PENDERECKI : Sinfoniettas • Oboe Capriccio • 3 Pieces in Old Style • Serenade • Intermezzo (Antoni Wit) (2012) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Composed over a period of some thirty years, the six string works in this programme cover the full stylistic range of Penderecki’s towering compositional career. The Sinfoniettas are transcriptions of two chamber works, impassioned in texture, courting elegy and terse gesture alike. With the Three Pieces in Old Style we are in the world of Baroque pastiche, whereas introspective intensity runs through the Serenade of 1997. Radicalism informs the Intermezzo whilst the Capriccio, written a decade earlier, reveals Penderecki’s lighter, more piquant side in scintillating fashion. ‘Antoni Wit’s Penderecki series for Naxos has been uniformly excellent…Top recommendation’. (ClassicsToday.com on 8.572032)
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Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)

1-3    Three Pieces In Old Style (1963)    6:04
4-5    Serenade (1997)    9:56
6    Sinfonietta No. 1 (1992)    14:02
8    Intermezzo For 24 Strings (1973)    6:53
9    Capriccio For Oboe And String Orchestra (1964)*    6:11
10-13    Sinfonietta No. 2 (1994)**

Clarinet – Artur Pachlewski**
Conductor – Antoni Wit
Oboe – Jean-Louis Capezzali*
Orchestra – Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra