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  • String Quartet No. 3 ‘Leaves of an unwritten diary’

The Labirynth.05

Visit one of Europe’s largest garden labyrinths and discover the music that has been concealed inside it! Penderecki planted 15000 hornbeams in accordance with a medieval design once found on a reproduction in an old book. To learn the labyrinth’s history, find four fragments of Penderecki’s work. Use the keyboard and the mouse to move around the site.

Amazing!
Please, find another spot!

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Read about the history of the labyrinth and its significance to the Maestro’s output.

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The Studio.6

What does Krzysztof Penderecki’s music sound like in his own park and garden?

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    The Garden of Memory.07

    • Hania Rani
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    • Janusz Marynowski
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    • Maciej Tworek
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    • About looking for silence in birdsongs at Lusławice Park.
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    • A Pyre Burning in Front of the Opera House. Condolences from the Managers of Poznań’s Grand Theatre
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    • Marcin Zdunik
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    • About the composer’s favourite mazes and oak-tree avenues planted to honour his granddaughter, Maria.
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    • I Watched Penderecki Make Sketches. A Cellist’s Memory of a Certain Flight
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    • Janusz Wawrowski
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    • His first musical memory, that of a brass band.
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    • "Quietus" journalist remembers late Penderecki
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    • A collaboration of giants that never took place.
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    • Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka
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    • On door-opening and memorable premieres.
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    • How he won a passport in a competition for composers and went on a journey of initiation.
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    • Vodka and Tomato Soup. Condolences from a Friend of the Pendereckis.
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    • On growing roots, designing gardens, and places where cats sleep on the stove.
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    • On the variable outer garment of music, copying masters, and having fun while composing.
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    • "Hollywood Reporter" lists the most outstanding films with the Master's music
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    • How a gift from his first girlfriend changed the composer’s life.
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    • Jeajoon Ryu
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    • About the hidden dilemma of each contemporary artist, and Penderecki’s choice.
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    • "Rolling Stone" recalls John Greenwood's memories
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    • On the short but roundabout way from Fluorescences to Stabat Mater.
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    • The Maestro at the Philharmonic’s Construction Site. Jerusalem in Szczecin and a Fanfare for the New Venue.
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    • How Kosmogonia was born out of a text collage.
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    • "Guardian" recalls the beginning of Krzysztof Penderecki's fame
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    • On the hard choice of poems for the cycle Songs of Reflection and Nostalgia.
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    • Song of Solomon in a Tiny Flat. Penderecki’s Music in the Eyes of a Rock Drummer.
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    • Elżbieta Penderecka on celebrating her husband’s jubilee and wedding anniversary.
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    • On the completion of A Polish Requiem and meeting the Polish Pope.
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    • Excerpt from the "New York Times" obituary about Penderecki's two eras
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    • About his cousin Tadeusz Kantor and the family’s complex ethnic origins.
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    Another proof of the composer’s fascination with Eastern Orthodox music and rite.

    Song of Cherubim
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    for mixed choir (1987)
    Polish Chamber Choir
    Jan Łukaszewski, conductor
    DUX 0694 (2010)

    Penderecki began work on this piece as a gift for the 60th birthday of his friend, eminent cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. The Song sets the text of the Hymn to the Holy Trinity, which in the Eastern Orthodox liturgy accompanies the opening of the royal doors leading to the altar. This piece for unaccompanied choir has three stages, composed so as to represent the participation of the faithful, the priests, and angels. It proceeds from quiet monody to an ecstatic polyphony. This small-scale piece may be considered as a postscript to the monumental bipartite Utrenya (1969-1971).

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