Krzysztof Penderecki / Jonny Greenwood album

Jonny Greenwood shed some light on his collaboration with famous Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

The news of Radiohead guitarist releasing a collaborative album with Polish composer came in September of 2011, and now it’s already known that the LP is due out on March 13 via Nonesuch Records. You may pre-order it from label’s official web store.

The LP consists of two parts: first features Penderecki’s works from 1960s, Polymorphia and Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, and the second part includes Greenwood’s Popcorn Superhet Receiver, inspired by Penderecki’s Threnody, and 48 Responses to Polymorphia, inspired by Polymorphia, correspondingly.

Bits from Popcorn Superhet Receiver were used in the score for a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, There Will Be Blood. The OST was also composed by Jonny Greenwood.

Works on Penderecki / Greenwood album have started in autumn of 2011 in Poland, where AUKSO orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki and Marek Moś, played 48 Responses to Polymorphia for the first time. On March 22, the orchestra is set to play the album in its whole in London’s Barbican Hall.

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia album’s full tracklist is as follows:
01. Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
02. Popcorn Superhet Receiver: Part 1
03. Popcorn Superhet Receiver: Part 2 A
04. Popcorn Superhet Receiver: Part 2 B
05. Popcorn Superhet Receiver: Part 3
06. Polymorphia
07. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Es ist Genug
08. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Ranj
09. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Overtones
10. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Scan
11. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Baton Sparks
12. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Three Oak Leaves
13. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Overhang
14. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Bridge
15. 48 Responses to Polymorphia: Pacay Tree