Title : Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No.3 Opus 36
Author : Gorecki, Henryk
Release Date : 19920505
Binding : Audio CD
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Editorial Reviews : 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.
Buyer Reviews : This recording of the Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs always comes into mind whenever I want to gift a friend with truly meaningful music. Ever since it was first released this wondrous composition has held a high place in my collection. Quite simply stated, this is music so unfettered by dissection into School or Type that it comes as close if not closer to pure music as most works by the acknowledged masters. This Symphony No. 3 is an elegy and a eulogy and a series of sighs that translate the unspeakable suffering poets try to describe. In a seemless, pulsating, breathing series of three movements Gorecki has found the core of the soul and has shared that with us, in this case through the gifts of conductor David Zinman and soprano Dawn Upshaw.
Words cannot take you to the place that just listening can. I still find it difficult to believe that this work is rarely performed in the concert hall. This is the balm so needed in our world today, as much so as at the time the words of the mother of a holocaust victim sung here were written. A finer gift you could not give yourself ....or a friend.
