Feb 28, 2022
Metamorphosen, Penderecki’s Second Violin Concerto, was written for the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter between 1992 and 1995. Drawing on the contrasts between this work and the First Violin Concerto, which was premiered by Isaac Stern in 1977, and contextualising Metamorphosen with the Second Violin Sonata and La...
Feb 14, 2022
The two most famous operas by Penderecki offer a dazzling contrast in style and subject. Where The Devils of Loudun, premiered in 1969, translates Aldous Huxley’s history of religious possession and persecution in music of unsettling sensuality and brutality, the opera buffa, Ubu Rex, premiered in 1991, wraps a satire...