Penderecki : Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, Krzysztof Penderecki, 1976. National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), conducted by Antoni Wit, Chee-Yun (Violin). Recorded at Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, 2000. Picture : Scene from Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958. ““ Completed in 1976, Violin Concerto No. 1 marks a breakthrough in Krzysztof Penderecki’s development. It was written in a highly significant period in the history of Polish music. At least two other works of the “Generation 1933” premiered in the mid-1970s – ­Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs and Kilar’s Kościelec 1909– heralded a radical change of thinking, a departure from the avant-garde and a return to neo-Romantic types of expression, to melody and the euphony of sound. Penderecki stressed in an interview with Jakub Haufa that in his Concerto the stylistic change resulted from the purpose of the composition. It was written for violinist Isaac Stern, a representative of the so-called Russia