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³ ! ¹¯—D> ÜÌ\†Sío 555265bk Penderecki US 10/1/03 4:57 PM Page 5 Antoni Wit orchestral se développe alors, les trombones et les aux cordes, des coups de gong ajoutant par leurs timbales poussant la musique vers un éclat plein résonances à l’impression générale de mystère. Le DDD Antoni Wit, one of the most highly regarded Polish conductors, studied conducting d’âpreté, avant que le soliste n’introduise une soliste reprend le mouvement harmonique principal, with Henryk Czyz and composition with Krzysztof Penderecki at the Academy of atmosphère plus capricieuse. Des cordes nerveuses montant jusqu’au sommet de son registre. Après PENDERECKI 8.555265 Music in Cracow, subsequently continuing his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. ondulent et s’enroulent chromatiquement jusqu’à ce que l’interruption d’un bref tutti rappelant Bruckner, l’élan He also graduated in law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Immediately after le soliste se pose sur un accord tenu ; alors la musique se s’accélère avec une idée rythmique aux altos, rejoints completing his studies he was engaged as an assistant at the Warsaw Philharmonic stabilise relativement. Par-dessus la pulsation des par d’autres cordes et par les vents, puis par le soliste. Orchestra by Witold Rowicki and was later appointed conductor of the Poznan cordes, le soliste construit l’éclat le plus soutenu Cette vigoureuse activité contrapuntique se poursuit Philharmonic. He collaborated with the Warsaw Grand Theatre, and from 1964 to 1977 jusqu’ici, avant que la tenue ne reparaisse aux cordes. sans relâche jusqu’à ce qu’elle soit dissipée par une Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 was artistic director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic, before his appointment as Les cuivres font retentir une réponse affligée et le tenue en accord aux cordes. Un discours plus lyrique director of the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra and Chorus in Cracow. From soliste mène l’ensemble jusqu’à un apogée. La musique s’impose alors, austère par son orchestration mais 1983 to 2000 he was the director of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in reparaît alors brièvement, annonçant une section ponctué de touches de percussions très imaginatives. Le Konstanty Kulka • Chee-Yun Katowice, and from 1987 to 1994 he was the chief conductor and then first guest « scherzo » à la Chostakovitch sur des rythmes de soliste muse songeusement avec la clarinette, puis il conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. In 2002 he became General percussion répétés. Celle-ci est écourtée par la musique décrit soudain une spirale vers un éclat de tutti Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. His international career funéraire, à laquelle le soliste répond avec la mélancolie passionné. Un passage fugué angulaire mène à une série has brought engagements with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and appropriée. Une section plus pensive, voire résignée d’accords répétés avec un carillon d’orchestre et un Antoni Wit the Near and Far East. He has made nearly a hundred records, including an acclaimed s’ensuit, culminant dans un inquiétant passage de trilles gong, après quoi le discours lyrique reprend, avec un release for Naxos of the piano concertos of Prokofiev, awarded the Diapason d’Or and Grand Prix du Disque de la du soliste enchâssé dans les aigus des cordes, des vents accompagnement poignant des vents. Un mouvement Nouvelle Académie du Disque. In January 2002 his recording of the Turangalîla Symphony by Olivier Messiaen et de la harpe. Un impétueux mouvement de toccata fait apparenté à une toccata s’affirme aux altos et aux received the Cannes Classical Award at MIDEM Classic 2002. Antoni Wit is a professor at the F. Chopin Academy irruption, s’atténuant en rencontrant la musique funèbre percussions, par-dessus lequel le soliste adopte une of Music in Warsaw. avant qu’un soudain éclat de tutti ne vienne amorcer la posture de défi désinvolte. L’intensité s’accroît jusqu’à cadence du concerto. Celle-ci résume la plupart des un nouvel accord tenu, les violoncelles introduisant un idées mélodiques du soliste, brièvement interrompues passage plaintif pour le soliste au sommet de son Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933) lorsque la musique de scherzo est subrepticement registre, par-dessus le scintillement des cordes et des réintroduite. Le mouvement de toccata met fin à la percussions. La tension augmente, le soliste paraissant Concerto pour violon et orchestre n° 1 cadence et l’apogée du concerto est atteint avec une agité tandis que la musique traverse un passage « Metamorphosen » Concerto pour violon et orchestre n° 2 intervention menaçante des cuivres. Le soliste relâche la tranchant et souvent dansant, regorgeant de pizzicatos et La Symphonie n°1 de Krzystof Penderecki (1973) symphonies et les concertos prenaient de plus en plus tension dans un épilogue sombre et alarmant, l’alto solo d’indications sul ponticello. L’énergie rythmique (Naxos 8.554567) fut l’apogée de son engagement d’importance dans sa production créatrice. et les basses apportant leur soutien en sourdine, et le s’accroît, interrompue par la cadence, qui tire le auprès de l’avant-garde européenne de l’après-guerre. D’abord conçu pour comporter plusieurs concerto se termine. meilleur parti des capacités techniques du soliste. Le Déjà, dans son Magnificat (1974) et son poème mouvements, le Concerto pour violon n°1 fut La technique de composition « de métamorphose », mouvement de danse reparaît soudain, mais un accord symphonique L’éveil de Jacob (1975), l’emphase se finalement réalisé en un vaste mouvement unique, qui transforme les motifs et les idées mélodiques au fur de tutti freine brutalement l’élan du morceau et un porte sur l’expression avec son ancrage harmonique même si on peut détecter des vestiges de la conception et à mesure que la musique progresse, joue un rôle passage fantomatique pour le soliste par-dessus les dans les univers sonores fin XIXème de Wagner et de originale dans les fréquents changements d’atmosphère essentiel dans cet ouvrage ainsi qu’elle le fera dans la basses et les timbales, coloré par les interventions de Bruckner. Cette transition fut menée à bien avec le et de rythme de l’ouvrage. Par-dessus des basses et des plupart des œuvres orchestrales de Penderecki pendant vents, mène le concerto à son apogée, bref mais Concerto pour violon n°1 (1974-76), commande de timbales haletantes, le matériau musical de base émerge un quart de siècle. En effet, Metamorphosen est le titre passionné, et à sa résolution finale, les tintements des l’Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft de Bâle, qui provoqua avec peine aux cordes, s’éteignant dans les rêveries de de son Concerto pour violon n°2 (1992-95), commande cloches et du gong enveloppant ces pages de conclusion une controverse considérable dans les nouveaux cercles la clarinette et des altos. Le soliste apparaît sur cette de la Radio centrale allemande ; il fut créé par fatalistes d’une aura d’incertitude. Cette conclusion musicaux à la suite de sa création du 27 avril 1977 par toile de fond, développant les idées entendues jusqu’ici l’orchestre de cette radio sous la direction de Mariss n’est pas aussi sinistre que la conclusion du Concerto Isaac Stern, à qui il est dédié, avec l’Orchestre en une séquence mélodique ascendante. La tension Jansons, avec Anne-Sophie Mutter, à qui le concerto est n°1, mais elle n’est guère optimiste. symphonique de Bâle et Moshe Atzmon. La réponse déborde en une idée funèbre aux cordes et aux timbales, dédié. Ici encore, un vaste mouvement unique comporte officielle du compositeur, « On peut encore utiliser les sur laquelle le soliste tisse une cantilène plus lyrique plusieurs sections intégrées, avec cette fois une plus formes anciennes pour faire de la musique nouvelle », mais toujours passionnée avant de se retirer lentement, grande différentiation de tempo et d’orchestration. Richard Whitehouse devait presque devenir une devise alors que les laissant place aux soupirs des cordes. Un puissant tutti L’ouvrage débute par un mouvement oscillatoire Traduction : David Ylla-Somers 8.555265 5 6 8.555265 555265bk Penderecki US 10/1/03 4:57 PM Page 2 Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933) pensively with the clarinet, then suddenly spirals to an sul ponticello writing. Rhythmic energy increases, Chee-Yun Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 impassioned tutti outburst. An angular fugal passage curtailed by the cadenza, which exploits the soloist’s An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and Young Concert Artists International ‘Metamorphosen’ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 leads to a repeated chord sequence with tubular bells technical capacity to the full. The dance motion strikes Auditions winner, the violinist Chee-Yun has performed with many of the world’s and gong, after which the lyrical discourse is resumed back in, but a tutti chord puts paid to the momentum, foremost orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, Krzystof Penderecki’s First Symphony (1973) (Naxos music now briefly returns, presaging a Shostakovich- with poignant accompaniment from woodwind. A and a ghostly passage for the soloist over basses and the Toronto Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and the National Symphony. Among 8.554567) brought to a climax his involvement with the like ‘scherzo’ section over repeated percussion rhythms. toccata-like motion now asserts itself on violas and timpani, filling out with woodwind contributions, her career highlights are performances at the Kennedy Center’s gala farewell to post-war European avant-garde. Already in his This is curtailed by the funereal music, to which the percussion, over which the soloist strikes a pose of proceeds to bring the concerto to its brief but Mstislav Rostropovich, the Mostly Mozart Festival’s tour of Japan, a national tour with Magnificat (1974) and tone poem Jacob’s Awakening soloist responds in suitably plangent terms.
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