Credo (Penderecki)
Credo | |
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by Krzysztof Penderecki | |
Text | Credo, from the Mass and additional texts |
Language | Latin, Polish, German |
Composed | 1997 | –98
Performed | 11 July 1998 |
2000 Grammy Award |
Credo is a large-scale sacred composition for soloists, children's choir, mixed choir and orchestra by Krzysztof Penderecki, completed in 1998. It was commissioned by Helmuth Rilling for the Oregon Bach Festival, where it was first performed on 11 July 1998. Penderecki expanded the liturgical text by hymns and Bible verses in Latin, Polish and German. A recording won the 2000 Grammy Award for best choral performance.
History
In 1996, Penderecki was commissioned by the choral conductor Helmuth Rilling to compose a mass, planned for performances at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival.[1] Penderecki began with writing the Credo which is central to the text, working from 1997 to 1998. It turned so large that it defied the original liturgical use, and became an independent work.[1]
Rilling conducted the first performance on 11 July 1998 in Eugene at the Oregon Bach Festival, with soloists Juliane Banse, Milagro Vargas, Marietta Simpson, Thomas Randle and Thomas Quasthoff, the Phoenix Boys Choir, and Oregon Bach Festival chorus and orchestra.[1] The same year, Rilling conducted national premieres in Russia, Poland and Germany.[1] Rilling conducted a recording which won the 2000 Grammy Award in the category best choral performance.[2]
It was published by Schott.[1] The composer conducted the work first for the Ukrainian premiere with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine at the Organ Music Concert Hall in Kyiv on 31 March 1999.[1] After many performances around the world,[1] he conducted it again in Kyiv at the 29th Kyiv Music Fest in 2018, marking the centenary of Polish independence.[3]
Text, structure and scoring
The Credo uses the Latin text of the Nicene Creed from the order of mass,[1] with added texts chosen by the composer.[4] Penderecki structured the work in seven movements:[1][5]
- I Credo
- II Qui propter nos homines
- III Et incarnatus est
- IV Crucifixus
- V Et resurrexit
- VI Et in Spiritum Sanctum
- VII Et vitam venturi saeculi
Added texts include at the end of the third movement verses from the hymn
The duration is given as one hour.
Recordings
Credo was recorded by the Warsaw Boys' Choir, the Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus and the
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Credo". Schott Music. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ "Helmuth Rilling". Grammy Awards. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ "Famous Polish composer marks Polish centenary in Kiev". polandin.com. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ a b Dervan, Michael (10 September 2010). "Penderecki: Credo; Cantata". The Irish Times. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Whitehouse, Richard. "Penderecki Credo" (PDF). Chandos Records. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ a b Wilson, Brian (October 2010). "Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933) / Credo (1998) / Cantata in honorem Almæ Matris Universitatis Iagellonicæ sescentos abhinc annos fundatæ (1964)". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ Hurwitz, David. "Penderecki: Credo/Wit". classicstoday.com. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
External links
- Krzysztof Penderecki- Credo In Unum Deum on YouTube
- The Years of Disarray 1908–1928 exhibition opened a spectacular concert by Krzysztof Penderecki artcome.eu 21 September 2018