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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Chamber Choice
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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... —
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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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Lisiecki’s strongest suit is the three pieces he has selected from Messiaen’s Huit Préludes pour piano, both from the beauty and sensitivity of the performances and for having resisted the temptation... —
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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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2010
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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. —
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Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 '…songs are sung', Sonata for Two Violins
John Mills (violin I), Jeremy Isaac (violin II), Tippett Quartet
[Sonata] playing is clean, crisp, and thoroughly enjoyable. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Recording of the Month
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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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd January 2016
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The quartets were commissioned by Kronos...but the Royal's performances rival them with playing that is passionate and sharp-edged, capturing the emotional depth and intensity of the music equally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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