Metamorphosen, Penderecki’s Second Violin Concerto, was written for the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter between 1992 and 1995. Drawing on the... more

The two most famous operas by Penderecki offer a dazzling contrast in style and subject. Where The Devils of Loudun,... more

“I was aiming for something that seemed unreachable”, said Penderecki of the St Luke Passion, a work written to mark... more

On 8 September, 1939, when Krzysztof Penderecki was just a few weeks shy of his sixth birthday, German forces took... more

Fifty two strings. Eight minutes. Thirty seven seconds. Completed in 1960, Krzysztof Penderecki’s Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima has... more

In the final episode of Jack's curated series, he charts the changing musical styles embraced by Penderecki across his career,... more

Jack celebrates Penderecki's score to a classic work of Polish cinema. We hear how Penderecki embraced a varied musical language... more

We explore how Penderecki found a world stage as a commissioned composer for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. We... more

We use Penderecki's A Polish Requiem to explore the volatile history of the Polish nation, and how this in turn... more

We explore the traumatic events of Penderecki's upbringing, growing up as a boy in Nazi-German-occupied Poland from the ages... more