As Penderecki himself admitted, it was no easy task for a Polish composer to write a piano concerto in the shadow of Chopin. Yet in 2006 he completed his Resurrection Concerto. Bound to Penderecki by a long-standing friendship, Mūza Rubackytė presents a live recording with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Keri-Lynn Wilson. For nearly a decade, the pianist has championed this monumental, powerful, and tormented score, whose melodic richness, bell-like sonorities, and dramatic intensity reflect the unique imagination of a composer marked by war, inspired by faith, and guided by humanism.

As a complement, the Ciaccona in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II, arranged for solo piano, illustrates once again this art of reconciling memory and modernity, where, as Mūza Rubackytė remarks, “the expression of beauty never stops going back and forth between yesterday and today ”.