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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0075597928228 Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: May 05, 1992 Studio: Nonesuch Sales Rank: 1579 MPN: 79282 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Discount Shopping essential recording: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - Superb! Deep and amazingly performedGorecki 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 sources of his inspiration. The music ... Read More Rating: - Polish lamentI 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 soulful prayer to the Holy Mother in the second movement. ... Read More Rating:  - Pink Floyd does betterThis 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 who know nothing about aforementioned composers or music, ... Read More Rating: - The very best of Minimalist Classical works!I can hardly say enough good things about Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs". Here are the essential details along with my personal evaluation of the overall work. Soprano: Dawn Upshaw Orchestra: London Sinfonietta Conductor: David Zinman Overview -- This symphony reeks of dark beauty and mystery. It is a Minimalist work of steady meter which harbors dark corners tenoned with some buoyant and prophetic interludes. This is an unusual composition, contemporary ... Read More Rating: - Excellent, poignant recordingI absolutely love this piece, and this (the original) is an excellent recording of it. Upshaw expresses the feeling of the music so wonderfully. I first heard this in concert with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and they had a video of the view from a helicopter or airplane flying along a beach. This music expresses the same peace and beauty and poignancy (for me at least) of dawn at the beach. Browse for similar items by category:
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