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Penderecki - Symphony No.8, Dies irae, Aus den Psalmen Davids | Naxos 8570450

Penderecki - Symphony No.8, Dies irae, Aus den Psalmen Davids

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570450

Barcode: 0747313045075

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd January 2008

Contents

Artists

Kaune
Rehlis
Drabowicz
Lubanska
Minkiewicz
Brek
Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

Conductor

Antoni Wit

Works

Penderecki, Krzysztof

Aus den Psalmen Davids
Dies Irae
Symphony no.8 'Songs of Transience'

Artists

Kaune
Rehlis
Drabowicz
Lubanska
Minkiewicz
Brek
Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

Conductor

Antoni Wit

About

Penderecki’s Eighth Symphony, which here receives its world première recording, is a setting of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German poems entitled 'Lieder der Vergänglichkeit' (Songs of Transience).

Mankind’s journey through life, as reflected in the decay and rebirth of the natural world, underlies its twelve movements. Scored for not dissimilar forces, the oratorio Dies irae is a very different proposition, commissioned to mark the unveiling of the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Composed in 1958 and given its première at Kraków in September the following year, Aus den Psalmen Davids was one of the works that marked Penderecki’s arrival on the new music scene.

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