Penderecki and Messiaen

I definitely know that I cannot afford to enjoy concert for now. But today was the day of Krzysztof Penderecki, a famous Polish composer, conducted the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Ueno. They performed his own Horn concerto, which was the first performance in Japan. There's no choice except participating in that. Almost the only title that I usually listen to his works is the Viola concerto, though, I pretty like it. I think that his music has rather predictable strain but remains modern sound. Rational as well as passionate, while many of the comtemporaly works are mostly rational but sometimes passionate. His new Horn concerto might be much of the mere idea, however. I felt that it's still a great work but could be more concise like his Sinfonietta per archi. The best performance of tonight must be the 'Interstellar Call' of Olivier Messiaen, which was played by Radvan Vlatkovic, the horn solist in the main program, as an encore and an eulogy of Kaoru Chiba died this week.