Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most prominent figures of Western contemporary music, has been described as the "Beethoven of our time". On November 26, 2023, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (GSO) ...

In 2013, to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Witold Lutos?awski as well as the round, 80th birthday anniversaries of two other prominent Polish composers: Henryk Miko?aj Górecki, who passed ...

Man’s worst moments seem to fascinate Poland’s avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. In his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, Dies Irae (an oratorio in memory of the dead of Auschwitz) and ...

Krzysztof Penderecki, a Polish composer and conductor whose modernist works jumped from the concert hall to popular culture, turning up in soundtracks for films like “The Exorcist” and “The Shining” ...

In Munich, the Bavarian State Opera’s annual festival opens with Krzysztof Penderecki’s harrowing account of demonic possession and pervasive evil. By Joshua Barone MUNICH — There are certainly more ...