CD, Gorecki (composer)
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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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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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this selection of arrangements for eight voices shows the group's undoubted vocal pedigree —
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Throughout, the Tippett Quartet are sympathetic and expert interpreters negotiating Gorecki’s soundworld with a strong sense of ensemble and making the most of the abundant contrasts of material... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Beth Gibbons
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki
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HK$131.53 -
Górecki: Symphony No.3 'Sorrowful Songs' & Pieces in Olden Style & Totus Tuus
Stefania Woytowicz (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wlodzimierz Kamirski, Krakow Philharmonic, Roland Bader, Krakow Choral Society,
Malgorzata Orawska
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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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When Songs Are Sung: Gorecki, Knapik - Master and Apprentice
Sylwia Olszynska (soprano), Monika Sendrowska (soprano), Tomasz Rak (baritone), Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Maciej Tomasiewicz
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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... —
