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Kent Nagano / Goteborgs Symfoniker

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Kent Nagano performs Pendereckis monumental masterpiecethe composer was in attendancefollowing his sudden passing on March 29, 2020. The sound was simply incredible, and the performance was deeply moving!SACD hybrid disc. Krzysztof Penderecki passed away on March 29, 2020, at the age of 86. He was a composer with deep ties to Japan through his masterpiece, Elegy for the Victims of Hiroshima. His music is what is often referred to as contemporary music; he pioneered the tone cluster techniquein which all notes within a given interval are played simultaneouslyand had a profound influence on 20th-century composers. This sound is heard not only in the classical music world but also today as sound effects in horror films and suspense thrillers.Pendereckis St. Luke Passion was composed over a period of three years, beginning in 1963three years after Elegy for the Victims of Hiro