2 is a sacred composition for soprano, women's choir and chamber orchestra by Krzysztof Penderecki, completed in 2018, setting the liturgical text Lacrimosa from the Requiem mass.
Penderecki wrote Lacrimosa No.
2 on a commission by the Pomeranian Philharmonic.
He set the liturgical text Lacrimosa from the Requiem mass which he had set first in his Polish Requiem,[1] for a soprano soloist, women's choir and chamber orchestra.
The world premiere was performed on 10 October 2018,[2] on the occasion of the unveiling of the Monument to the Victims of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939 [pl] in Toruń, Poland, by soprano Iwona Hossa [pl], the Chór Żeński Uniwersytetu Technologiczno-Przyrodniczego, and the Pomeranian Philharmonic, conducted by Kai Bumann..[3] It was published by Schott.