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  • Composer:Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Original title: Per Slava na wiolonczelę solo
  • year of completion: 1986
  • instrumentation: cello solo
  • commission: Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch (Paris)
  • Dedication: To Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Duration: 6'02''
  • Genre/form: miniature
  • category: instrumental music, works for solo instrument
  • musician: Andrzej Bauer (cello)
  • Producer: Polskie Radio S.A.
  • Production year: 1988
  • quality: good
  • Premiere: Paris, 1986, participants of the 3ème Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch
  • Discography: "Cello XX", Wen-Sinn Yang – cello, Arts Music, 2005; "Krzysztof Penderecki: Musica da camera", Ivan Monighetti – cello, Wergo, 1994; "Boris Pergamenschikow Violoncello Solo", Boris Pergamenschikow – cello, Aulos Records, 2011
Penderecki composed Per Slava in 1985-1986, as a commission from the Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris, and it was to the patron of that competition – Mstislav, or Slava – that the composer dedicated his piece. It was one of several small-scale works written by Penderecki in the 1980s between his larger-scale compositions for large performing forces.

Brief though it may be, Per Slava is by no means a trifle as far as its artistic weight is concerned. The arrangement of the anagram notes B-A-C-H with which the narration opens foreshadows the serious nature of the whole. The piece is devoid of sonoristic sound effects of the kind Penderecki had demonstrated years before in his early string quartets. In Per Slava, the performer faces an altogether different kind of challenge: notation without bar lines introduces metro-rhythmic freedom. The way the cellist allows the music to “flow” through his instrument determines the interpretation of the piece, and tests his ability to contribute to the composition in a meaningful manner. 

The piece opens with lyrical “whispers” that create an illusion of polyphony even before the texture becomes denser through the use of double notes. Now the difficulty mounts, with sequences of tiny rhythmic values, demanding sound figures and four-tone harmonies, and begins to develop into an absorbing narrative, which dramatically descends back towards the initial Lento.

The outstanding harmonic and melodic material of this composition has been used for an equally ingenious jazz arrangement, presented as part of a larger project in 2002 by an international band including the Oles brothers. The jazz version was performed during the Jazz Era concerts entitled Penderecki… Jazz under the composer’s honorary patronage, and recorded by the Contemporary Quartet (Not Two, 2002). The arrangements of this and two other works by Penderecki restored the composer to some extent to the world of jazz.


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