Henryk Gorecki: A Nonesuch Retrospective
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Label: Nonesuch
Cat No: 7559794974
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 7
Release Date: 22nd January 2016
Contents
Works
Amen, op.35Broad waters, op.39
Euntes ibant et flebant, op.32
Good Night, 'In Memoriam Michael Vyner', op.63
Harpsichord Concerto, op.40
Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka, op.66
Lerchenmusik
Miserere, op.44
String Quartet no.1, op.62 'Already it is dusk'
String Quartet no.2, op.64 'Quasi una fantasia'
String Quartet no.3, op.67 '...songs are sung'
Symphony no.3, op.36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Symphony no.4, op.85 'Tansman Episodes'
Wislo moja, Wislo szara (My Vistula, grey Vistula), op.46
Artists
Dawn UpshawKronos Quartet
London Sinfonietta
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
Andrey BoreykoDavid Zinman
Works
Amen, op.35Broad waters, op.39
Euntes ibant et flebant, op.32
Good Night, 'In Memoriam Michael Vyner', op.63
Harpsichord Concerto, op.40
Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka, op.66
Lerchenmusik
Miserere, op.44
String Quartet no.1, op.62 'Already it is dusk'
String Quartet no.2, op.64 'Quasi una fantasia'
String Quartet no.3, op.67 '...songs are sung'
Symphony no.3, op.36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Symphony no.4, op.85 'Tansman Episodes'
Wislo moja, Wislo szara (My Vistula, grey Vistula), op.46
Artists
Dawn UpshawKronos Quartet
London Sinfonietta
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
Andrey BoreykoDavid Zinman
About
The recording of Symphony no.4, available both in the box and individually, was made during the 2014 world premiere performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall with co-commissioner London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko. The piece, which pays homage to Górecki’s fellow Polish composer Aleksander Tansman, was incomplete at the time of Górecki’s 2010 death and thus missed its previously scheduled premiere. However the score had precise indications for orchestration, which Górecki’s son Mikolaj, also a composer, used to complete it. The Daily Telegraph said the piece ‘caps Górecki's reputation as an orchestral composer, but it also contains some surprises. The music features some brutal juxtapositions of massively powerful music with slow, intimate passages for solo instruments, including prominent parts for piano and organ.’
Born in 1933, Henryk Górecki spent most of his life in southern Poland. He was a leading composer of the Polish avant-garde in the 1950s and later reached a worldwide audience in the 1990s thanks to the success of his Symphony No. 3. The work was composed in 1976, and was at that time shocking in its tonality and simplicity, but it was with the release of the 1992 Nonesuch recording of the piece, featuring Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta, that it attracted international attention, selling more than a million copies and climbing to the top of the classical music charts in both the US and the UK, where it is certified Platinum. On the unexpected popularity of the piece, the composer remarked, “Perhaps people find something they need in this piece of music... somehow I hit the right note, something they were missing. Something somewhere had been lost to them. I feel that I instinctively knew what they needed.”
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