Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1961) | Текст песни

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Krzysztof Penderecki
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1961)
For 52 stringed instruments

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice)
Antoni Wit, conductor

The appearance of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima was a major event. The piece contained previously unheard means of powerful expression — explosive and liberating. By employing both known and unknown modes of articulation, Penderecki made strings sound akin to percussion and wind. He drew on two contrasting compositional techniques: the extreme freedom of aleatoricism and the exacting one of serialism.
The series of sonorist events opens unexpectedly with a poignant cry in the highest possible register. It ushers in an orgy of hissing, 'noise' and rasps, played in all possible ways. The music intensifies with series of clusters, subdued at first, then glissando aggressive and rising. After a while, they recede before a sequence of pointillistically-scattered sounds which, despite sounding improvised, are intricately woven into a 36-voice canon. The streams of clusters return, rising to the full 52 voices – first in a cry, then dying down to pppp.
“I had written this piece,” the composed once reminisced, “and I named it, much as in Cage's manner, 8' 37''. But it existed only in my imagination, in a somewhat abstract way. When Jan Krenz recorded it and I could listen to an actual performance, I was struck with the emotional charge of the work. I thought it would be a waste to condemn it to such anonymity, to those 'digits'. I searched for associations and, in the end, I decided to dedicate it to the Hiroshima victims” (1994).
From Music Notes by Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski

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