Penderecki: St. Luke Passion
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Performer: Adam KruszewskiPerformer: Romuald Tesarowicz
Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki
Conductor: Antoni Wit
Orchestra: Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Jaroslaw Malanowicz
Performer: Izabella Klosinska
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- O Crux Ave
- Et Egressus
- Deus Meus
- Domine, Quis Habitabit
- Adhuc Eo Loquente
- Ierusalem
- Ut Quid, Domine
- Comprehendentes Autem Eum
- Iudica Me, Deus
- Et Viri, Qui Tenebant Illum
- Ierusalem
- Miserere Mei, Deus
- Et Surgens Omnis
- Et In Pulverem
- Et Baiulans Sibi Crucem
- Popule Meus
- Ibi Crucifixerunt Eum
- Crux Fidelis
- Diidentes Vero
- In Pulverem Populus
- Et Stabat Populus
- Unus Autem
- Stabant Autem Iuxta Crucem
- Stabat Mater
- Erat Autem Fere Hora Sexta
- Alla Breve
- In Pulverem Mortis...In Te, Domine Speravi
Free Music Notes for Penderecki: St. Luke Passion
Free Music Review: A Modernistic Passion
Hit: 5 Stars
Although he has returned to a neo-romantic compositional style, Kryzstof Penderecki (b. 1933) first became known as an avant-guarde modernist composer. His monumental "St. Luke Passion", first performed in 1966, has become, in its intensity and emotionality, one of the few overtly modernistic compositions to attract a wide audience. This work is heavily indebted to the passion music of Bach but in a style that is uniquely modern. Penderecki uses the letters of Bach's name, B-A-C-H, as the basis for many of the tone rows in the work.
The St Luke Passion is scored for a massive orchestra, including a large percussion section, chorus and boys chorus, soprano, baritone, and bass soloists, and an Evangelist. The work sets texts from the Gospel of St. Luke as well as from other biblical and liturgical sources.
The St. Luke Passion reflects the composer's own devout faith, but one does not need to be a believer to respond to this score. The music is almost entirely atonal. At only two points, at the end of the piece and it the conclusion of the climactic "stabat mater" does Penderecki resolve the music into a chord in the major key. Virtually the entire work is sad and somber. Within its frame, their is a great diversity of music. Penderecki uses the form of ancient chants, in the chorus singing a capella in hushed tones. In portions of the work, such as the scene before Pilate (track no 13) or the scene where Jesus is mocked on the cross (track no 22) the chorus hisses and shouts in a strong cacophony of sound. The soloists have moments of almost mystical intensity. And the spoken part of the Evangelist alternates effectively with the choral and solo passages. The music makes frequent use of a gong, which reminded me of the extensive use of that instrument in the more accessible music of the American composer, Alan Hovhaness.
This recording of the St Luke Passion dates from 2004 and received a deserved rating of 10/10 on Classics Today. Antoni Wit conducts the Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra and the Warsaw Boys Choir. The recording is part of a continuing series of Penderecki's major works on the budget-priced Naxos label. It makes a compelling case for this passionate music. The CD includes detailed liner notes and the complete Latin text and translation of the Passion. Izabella Klosinaska is especially impressive in her soprano solos.
The St Luke Passion opens with an expansive prayer, set for organ, orchestra and large chorus. It follows, in Part I with a series of recitifs, solos, and choruses of the events leading to the arrest of Jesus. The admonition "Jerusalem, Jerusalem turn again to thy God" is repeated twice, the first time for chorus the second time for soprano solo.
The second and longer portion of the work describes the Crucifiction in anguished music with frenetic writing for the chorus. The climactic moments of the work include the long chorus "Popule meus" (track 16), the "Stabat mater" (track 24) which incorporates Penderecki's setting of this text in 1962, and the final chorus (track 27) which ends in the major key with the words Into thy hands I commend my spirit/ for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth."
The St. Luke Passion is difficult music with an emotional force that cannot be denied. Listeners who are willing to see that modernistic music can have an almost visceral appeal will love this music of passion and religious devotion.
Total Time: 76:24
Robin Friedman
Penderecki: St. Luke Passion Poster
Penderecki's St Luke Passion takes as its model the Passions of Bach, the events leading up to the Crucifixion related in an ongoing sequence of narratives, arias and choruses. Its stark simplicity and directness attracted worldwide attention and it was quickly performed many times in Europe and the USA. For many, here at last was a piece of contemporary music which made an immediate emotional impact, and the use of contemporary compositional techniques served only to reinforce the dramatic power of the work. In 1964 West German Radio commissioned a large-scale choral work to commemorate the seven hundredth anniversary of the consecration of Munster Cathedral: the Passio et mors Domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Lucam, to give Penderecki's St Luke Passion its full Latin title, was the outcome. That the year of its premi?re on 30th March 1966 also marked the thousandth anniversary of the introduction of Christianity into Poland, is a fact of which Penderecki must have been well aware.Classical Music CDs
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