Penderecki: Piano Concerto 'Resurrection', Ciaccona

Featuring

Müza Rubackytė
Keri-Lynn Wilson
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Krzysztof Penderecki

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Penderecki, a deeply religious man, gave the 'Resurrection' Concerto its subtitle due to his Christian and pantheistic view of life, his passion for trees, and its connection to the 9/11 attacks.

Compositional Technique

The 'Resurrection' Concerto is structured in a single sweep with incessant rhythmic changes, making it more akin to a symphonie concertante in rhapsodic form, where the piano is fully integrated into the orchestra.

Recording & Production

This album includes the world premiere recording of the 'Ciaccona in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II' arranged for piano solo by Stanislaw Deja.

Compositional Technique

The main thematic idea of the 'Resurrection' Concerto, the introduction of a chorale, came to Penderecki after seeing images of the 9/11 attacks, appearing three times and radically modifying the work's end.

Composition History

Krzysztof Penderecki, the composer, thoroughly reworked the finale of his Piano Concerto 'Resurrection' after the September 11, 2001 attacks, believing the world had entered a new era of terrorism.

Composition History

The 'Ciaccona' for solo piano, featured on this album, is an arrangement of the string version of the Agnus Dei from Penderecki's Polish Requiem, composed on the death of Pope John Paul II, a close friend of the composer.

Performer Biography

Mūza Rubackytė, the pianist on this recording, had a special artistic relationship and deep friendship with composer Krzysztof Penderecki, meeting him in 2003.