Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (Composer)
Born: 6th December 1933, Czernica, Poland
Died: 12th November 2010, Katowice, Poland
Nationality: Polish
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. His Webernian-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and drew influence from Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki. He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid-1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No.
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Recording of the Week,
Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 4
22nd January 2016
David listens to the world-premiere recording of Henryk Górecki's fourth and final symphony, with Andrey Boreyko and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Obituary,
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
15th November 2010
All Works: Gorecki
- Amen, Op. 35 (5)
- Beatus Vir, Op. 38 (4)
- Blessed Raspberry Songs, Op. 43 (1)
- Broad waters (1)
- Cantata for organ, Op. 26 (1)
- Canticum Graduum, Op. 27 (1)
- Concerto for Harpsichord and String Quartet (2)
- Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, Op. 40 (6)
- Concerto Notturno na skrzypce i orkiestrę smyczkową (1)
- Concerto-Cantata, Op. 65 (2)
- Euntes Ibant et Flebant, Op. 32 (4)
- Five Kurpian Songs, Op. 75 (4)
- Four Preludes for Piano, Op. 1 (1)
- Fragments (3) of Stanisław Wyspiański, Op. 69 (1)
- From Church Songs (1)
- Good Night, 'In Memoriam Michael Vyner', Op. 63 (4)
- Intermezzo (2)
- Kantata, Op. 26 (2)
- Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka, Op. 66 (10)
- Lerchenmusik (5)
- Little Fantasia, Op. 73 (1)
- Lobgesang, Op. 76 (2)
- Miserere, Op. 44 (4)
- O Domina nostra, Op. 55 (1)
- Old Polish Music (Muzyka Staropolska), Op. 24 (3)
- Pieśni Maryjne, Op. 54 (1)
- Radiating Brightness. Little Mystery (1)
- Refrain for orchestra (1)
- Salve, Sidus Polonorum, Op. 72 (1)
- Sanctus Adalbertus Op.71 (1)
- Sonata for 2 Violins, Op. 10 (3)
- Sonatina w jednej czesci (Sonatina in one movement), Op. 8 (1)
- Songs (2) of Juliusz Słowacki, Op. 48 (1)
- Songs (2), Op. 42 (1)
- Songs (3) of Maria Konopnicka, Op. 68 (1)
- String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62 'Already it is dusk' (7)
- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64 'Quasi una fantasia' (5)
- String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 '...songs are sung' (5)
- Symphony No. 2, Op. 31, 'Copernican' (4)
- Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (30)
- Symphony No. 4 (1)
- Three dances, Op. 34 (4)
- Three Pieces in the Old Style (13)
- Three Songs, Op. 3 (1)
- Toccata for Two Pianos, Op. 2 (1)
- Totus Tuus, Op. 60 (36)
- Trio concerto for clarinet, horn, piano and string orchestra (1)
- Trio Titanic for clarinet, horn and piano (1)
- Two Sacred Songs, Op. 30 (1)
- Two Tristan Postludes and Chorale op. 82 (1)
- Uśnijże, mi uśnij (1)
- Valentine Piece for solo flute and little bell, Op. 70 (1)
- Variations for Violin and Piano, Op. 4 (1)
- Wislo moja, 'My Vistula', Op. 46 (1)
- Zan Tontemiquico (1)
- Zdrowaś bądź Maryja (No. 3 from Five Marian Songs, Op. 54) (1)
