KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI+KAZIMIERZ SEROCKI+TADEUSZ BAIRD AVANT-GARDE POLISH LP RARE

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KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI / KAZIMIERZ SEROCKI / TADEUSZ BAIRD / GRAZYNA BACEWICZ

 CONTEMPORARY POLISH MUSIC LP

Philips 

Rare original french album in the great 60's Modern Music Series by Philips presenting works of polish composers Penderecki, Serocki, Baird, Bacewicz performed by the Warsaw National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Some info on the release:  Rare original issue, released in France sometime in the 60's on the great Philips Modern Music series label (Pierre Henry Orphee album, Panorama de Musiques Experimentales with Luc Ferrari, Mauricio Kagel, Francois Dufrene, Badings / Raaijmakers album, etc.). Brilliant and hard to find selection of avant-garde compositions from polish composers Penderecki, Serocki, Bacewicz and Baird.

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (Tren ofiarom Hiroszimy in Polish) is a musical composition for 52 string instruments, composed in 1960 by Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933), which took third prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Competition in Katowice in 1960. The piece swiftly attracted interest around the world and made its young composer famous. The piece—perhaps as a nod to John Cage originally called 8'37" (at times also 8'26")—applies the sonoristic technique and rigors of specific counterpoint to an ensemble of strings treated to unconventional scoring. Penderecki later said "It existed only in my imagination, in a somewhat abstract way." When he heard an actual performance, "I was struck by the emotional charge of the work...I searched for associations and, in the end, I decided to dedicate it to the Hiroshima victims". The piece tends to leave an impression both solemn and catastrophic, earning its classification as a threnody. On October 12, 1964, Penderecki wrote, "Let the Threnody express my firm belief that the sacrifice of Hiroshima will never be forgotten and lost." The piece's unorthodox, largely symbol-based score sometimes directs the musicians to play at various unspecific points in their range or to concentrate on certain textural effects; they are directed to play on the opposite side of the bridge or to slap the body of the instrument. Penderecki sought to heighten the effects of traditional chromaticism by using "hypertonality"—composing in quarter tones—which sometimes makes dissonance more prominent than it would be in traditional tonality. The piece includes an "invisible canon", in 36 voices, an overall musical texture that is more important than the individual notes, making it a leading example of sound mass composition. As a whole, Threnody constitutes one of the most extensive elaborations on the tone cluster. In film, excerpts from Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima are used in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of The Shining, the 2006 dystopian film Children of Men, as well as David Lynch's Inland Empire.

Condition: Vinyl lies in excellent- condition, looks clean and plays nicely, while cover lies in very good shape, ex-library copy with stickers in front and back, tiny tear on bottom left and moderate age wear (see picture).

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