Stabat Mater a tre cori a cappella
Warszawa: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne [PWM 5078], 1963.
Quarto (245 x 275 mm). Original publisher's wrappers with striking illustrations to both recto and verso by Polish artist Maciej Makarewicz (1912-2009) and Adam Mlodzianowski (1917-1985). [24] pp. Notation printed in black and red.
Lightly worn; minor creases and scuffs to wrappers; previous owner's name to title. Slightly browned; overall good condition.
First Edition, first printing.
Penderecki's Stabat Mater premiered in Warsaw on 27 November 1962 by the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir under Antoni Szaliński.
"[Penderecki] first came to prominence as an explorer of novel string textures and for many years his name was popularly synonymous with avant-garde Polish music. His subsequent allusions to 18th- and 19th-century idioms and genres, in his choral and operatic works as well as in his purely instrumental pieces, has produced a substantial body of work which challenges many assumptions about the nature and purpose of contemporary music. ...[He] rocked the boat with the concluding major triads in the Stabat mater (incorporated in the Passion) and Polymorphia, and in this gritty reworking of the Baroque genre he confidently incorporated chant, recitative and chorales. The choral writing, as adventurous as his instrumental textures, sometimes emulates electronic sounds, and the serial pitch organization (two 12-note rows are used) includes the B–A–C–H motif as a bridge to the more traditional elements in the score. It retains a clear narrative structure, and contains cyclic devices and set pieces, of which the ‘Stabat mater’ is the most substantial. " Adrian Thomas in Grove Music Online.
Item #34440
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