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Product Details EAN 0075597928228 Label Nonesuch Manufacturer Nonesuch Number Of Discs 1 Release Date May 05, 1992 UPC 075597928228 Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Disc 1: Lento - sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile Lento e Largo - tranquillissimo - cantabillissimo - dolcissimo legatissimo Lento - cantabile semplice Opus 36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) Product Description This album, which catapulted Polish composer Henryk Gorecki to into the international spotlight, takes texts born in pain and turns them into statements of affirmation through the use of music that ebbs and flows in mystic minimalism. The clear voice of soprano Dawn Upshaw, singing the Polish texts, is a large part of the success of this particular recording, but the music, contemporary without either dissonance or movie-music mawkishness, clarifies and uplifts the words. This is a moving and essential element of the modern repertoire. --Sarah Bryan Miller Customers who bought this item also bought Górecki: Miserere Tabula Rasa Alina - Arvo Pärt Górecki: Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"); Three Olden Style Pieces Górecki: Symphony No. 2 Copernican; Beatus Vir Customer Reviews for: Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 'Sorrowful Songs' Rating - sad, sad music I have only one complaint, and it might be a little nontraditional: the first movement of the symphony...I'd swear I've heard it in a war movie or the like...some sad scene on a battlefield strewn with soldiers' bodies and drifting smoke. For some reason, thinking this takes something away from the piece for me. Stupid, I know. But once you're past the first movement, it is stunning. And of course, w/o the Hollywood images rolling through my head, ... Read More Rating - Superb! Deep and amazingly performed Gorecki belongs to the Great Fours, as the group of composers of Polish contemporary music is called, and this piece is probably the most popular one. If someone was not familiar with for. ex. Pendercki, Gorecki is more likely to be recognized, even by people who are not much in love with classical music. Gorecki is rooted in tradition, religious mysticism and folk music of his native country. But he is not the prisoner of tradition or slave of the ... Read More Rating - Polish lament I am not a trained musician and cannot speak in such terms. However, I can speak to the emotion I felt as I listened to this music. I find this work particularly moving from the near silence of the beginning of the first movement to the plaintive prayer to Our Lady in the last. To me this is a piece of quiet power; the gradual crescendo of sound to Dawn Upshaw's first soaring soprano and gradual decrescendo to near silence in the first movement, the ... Read More Rating - Pink Floyd does better This is tripe. Do you love Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Bruckner, Mahler, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and Vaughan Williams? Well, you won't love this garbage. It is MUCH better to love the Beatles and Pink Floyd for what they honestly are. They are at least sincere and original art, in their sphere. This is a fraud on every level. It is properly used for backing tracks on bad movies and pop albums. It is music for callow youths ... Read More see more reviews See More Nonesuch products

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