Penderecki: concerto for cello and orchestra No. 1 (First part)

[calico992]

If you ever meet someone who says: I like classical music, but I tend to only I like it when its dark and brooding, and in a minor key, discordant, or mercurial. You can pretty much guarantee Penderecki is the best suggestion.

Krzystof is to 'Discordanct Minor Key' in the way Wet is to Water.

[henriqueverleun]

Grande Músico. Esse clima é um sinistro agradável fantástico. Genial

[Mazurka1001]

It hurts.

[Oszych2]

Ale czaaad ! Aż mnie ciary przechodzą !

[ColeDaltonBaker]

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?!?!?!

[AbeMunch]

It's like mahler 9 exploded into everything john williams ever wrote and then rostropovich came by on acid and he was like

HOLY SHIT

and just did the craziest shit he could think of

[joru100]

i mean, i listen to this now, but if that were to happen to me i'd be able to listen to this, only.

[joru100]

this is the kind of music i would only be able to listen to if i were a soldier who served a tour of duty in which i had to kill people, live in the constant fear of being killed, see the mutilated bodies of dead children and people, live a life of mundane repetition, and then at the end of it all become either batshit insane, or almost catatonically apathetic.

[peppersax]

I applaud the orchestra........HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE FU***** SCORE? When I first bought this album in the 70's, I took some acid and listened to it. Do I REALLY need to explain my reactions back then:) Penderecki was "da man"!

[1978TVP]

The Exorcist (1973) soundtrack, overwhelming masterpiece #OMG

[SuperSatan801209]

Wow! Now thats EPIC! I love Penderecki, and he's style of atmospheric darkness.

[rolwitit]

this song is really messing with my brain

[kylecasp]

I enjoy how intimate the strings sounds. I feel I can see the rosin flying off the bass bow.

[slewi111]

Would love to have this recording. Anyone know where to find it. What album is it on?

[gatorshowman]

@slewi111

EMI have it, I have the CD somewhere, but it is a yellow cover. Perhaps google their archive.

[Serialiste]

This is one of my favorite Penderecki pieces, if not my all-time favorite of his. I highly recommend the version by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Siegfried Palm performing the solo part. It has way more energy than this version, and Palm really brings out the tension of the solo part and seems to be in closer touch with the accompanying orchestra, especially at the ascending run beginning at 4:30. Palm simply explodes where Noras seems to fizzle...

[RodrigusVI]

I totally disagree with you... I listenned both versions and Noras is much better, he plays with much more sound, and makes a better fusion of the solo and the orchestra, sigfried did something that was kind of out of style...

[thomasodelago]

Noras was a close friend of Penderecki. They worked this piece out together, that's why his version is the best, in sense of what Penderecki had in mind

[Huddiethegreat]

@Serialiste Yes. Don't even listen to the piece if you can't hear that version. absolutely stunning.

[RodrigusVI]

Minute 3:00 is truly amazing, I love this piece.

[mrpumpkin]

Yes this is the best part of this work.

[23BET23]

Got to love musical saw!

[gajek1]

Wonerful! I wish it was easier to find the music for such wonderful pieces. No music stores carry any scores for new literature, its a shame... Very scary piece.

[NewMusicXX]

Beautiful work! I love the Pollock image as well! Thanks!