Penderecki - Symphony no.6, Clarinet Concerto
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Label: CD Accord
Cat No: ACD270
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th July 2021
Contents
Artists
Stephan Genz (baritone)Joanna Kravchenko (erhu)
Andrzej Wojciechowski (clarinet)
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot
Conductor
Wojciech RajskiWorks
Clarinet ConcertoSymphony no.6 'Chinese Songs'
Artists
Stephan Genz (baritone)Joanna Kravchenko (erhu)
Andrzej Wojciechowski (clarinet)
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot
Conductor
Wojciech RajskiAbout
“The Faustian destructive passion has never gone so far in history. […] To humans who are no longer used to contact with the sacrum, nature is but an lifeless entity, devoid of transcendental associations. Ecological rationalism can be of little use in this context. The death of trees, woods, tropical jungles – is not merely a biological problem. A culture that sins against forests undermines its own raison d’être.” Penderecki advances here his thesis concerning the ‘desacralisation of nature’, which, in his work as a composer, gave rise to the idea of Symphony no.6, which originally received the subtitle Elegy for a Dying Forest. (…)
The Clarinet Concerto is a one-movement form, whose clear-cut internal dichotomy is reflected in the sequence of sections: Lento – Vivace – Lento – Vivo – Lento. Two opposed emotional worlds manifest themselves alternately. The ‘sighing’ motif, which looks to Baroque-type rhetoric, is responsible for the sombre mood of the first Lento. This is followed by a section of relentless motoric drive (in tempo Vivace), which sounds a bit like a perpetual motion machine. The next Lento, more Romantic than the first one, otherworldly and immaterial, leads to the second scherzo, preceded by a cadenza. The final section rounds off the whole narrative form, with the return of the sighing motif and the orchestra and soloist’s joint ascent to the heavenly heights.
Despite the distance of more than 30 years that separates the Clarinet Concerto from Symphony No. 6, the two works are both evidence of a similar turn in Krzysztof Penderecki’s artistic stance – a turn from monumentalism to an intimate and internally lucid type of musical statement.
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