Commissioned by the 23rd Chopin and Friends Festival and premiered in New York City in 2021, this string quartet by Zaid Jabri serves as a tribute to Zaid’s mentor, Krzysztof Penderecki, who passed away in 2020. The composition explores various timbres with the string quartet through extended techniques while maintaining elements like melody, harmony, and polyphony in a concise duration. It aims to capture the evolution in Penderecki’s music, from sonorism to neo-romanticism. In 2023, “Prelude and Adagio” received the Special Prize Piero Pezzé for “Composition for chamber instrumental group” in the XIV International Composition Competition “Città di Udine,” organized by Taukay Edizioni Musicali.