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One fascinating thing about Krzysztof Penderecki's music is that his creative personality remained consistent, whether he was expressing it in a folk-influenced Bartókian idiom early in his career, in the extremes of high modernism in the 1960s or in the neo-tonal, almost neo-Romantic style of his later years. There is a thread of intensity, of exploiting instrumental possibilities, of a quintessentially modern sense of living on the edge that runs through his whole output. This is nowhere more true than in Penderecki's chamber music, and the thread is what the Meccore String Quartet captures well here. Although Penderecki's chamber music is fairly abundantly recorded, and one might find recordings of individual pieces here that are more to one's liking, the album, as a whole, has a satisfying cohesion. Given that the notes stress the idea of knowing Penderecki through his quartets, it is a bit odd that the music isn't taken in chronological order, but of course, it can be listened to in any order. In any event, the Shostakovich-like String Quartet No. 4 is placed last in the group and gets a fine, tense performance here. Another highlight is the lyrical Clarinet Quartet of 1993, with a haunting turn on the clarinet by Jan Jakub Bokun in the Serenade movement. The sound from the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music is quite hot, but this meshes well with the Meccore's general approach; the music here is "in your face" in the best way. This will fill a hole in many shelves or hard drives of European contemporary chamber music.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Jan Jakub Bokun, Soloist, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Jan Jakub Bokun, Soloist, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Jan Jakub Bokun, Soloist, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Jan Jakub Bokun, Soloist, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, Composer - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Meccore String Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Antoni Grzymała, RecordingEngineer
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Album review
One fascinating thing about Krzysztof Penderecki's music is that his creative personality remained consistent, whether he was expressing it in a folk-influenced Bartókian idiom early in his career, in the extremes of high modernism in the 1960s or in the neo-tonal, almost neo-Romantic style of his later years. There is a thread of intensity, of exploiting instrumental possibilities, of a quintessentially modern sense of living on the edge that runs through his whole output. This is nowhere more true than in Penderecki's chamber music, and the thread is what the Meccore String Quartet captures well here. Although Penderecki's chamber music is fairly abundantly recorded, and one might find recordings of individual pieces here that are more to one's liking, the album, as a whole, has a satisfying cohesion. Given that the notes stress the idea of knowing Penderecki through his quartets, it is a bit odd that the music isn't taken in chronological order, but of course, it can be listened to in any order. In any event, the Shostakovich-like String Quartet No. 4 is placed last in the group and gets a fine, tense performance here. Another highlight is the lyrical Clarinet Quartet of 1993, with a haunting turn on the clarinet by Jan Jakub Bokun in the Serenade movement. The sound from the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music is quite hot, but this meshes well with the Meccore's general approach; the music here is "in your face" in the best way. This will fill a hole in many shelves or hard drives of European contemporary chamber music.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:43
- Main artists: Meccore String Quartet Jan Jakub Bokun
- Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki
- Label: Capriccio
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music
2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria 2023 Capriccio, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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