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The National Audiovisual Institute is preparing a record for the American recording  label Nonesuch Records with works of Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) presented on Friday at the European Congress of Culture in Wrocław. The recording is made in Alvernia Studios.

Joint concerts of Krzysztof Penderecki, Aphex Twin and Jonny Greenwood were an unprecedented event organized by the National Audiovisual Institute of the European Congress of Culture. These performances are likely to mark their presence in the musical world, because Nonesuch Records, the American record label will release a record with the music of the Polish composer and the guitar-player of the British group Radiohead.

The Friday concert included  three works of Krzysztof Penderecki, dating from the beginning of 1960-ies, i.e. the ‘Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima’, ‘Canon for Strings’ and ’Polymorphia for Strings’. The last one, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, inspired Jonny Greenwood to write his ‘48 Responses to Polymorphia’, with its first ever performance in Wrocław. The record will also include ‘Popcorn Superhet Receiver’ inspired by Penderecki’s ‘Threnody’.

The record will be released by a legendary New York label Nonesuch, which worked with such artists as Björk, Ry Cooder, Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and took part in sound creation for such films as ‘Kodun’, ‘Requiem for a Dream’, ‘There Will Be Blood’ and ‘Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’.

The recording is made in our music scoring studio easily accommodating 100 musicians and able to produce all types of sound recordings, thanks to changeable acoustics, inter alia.

The composers will be accompanied by the AUKSO ensemble, one of the best chamber music orchestras in Europe, with graduates of the Katowice Academy of Music, led by Marek MoÅ›, a distinguished violinist, conductor and chamber musician.

The record is produced by Filip Berkowicz, artistic head of Sacrum Profanum, Misteria Paschalia and Opera Rara festivals and the curator of Penderecki’s concerts with  Aphex Twin and Greenwood at the European Congress of Culture.