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1.Gorecki - Symphony No.3: Sorrowful Songs from: Nonesuch July 06, 1992
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I leave on the assumption that you are familiar with the work and looking at different recordings. I started out with this famous recording featuring Dawn Upshaw which actually made the Top 10 in Britain, if I remember correctly. I have come to prefer another recording, by Joanna Koslowska with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (though I never experienced the Upshaw version as flawed). I had become addicted to this music and had gone looking for alternative recordings; at times I owned five different ones. Now, this one and the Koslowska version are left. The main difference, I think, is in the rendering of the sorrowful songs. Upshaw presents the vocal parts as symphonic pieces, like arias. The Polish singer gives them a distinct ... Read More:

2.Górecki: Symphony No.3 by: Joanna Koslowska Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Kazimierz Kord October 16, 2000
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I leave on the assumption that you are familiar with the work and looking at different recordings. Like another reviewer, I also started out with the famous Dawn Upshaw recording which actually made the Top 10 in Britain, if I remember correctly. I, too, prefer this recording, even though I never experienced the Upshaw version as flawed. I simply became addicted to this music and went looking for alternative recordings; at times I owned five different ones. Now, this one and the Upshaw version are left. The main difference, I think, is in the rendering of the sorrowful songs as just that, as songs. Upshaw presents the vocal parts as symphonic pieces, like arias. The Polish singer gives them a distinct song-like air, which I find more ... Read More:

3.Górecki - Symphony No 3; Olden Style Pieces from: Naxos April 01, 1994
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The previous reviewer is right to say that any version of this symphony will be compared to the 1992 David Zinman/Dawn Upshaw interpretation. But to say that this Antoni Wit/Zofia Kilanowicz version is better is, in my opinion, incorrect. Rather, it offers a slightly different but equally valid interpretation. Whereas Zinman's has a clarity of line that is crisp and beautiful to behold, the Wit version is more lush. It has a greater depth but this does produce the occasional smudge. Wit produces a good balance between the high and low strings, but the joins between sections are not always seamless. For example, whilst Zofia Kilanowicz's singing is faultlessly beautiful, the return to the canon in the first movement produced no blaze of ... Read More:

4.Gorecki - Symphony No. 2; Beatus Vir from: Naxos February 26, 2001
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"Beatus Vir", 1979, after the election of Pope John Paul II, the first Polish Pope, the first non-Italian Pope for quite a long time. This fundamental work is supposed to express through some verses chosen in the Psalms the full confidence and trust of man in God. That was a time when Poland had to live through several difficult periods, and even one full decade of agitation, submission or resistance. The communist order was running on its very last leg and the road had not been paved lately, so the trip to the gate out of this pseudo-socialism was rough, chaotic and definitely full of discomfort and pain. This "Beatus Vir" expresses this atmosphere, this desire and dream that was no promise in 1979 though it was an absolute certainty. The choice of ... Read More:

5.O Magnum Mysterium from: Telarc April 04, 2001
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Listening to this recording is like sitting in a small gothic stone church in the South of France.The 12 works collected here span from the 16th century to the 20th century,but the performances,interpretations and acoustics make all of the music sound immediate and contemporary.The title text,translated as "O Great Mystery," is featured in three separate compositions by Victoria,Lauridsen and Poulenc.The mystery ostensibly deals with the incarnation,but these fresh but timeless,sensitive but vital,performances seems to lovingly embrace both heaven and earth.The words are specially Christian,but the music delicately exults in the universal dichotomies of temporal and eternal,real and ideal.Anyone familiar with choral literature from the Renaissance ... Read More:

6.Henryk Gorecki String Quartets No.1 & 2 by: Kronos Quartet March 01, 1993
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Having encountered the ubiquitous 3rd symphony, this was my next Gorecki purchase. The music is modern and challenging but all the more worthwhile for it. If you like string music of Nyman and Glass this won’t present too much of a challenge. The music is complex, plaintive and angry at the same time. 'Already It Is Dusk' being thoroughly modern 'Quasi una Fantasia' brooding and dangerous. Well worth the time and effort.

7.Henryk Gorecki: String Quartet No 3 by: Kronos Quartet March 19, 2007
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Having encountered the ubiquitous 3rd symphony, this was my next Gorecki purchase. The music is modern and challenging but all the more worthwhile for it. If you like string music of Nyman and Glass this won’t present too much of a challenge. The music is complex, plaintive and angry at the same time. 'Already It Is Dusk' being thoroughly modern 'Quasi una Fantasia' brooding and dangerous. Well worth the time and effort.

8.Górecki: Symphony No.3 from: Belart August 24, 1998
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I heard this for the first time on the recent BBC Auschwitz documentary, and then, by strange coincidence I seemed to hear it all over. I'm already a Gorecki fan, but this is now a firm favourite. It's sparse, coldly seductive and unbearably beautiful in places. After Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, other music seems syrupy. One listening is not enough.

9.Górecki; Pärt; Tavener - Choral Works from: Cfp November 06, 2006
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I heard this for the first time on the recent BBC Auschwitz documentary, and then, by strange coincidence I seemed to hear it all over. I'm already a Gorecki fan, but this is now a firm favourite. It's sparse, coldly seductive and unbearably beautiful in places. After Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, other music seems syrupy. One listening is not enough.

10.Górecki - Choral Works from: Nonesuch November 28, 1994
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I heard this for the first time on the recent BBC Auschwitz documentary, and then, by strange coincidence I seemed to hear it all over. I'm already a Gorecki fan, but this is now a firm favourite. It's sparse, coldly seductive and unbearably beautiful in places. After Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, other music seems syrupy. One listening is not enough.

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