Jonny Greenwood's debt to Penderecki is clearly acknowledged in this pairing of the two composers' works. Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima establishes the tone, its shrill discords ...

Popcorn Superhet Receiver Marek Mos, Conductor AUKSO Orchestra Jonny Greenwood, Composer 48 Responses to Polymorphia AUKSO Orchestra Marek Mos, Conductor Jonny Greenwood, Composer Threnody for the ...

Greenwood: 'In Radiohead we think of ourselves as arrangers, and we'll use whatever we can to make that arrangement work' Yet one of the most startling moments in Polymorphia arrives at its conclusion ...

At the Contemporanea-Rassegna di Musica Nuova Festival, the audience was treated to Krzysztof Penderecki’s Polymorphia, as well as Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s musical answer – 48 Responses ...

Krzysztof Penderecki composed “Polymorphia,” for 48 string instruments, in 1961. It pushes the strings’ sonic abilities to modernist limits: squeaks, wails, mutterings, and growls, an idiom of noise ...

Back in September, we reported that Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and legendary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki were making an album together. That self-titled LP is now set for release ...

This past weekend in Wroclaw, Poland, both Radiohead multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood and enigmatic electronic eminence Aphex Twin debuted new orchestral works alongside the hard-to-spell Polish ...

Consequence of Sound points to live video from Aphex Twin and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's performances in Poland this weekend. The pair were celebrating avant-garde Polish composer Krzysztof ...

Hymne an den heiligen Daniel Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer Antoni Wit, Conductor Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra Polymorphia Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer ...

"I had to develop some new techniques to produce this kind of sound, using different kids of vibrato," Penderecki explains, down the phone from Kraków. "Using the tailpiece to play on with the double ...