Penderecki: Violin Concerto No 1; Horn Concerto Winterreise | Classical CD review

Kabara/Vlatkovic/Sinfonia Cracovia/Penderecki (Channel Classics)Krzysztof Penderecki has long maintained that his concertos contain some of his most intimate and personal music, though the two recorded here take us into very different emotional territory. The vast, hard-hitting First Violin Concerto, written in 1977 while his father was dying, was the work that marked his return to more conservative modes of composition after his period as an avant-garde tearaway. Bruckner is often cited as the ...

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