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‘Already it is Dusk’ owes something to Bartókian tradition in its processing of folk elements from Górecki’s beloved Tatra mountains, while the prayer of its title, taken from a Polish renaissance... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Chamber Choice
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Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
RecommendedDawn Upshaw (soprano)
London Sinfonietta, David Zinman
Górecki's Third Symphony has become legend. Composed in 1976, it's always had its champions and admirers within the contemporary music world, but in 1993 it found a new audience of undreamt-of... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2010
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Once again Paul Hillier and his Estonian choir provide a varied programme of new choral works by Baltic composers. Despite a wide gamut of styles, each composition has an immediacy that is not... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Choral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Gubaidulina: Alleluia & Gorecki: Miserere
Hedwig Rummel (contralto), Jørgen Ditlevsen (bass), Karl-Gustav Andersson (tenor), Peter Fog (baritone)
Copenhagen Boys' Choir, Danish National Choir/DR, Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Dmitri Kitajenko
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[the symphony] opens with brutal, relentless chords, disconcerting pauses and Kancheli-like violent dynamic contrasts. There's a degree of relief in gentle passages in intervening movements... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd January 2016
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Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 & Three Pieces in the Old Style
Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit
This disc seems a clear first choice. — More…
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Górecki: Concerto-Cantata
Carol Wincenc (flute) & Anna Górecka (piano), Anna Górecka (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
The Concerto-Cantata (1992) receives its premiere recording here, and the Warsaw Philharmonic does it full justice, playing equally convincingly and intensely in the severe, concentrated slow... — More…
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Special offer. Totus Tuus
Choral Music of Henryk Gorecki
National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer
the quality of the individual voices, their complete skill in the art of choral singing and the mature musicianship evident across the choir would make this exceptional in any context...my purely... — More…
