with a youthful energy and drive. Some of the Beatles' works that incorporate orchestras come to mind. And Penderecki of course is headed in the right direction.

@thefxbip315

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tubluer I am not. Novelty is but one of the many attitudes that shapes music. I love traditional music for example and a lot of very tonal electronic or songs. But what i can't stand is the pathetic anti-modernist stances of those who are afraid of novelty in arts. Innovation in arts must be defended. Did you ever read about Ligeti or Shostakovich lifes? when taken to extremes anti-modernistic attitudes become anti-creative rules and censorship. I will always speak firmly against such attitudes. Many composers fought against oppressive governments and sometime had to compose in secret because of the possible consequences of creating modern works, they had to fight to be able to express their artistic truth.

I think what we need after so many failed experiments of modernists and postmodernists alike, is to return to tonal and harmonic roots of the past centuries and reinterpret these universal structural achievements anew. This cacophonic chaos should be overcome once and for all. We need new meanings in life and in arts, away from the spiritual dead end we are undergoing since at least 20th century.

@djsreja1

5 жыл бұрын

Why should we take a step backwards? If that music was perfect people wouldnt progress further, we would still listen to the same things that people listened to back then, and if there are no experiments, music and/or everything else would be static and boring. I think that we need more people that experiment, because there is a bunch of them doing the same thing over and over again. Music doesnt have to sound safe, chill, fluid, agressive and all those things you want to feel, music is art, and art should bring all kinds of emotions, not just the ones you feel good about!

@maryowen5427

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, contemporary music is about living in the present moment, following where it takes you, never knowing where it is going, watching it.@@djsreja1

@johnrobertson1795

4 жыл бұрын

Look me up on youtube; my music may appeal to you. Type in John Robertson Symphony 2 and quite a few things of mine come up. Enjoy,

I know that I will ahve almost evrybody against me, but I do not approve the "neo-postromantism" of Penderecki, who was one of the leaders of the "avant-garde" of the 60's and the 70's. It is a bit like the neoclasical scores of Stravinski, it is pleasant to hear them from time to time but they brought no progress to the music.

@ozgoodel.9645

6 жыл бұрын

The novelist Peter De Vries wrote apropos avant-garde literature, "There is no where for fiction to go except back to narrative, just as there is no where for a drunk to go except back home." Same applies to music and tonality. And as Nietzsche wrote, "Progress is merely a modern idea, that is to say a false idea."

@didierschein8515

5 жыл бұрын

Tout à fait d'accord avec vous. Il y a une régression dans le style de Penderecki. C'est peut-être très bien écrit, mais comment peut-on parler de création quand plus rien n'est inventé ? Or un artiste doit créer.

@MegaCirse

5 жыл бұрын

Vous pourriez dire la même chose de Ligeti, vous et quelques autres... Ces deux compositeurs à la sensibilité proches n'ont fait qu'inventer! Le temps leur donnera raison et réhabilitera si besoin est, leurs oeuvres flamboyantes !

@didierschein8515

5 жыл бұрын

@@MegaCirse Je ne suis pas d'accord avec la comparaison avec Ligeti qui, à mon avis, n'a jamas renié ses différentes périodes créatrices, au contraire de Penderecki qui est passé à côté d'une oeuvre qui aurait pu être véritablement fascinante. Il a renoncé à une évolution qui aurait pu le mener vers un style proche de celui de Lachenmann par exemple. Le terme "flamboyant" convient mieux aussi à l'oeuvre de Ligeti qu'à celle de Penderecki, à part peut-être son arboretum.

@MegaCirse

5 жыл бұрын

Je vous sais gré de m'avoir orienté vers Lachenmann.. Par ailleurs et à ma connaissance, K. Penderecki n'est pas mort, même s'il est probablement inactif aujourd'hui musicalement parlant ! Mais ce dernier a évolué suffisament loin pour ne pas revenir en arrière et se répéter, comme tout grand compositeur qui se respecte. Les architectures musicales de Ligeti et Penderecki sont si proches l'une de l'autre, dans la désespérance, ou la désagrégation si vous préférez, de leur temps ;-)

One of the worst music ever made. Terrifying horror classics.

@paoloquiesa9369

9 жыл бұрын

Klaus-Juergen Kessel Ignoramus

@Lengo67

7 жыл бұрын

I can see his point, but I can't call it worst, yet he did call it music.

@luizmarcondesmusica

6 жыл бұрын

remember Brando on Apocalypse Now: "The horror, the horror..."

@k.l.1522

4 жыл бұрын

kurtz in heart on darkness