Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki was one of the more adventurous and radical composers of the 20th Century. Now he’s written a piece that sounds like it could be Mahler or Brahms. “It is, though, a curious state of affairs when the composer who, more than any other, was identified with that scandalous way of writing should become the one who most saliently repudiates it.” – Sunday Times (London)