Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Conductor – Witold Rowicki; Orchestra – Warsaw National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Penderecki's stated intent with the composition was to "develop a new musical language". Penderecki later said, "It existed only in my imagination, in a somewhat abstract way." When he heard an actual performance, "I was struck by the emotional charge of the work ... I searched for associations and, in the end, I decided to dedicate it to the Hiroshima victims".
Conductor – Witold Rowicki; Orchestra – Warsaw National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Penderecki's stated intent with the composition was to "develop a new musical language". Penderecki later said, "It existed only in my imagination, in a somewhat abstract way." When he heard an actual performance, "I was struck by the emotional charge of the work ... I searched for associations and, in the end, I decided to dedicate it to the Hiroshima victims".
