Jonny Greenwood and Krzysztof Penderecki record an album for Nonesuch

Jonny Greenwood and Krzysztof Penderecki have recorded an album together at Alvernia Studios, near Krakow, for release on Nonesuch Records. The sessions began on Monday 12 September, the day after Greenwood played Steve Reich at the opening concert of the Sacrum Profanum festival in Krakow, and took two days. The studio announced them on the day they began.

Filip Berkowicz, Sacrum Profanum's artistic director, is producing, and Poland's National Audiovisual Institute prepared the project.

The album will hold the Penderecki and Greenwood works from the Wroclaw concert at the European Culture Congress, where Greenwood's “48 Responses to Polymorphia”, his answer to Penderecki's Polymorphia, had its premiere on 9 September, three days before the sessions began. The two composers are joined by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, led by Marek Mos.