Krzysztof Penderecki's Viola Concerto was commissioned in 1983 by the government of Venezuela to mark the bicentenary of birth of Simon Bolivar, the South American hero of the struggle for ...

There's a beguiling photo of Krzysztof Penderecki, who turns 80 today, inside the brochure of this week's Warsaw music festival that bears his name. It shows the lauded Polish composer standing in his ...

The USC Thornton Symphony performed a series of concertos by Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Nikolai Kapustin, Friday evening in Bovard Auditorium. The performance was conducted by ...

Naxos’s valuable and ongoing Penderecki series here couples the Second Cello Concerto of 1982 and the Viola Concerto of 1983. Penderecki made his reputation in the late 1950s as a master of striking, ...

More and more young people have been coming to the Warsaw Autumn Festival concerts in recent years, and indeed they have accounted for a large, if not the prevailing, percentage of the audience. They ...

Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the world's leading composers, died Sunday at the age of 86. The Polish Ministry of Affairs announced his passing in a tweet. No cause of death was given. The Polish-born ...

Penderecki`s ”Partita” (a sound-piece in the composer`s earlier manner that treats plucked instruments concertante-style) and Halffter`s ”Parafrasis” (a somewhat schizophrenic, modernist homage to ...