3 Pieces in Olden Style

1. Pieces (3) in the Olden Style, for string orchestra
Composed by Henryk Gorecki
Conducted by Karol Teutsch

2. Symphony, No 3, Op 36 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs")
Composed by Henryk Gorecki
Performed by Katowice Polish Radio Orchestra & Chorus with Stefania Woytowicz

3. Amen for chorus, Op 35
Composed by Henryk Gorecki

3 Pieces in Olden Style,Gorecki,Teutsch,Warsaw National Orch.,Olympia,Classical,Classical Music

Average customer rating: Beautiful music! Among the greatest Classical compositions Dark poetry; tragic exuberance! Sorrow wrapped in radiance When sorrow becomes exquisite beauty...

Górecki: Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"); Three Olden Style Pieces Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music $6.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Instrumental | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Górecki: Beatus Vir / Symphony No. 2 Górecki: Miserere Henryk Górecki: Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62) (1988) / Quasi una Fantasia (String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64) (1990-91) - Kronos Quartet Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs" Arvo Pärt Sanctuary ASIN: B0000013YW Release Date: 1994-06-28

Tracks:

1. Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs): Lento - Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
2. Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs): Lento e largo - Tranquillisimo
3. Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs): Lento - Cantabile semplice
4. 3 Olden Style Pieces: I
5. 3 Olden Style Pieces: II
6. 3 Olden Style Pieces: III

Amazon.com

The current Schwann catalog lists nine versions of Górecki's phenomenally popular Symphony 3 (Sorrowful Songs) composed in 1976. During his early career, Górecki embraced serialism and concentrated on instrumental sonorities in the vein of Messiaen. But in Symphony 3, his atonality disappears into a strategy of gently mounting thematic pitches, taking the strings through all possible registers. All three movements are marked lento, rare for any symphony. The Elektra Nonesuch recording has tended to be the bestseller, but give this Naxos release a try--it's just as good. The sound is excellent and the performances are above reproach. --Paul Cook

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful music!.......2007-05-19

"Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" is one of the most beautiful music pieces ever composed! If you can listen carefully, and let yourself be swept up by the piece, you will be very effected! While listening to the music, my heart started racing at one point, and I felt flushed from the reaction to the music! Beautiful!

Among the greatest Classical compositions.......2006-12-07

It is rare when a composition has consistent appeal from beginning to end and one with such quality makes Gorecki's Symphony #3 a very rare find.
The beginning is unusually understated. For those with home theaters or a bass speaker, it will heighten the beauty of the string instruments. At a moderate volume, the introduction can vibrate the house. The first movement has a slow crescendo that cumulates to a very profound point. The second and third movements have such emotional beauty that I can justifiably claim that the vocal soloist is seraphic and sublime and it is as close to angelic singing that mortals can achieve. As one who does not care for opera, I want to stress that this music is not like opera in any way . For those who enjoy Beethoven's 9th, Ode to Joy, or In Trutina from Carmina Burana, this symphony can't disappoint.

Dark poetry; tragic exuberance!.......2005-12-20

Poland has been always a land of courageous and untamed spirit; stubborn to any single bit of domination. This territory has given sublime artists. Gorecki is one of the last exponents; even he was born just in the final of the WW2.

His famous Third Symphony is widely known all around the world and constituted definitively a mass phenomena, its consecration and full acceptation. Gorecki employed an admirable sense of the musical texture inviting us to imagine an enormous birch's forest with astonishing austerity of means economy in what orchestration concerns. This music suggests me the kaleidoscopic awakening of slept centuries under the history 's carpet. Ancestral sorrows, delirious visions with that contemplative gaze in the mirror 's memory. In this Christmas, it is a magnificent chance to listen it once more.

This is possibly the most idiomatic version recorded until this date. Wit made no concessions of any kind. The reading is marvelous and heartfelt; emotion and epic have been magnificently blended and besides, supported by an inspired ensemble. Zofia Kilanowicz is simply bewitching as Soprano. The Second Movement is perfect.

Go for this spelling recording.

Sorrow wrapped in radiance.......2005-11-26

I can't waste time comparing versions, as I have only heard the other bargain version with the same soprano, which lacks the lusciousness of this CD in my humble opinion. I see no reason to look beyond this version anyway, which is a sublime offering from artists clearly steeped in the emotional heartland it surveys.

Others have said it all, this is music (and indeed a performance) that elicits tears on almost every listen. To a Buddhist as myself, who can see unresolved suffering and sorrow even on the faces of those encountering temporal happiness, this music is a vivid portrayal through sound of our human birthright of disquiet and dissatisfaction, which can be transformed only through connection with our divine nature. Compassion, which can only be generated through our encounters with suffering - how can we hope to wish others to be free of it if we have never met it face-to-face? - radiates from this CD from opening note to close.

The review below that gave this album 5 stars, but only because of the performance, rather than the music itself, is one of the most pathetic offerings I have seen among Amazon reviews. How can any performance be divorced from the piece itself? To compare this glorious piece of music with a relaxation tape merely highlights the ignorance of the reviewer. Did you actually LISTEN to this album? I doubt it!

THERE ARE FEW 'CLASSICAL' OFFERINGS THAT OFFER THE EMOTIONAL RANGE OF THIS CD. IT STANDS AS A LANDMARK OF BOTH 20TH CENTURY COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE - A MUST BUY!

When sorrow becomes exquisite beauty..........2005-11-18

I own several other recordings of the haunting "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs", a masterpiece which doesn't need the explanatory "modern" in front of it. Górecki's works have aroused intense criticism from some music critics who feel that modern music must eschew lyricism, cease to be enslaved to the major/minor tonality of the "past", and tread bravely into the waters of atonality, arhythmicality, and a-beauty.

But music is primarily audio rather than intellectual. It is there to be listened to, which means that AT LEAST one of the criteria for music ought to be how it sounds. It's all very well creating an incredibly clever tone row and patting oneself on the back for writing a concerto for a gravedigger's spade, an electric blender and a toilet being flushed, but who is going to listen to such a work, over and over? A hundred years from now, it will probably be rightly regarded as a curiosity rather than anything else.

Górecki has composed some works which are so extraordinary that the listener is spellbound, mesmerised by the almost elegaic quality of it. Is it non-intellectual? By no means! It is a strange point of view which considers intellectual quality to be discerned only as the inverse of listenability.

There are, of course, several recordings of this remarkable work currently available. All of them are good. But this one... well, it's beyond good, because the singer, soprano Zofia Kilanowicz, is so immersed in the words, and immerses the listener so completely into the words, that the heartbreak becomes our own. We feel as never before the terrible pity of it - Mary in front of the cross; the words of the young girl written on the wall; the woman looking for the body of her son fallen in battle. It is no shame to weep in listening to this recording, because the sorrow transcends the personal, although it never becomes LESS than personal. But it reaches out to touch the core of human understanding. This is a lament for all loss, all death, all grief, all injustice. It is simply... heartbreaking... and very, very beautiful.

That a listener is able to come away with a sense of hope as well as intense grief is due to the music, which shimmers and shines in the dark places of the heart.

Other versions of this work, while lovely, do not have the same plangent quality as this. I was surprised that I did not feel more intensely when listening to the Susan Gritton recording of this, as I consider her a superb singer with a wonderfully expressive quality, but strangely she did not quite achieve the colour of tears that the work requires. The Yvonne Kenny recording is lovely, but it's more about sound than meaning. I can feel Yvonne Kenny being careful about making the right sounds - I DON'T feel her twisting my heart with the meaning. The Dawn Upshaw recording is lovely but bland in comparison, as well.

In every respect - the incredibly cheap price, the exquisite orchestral playing, the wonderful singing - this is the version to have.

Average customer rating: Outstanding. A classic. Pay not attention to the crab behind the curtain This is incredible. Arrogant but incredible not a rave Pieces in a peaceful style.

Pieces in a Modern Style Samuel Barber , Ludwig van Beethoven , John Cage , Ferry Corsten , Henryk Gorecki , George Frideric Handel , Pietro Mascagni , Maurice Ravel , Erik Satie , Andre (aka ATB) Tanneberger , Antonio Vivaldi , and William Orbit Manufacturer: Maverick ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pavanes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ravel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Satie | Satie, Erik | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Vivaldi | Vivaldi, Antonio | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Best of Strange Cargos Strange Cargo Strange Cargo 1, 2 & 3 Strange Cargo III Remasterpiece ASIN: B000046S1W Release Date: 2000-02-22

Tracks:

1. Adagio For Strings
2. In A Landscape
3. Ogive Number 1
4. Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo
5. Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
6. L'Inverno
7. Triple Concerto
8. Largo From Xerxes
9. Piece In Old Style I
10. Piece In Old Style III
11. Opus 132

Tracks:

1. Adagio For Strings: Ferry Corsten Remix
2. Adagio For Strings: ATB Remix

Amazon.com

William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style is an ambient album that rejigs 11 works by classical composers in a particularly tacky fashion. Even though Orbit has proved his mettle as an innovative and exciting producer for others--Blur's 13 and Madonna's Ray of Light--this is an ungainly meeting of the sublime and the absurd that, frankly, doesn't work. Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," Ludwig van Beethoven's "Triple Concerto," Henryk Gorecki's "Piece in the Old Style I," and Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Inverno" are four that unfortunately meet their maker in a crude pileup of flat, belching synths and wallpaper flourishes. If he had combined live instrumentation with a playful reverence for the arcane glories of the past, perhaps he could have managed to make reality out of that most elusive of notions: experimental music that actually sells. However, Orbit fails to do anything more than resemble a second-rate Vangelis. --Maxine Kabuubi

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding. A classic........2007-06-06

I have been working in electronic music for almost 20 years years. I have a massive library of music for almost any reason, mood and itch. Tonight, I am taking the five minutes to stop and write how unique, amazing and consistently refreshing this album is everytime I go back to it since the day it was released.

Highly Melodic, very electronic and overall lacking the percussive elements most have come to know when listening to Orbit.

Much more sophisticated than the average listener might appreciate.Consider it a staple for anyone serious about electronic music.

I believe anyone rating this poorly is looking for a pop appeal that you just won't find here, thankfully.

Pay not attention to the crab behind the curtain.......2006-06-22

I don't know who Maxine Kubabi is. She's certainly untitled to her opinion. An "ungainly meeting of the sublime and the absurd?" What a sublimely empty and inadequate statement.

You have to know something about a genre before you can be an effective critic inside it. You should be able to specify why you don't like something in some detail, rather than resort to crabby nebulousities ... that's greasy kid stuff.

What Orbit has done is to realize some old, familiar works in an electronic medium, using smooth and musical strokes. He's taken many big chances. Some of them worked out well, others not as well as one might hope. But he deserves kudos for taking a risk and for making some of it work.

Why would anyone who *likes* electronic music complain that it doesn't have live instrumentation? That's like complaining that jazz has no rock and roll in it. "Reverence"? "Second rate Vangelis"? so: you were disappointed that Orbit didn't create more of the kind of schmaltz you personally like. Yanni, anyone?

For those who actually like electronic music, and like Beethoven's Opus 132, please, give that track a listen. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

This is incredible. Arrogant but incredible.......2006-05-26

I have been a fan William Orbit since Water from a vine leaf and I have to admit while this ins't exactly a electronica per se it is still amazing to see what he has done with our classics. The listening experience depends solely on the listener. More ambient than anything else I have heard though.

Recommended for William orbit and curious georges

not a rave.......2006-02-04

If you're looking for something to pop in late at night to dance to...this is not the album. This album is eery and some of it is painful. It's not full of upbeat electronics like originally thought it would be. But, I love it. It's great to listen to while just thinking...relaxing...reading...it's beautiful.

Pieces in a peaceful style........2005-11-28

Being a fan of ambient and electronica for some time, I decided to give this a try. I can understand how some may simply hear this as a cheesy reworking of the classics, just a man and his keyboard, but it's really much deeper than that if you just sit and listen. I suggest not comparing to the originals as much as enjoying what these pieces are themselves. A few tracks do lag, and there are quiet spots, but as a whole I find "Pieces In A Modern Style" to be almost hypnotic, and as I said in my review title, rather peaceful. The tracks I prefer the most are "Adiago For Strings", "Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo", "L'Inverno", and the music-box sounding "Triple Concerto". However the others are fine as well. I say, if you think you might like this, you probably will. It's well worth the used price if nothing else.

Average customer rating:

Gorecki: Concerto for Piano and Strings Three Pieces in Old Style / Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony / Kilar: Orawa / Szymanowski: Etude in B Flat Minor / Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra Grazyna Bacewicz , and Amadeus Chamber Orchestra Manufacturer: Conifer ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Szymanowski | Szymanowski, Karol | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Harpsichord | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000024DX Release Date: 1995-02-14

Tracks:

1. Concerto For Piano And String Orch.
2. Concerto For Piano And String Orch.
3. Three Pieces In Old Style
4. Three Pieces In Old Style
5. Three Pieces In Old Style
6. Orawa
7. Etude In B Flat Minor
8. Concerto For String Orchestra: Allegro
9. Concerto For String Orchestra: Andante
10. Concerto For String Orchestra: Vivo
11. Chamber Symphony: Largo
12. Chamber Symphony: Allegro Molto
13. Chamber Symphony: Allegretto
14. Chamber Symphony: Largo
15. Chamber Symphony: Largo

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H.Gorecki-Symphony No.3:Three Pieces in the Olden Style-Amen For Choir Manufacturer: olympia ProductGroup: Classical Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000K2OATA

Product Description

Three Pieces in Olden Style for string orchestra 1.First Piece 2.Second Piece 3.Third Piece Symphony No.3-The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs for soprano and orchestra 4.Song No.1-Lento,sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile 5.Song No.2-Lento e largo 6.Song No.3-Lento cantabile semplice 7.Amen-for choir

Average customer rating: And in the beginning....

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Symphony No. 1 / Chorus I / Three Pieces in the Old Style Henryk Gorecki , Roland Bader , and Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra Manufacturer: Koch Schwann (Germ.) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001SPG Release Date: 1993-12-21

Tracks:

1. Symphony No. 1, Op. 14: I. Introduktion
2. Symphony No. 1, Op. 14: II. Anthphone
3. Symphony No. 1, Op. 14: III. Choral
4. Symphony No. 1, Op. 14: IV. Lauda
5. Chorus I, Op. 20
6. Three Pieces In The Old Style: I.
7. Three Pieces In The Old Style: II.
8. Three Pieces In The Old Style: III.

Customer Reviews:

And in the beginning...........2004-09-06

Henryk Gorecki (Polish, born 1933) is a contemporary composer of great significance. A contemporary of Penderecki, his fame suddenly skyrocketed some years back with the "discovery" of his almost unbearably beautiful Third Symphony - 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'. After the adulation following performances and especially the CD recording by David Zinman, the Sinfonietta with Dawn Upshaw as the incandescent soloist, his works drifted into the 'festival only' category. Then the brilliant Second Symphony 'The Copernican', which calls upon soprano and baritone soloists and very large chorus, began being played in European Concert Halls. It seemed as though the written word and addition of vocalists were needed for listeners to untangle Gorecki's power. But just listen to this superb recording of the First Symphony (1959) and the seeds of all the aural manipulations that make his music great are here - orchestrally, without the added voice. Scored for strings, percussion, piano and harpsichord, Gorecki weaves his mystery with massive chordal progressions, extreme variations in dynamics, rhythms, and enthralling juxtapositions of the pulled sounds of the drawn strings against the hammered declarations of the variety of percussive instruments. There is great mystery here, great moments of sound clouds that are harbingers of works to come. Also on this excellent recording are performances of 'Choros I', a work for strings alone which suggests in the broadly spaced tone clusters that evolve into larger forms, a work which feels like the genesis of his popular Third Symphony, and finally, in homage to old Polish folksongs this CD offers a performance of the exquisitely beautiful 'Three pieces in the Old Style' - and equally as haunting as Ives' 'Three Places in New England.' In all this is a well-recorded disc with Roland Bader conducting the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra.

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An I Fiamminghi Collection Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Corigliano | Corigliano, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Hovhaness, Alan | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Kancheli | Kancheli, Giya | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Part | Part, Arvo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Trumpet | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Concertos | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Concertos | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003D6I Release Date: 1997-09-23

Tracks:

1. Celestial Gate: Prayer Of Saint Gregory, For Trumpet
2. Fratres
3. Creations To Music: Elegy For Orchestra
4. Three Pieces In Old Style, Good Night, Kleines Requiem: Three Pieces In Old Style For String Orchestra - First Piece
5. Three Pieces In Old Style, Good Night, Kleines Requiem: Three Pieces In Old Style For String Orchestra - Second Piece
6. Three Pieces In Old Style, Good Night, Kleines Requiem: Three Pieces In Old Style For String Orchestra - Third Piece
7. Music of Peteris Vasks: Musica Dolorosa
8. Light Sorrow For Voices And Orchestra: Mourned By The Wind

Average customer rating: A Mixed Bag?

Górecki: Three Pieces/Kleines Requiem/Good Night Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Henryk Gorecki: String Quartet No. 3...songs are sung Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs" ASIN: B000003D1K Release Date: 1996-05-28

Tracks:

1. First Piece
2. Second Piece
3. Third Piece
4. I. Tranquillo
5. II. Allegro Impetuoso-Marcatissimo
6. III Allegro - Deciso Assai
7. Adagio - Cantabile
8. I. Lento (Adagio) - Tranquillo
9. II. Lento Tranquillissimo - Cantabilissimo
10. III. Lento - Largo; Dolcissimo

Customer Reviews:

A Mixed Bag?.......2002-04-21

The Three Pieces in Old Style that begin this album are quiet and tranquil little gems - with the second being just the slightest bit jaunty. They are absolutely lush and will enfold you into eight minutes of pure peace. The Little Requiem for a Polka is altogether more serious and sometimes disturbing, but at its heart is an ironic playfullness. It has drive and an impish character, especially in the third movement which faintly resembles rush hour a la Gershwin. The final Adagio-Cantabile is delectably somber. The Good Night Requiem that closes the program is so soft and indistinct that it is hard to believe that the only two instruments playing are an alto flute and a piano. The soprano solo is lovely and rounds out the disc nicely. Telarc's sound is, as usual, impeccable. This is mostly a disc full of gentle, meditative music (with the exceptions of two jolts from within the Kleines Requiem). If you enjoy the sleepy qualities of Hovhaness or Faure, but don't mind the sonorities of Bartok, then you will enjoy this collection of short pieces by Gorecki.

Average customer rating: Loveliness in the lines of sorrow

Gorecki: Symphony No3; Pieces Manufacturer: Tring ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008FWYP Release Date: 1996-10-01

Tracks:

1. Sym No.3: Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile - Susan Gritton
2. Sym No.3: Lento E Largo - Tranquillissimo - Cantabillisimo - Dolcissimo Legatissimo - Susan Gritton
3. Sym No.3: Lento - Cantabile Semplice, Opus 36 (Sym Of Sorrowful Songs) - Susan Gritton
4. Three Pieces In Old Style: Movt One - RPO/Yuri Simonov
5. Three Pieces In Old Style: Movt Two - RPO/Yuri Simonov
6. Three Pieces In Old Style: Movt Three - RPO/Yuri Simonov

Customer Reviews:

Loveliness in the lines of sorrow.......2006-05-09

Gorecki's Third Symphony is a work of great beauty, and such plangent sorrow that it speaks directly to the heart. This recording is a beautiful one, and has much to say for itself. The wonderful Susan Gritton is an outstanding soprano, and sings very beautifully here.

This recording is not, however, the best version available of the work. For that, I refer readers to the Naxos recording, in which everything combines to make a performance of such sweet and terrible sorrow that no listener could possibly remain unmoved.

I own this recording of the Gorecki, and also the Yvonne Kenny recording, the Dawn Upshaw recording and another with a soprano whose name I cannot recall. No matter - this is a lovely second recording to have, but there's no doubt about the best version at all.

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Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Górecki: Three Pieces in the Old Style; Baird: Colas Breugnon - Suite Manufacturer: EMI Records [All429] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Szymanowski | Szymanowski, Karol | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000DOE6 Release Date: 2001-01-09

Tracks:

1. Vln Con No.1, Op.35 - Konstanty Kulka
2. Vln Con No.2, Op.61 - Konstanty Kulka
3. Three Pieces In The Old Style: 1st Piece
4. Three Pieces In The Old Style: 2nd Piece
5. Three Pieces In The Old Style: 3rd Piece
6. Colas Breugon - Ste: Prld (Moderato)
7. Colas Breugon - Ste: Kantylena Milosna
8. Colas Breugon - Ste: Taniec I (Allegretto Poco Vivace Con Grazia)
9. Colas Breugon - Ste: Smutna Piesn (Molto Adagio, Dolce E Calmato)
10. Colas Breugon - Ste: Taniec II (Molto Moderato Con Grazia) - Polish CO/Jerzy Maksymiuk P
11. Colas Breugon - Ste: Postludium (Non Troppo Allegro Ma Energico)

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Violin Concertos 1 & 2 Szymanowski , Kulka , Maksymiuk , and Wit Manufacturer: EMI Classics Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Szymanowski: Symphonies #2-4, Harnasie, 2 Mazurkas, Concert Overture in E ASIN: B00006YX72 Release Date: 2003-04-08

Tracks:

1. Violin Concerto No.1, Op.35 - Konstanty Kulka
2. Violin Concerto No.2, Op.61 - Konstanty Kulka
3. 1st Piece - Polish Chamber Orchestra
4. 2nd Piece - Polish Chamber Orchestra
5. 3rd Piece - Polish Chamber Orchestra
6. Praeludium (Moderato) - Polish Chamber Orchestra
7. Kantylena Milosna (Larghetto Con Amore) - Polish Chamber Orchestra
8. Taniec I (Allegretto Poco Vivace Con Grazia) - Polish Chamber Orchestra
9. Smutna Piesn (Molto Adagio, Dolce E Calmato) - Polish Chamber Orchestra
10. Taniec II (Molto Moderato Con Grazia) - Polish Chamber Orchestra
11. Postludium (Non Troppo Allegro Ma Energico) - Polish Chamber Orchestra

Tracks:

1. Mandragora, Op.43 - Kazimierz Pustelak
2. Stabat Mater Dolorosa - Jadwiga Rappe
3. Qui Est Homo - Jadwiga Rappe
4. O Eja, Mater - Jadwiga Rappe
5. Fac Me Tecum - Jadwiga Rappe
6. Virgo Virginum Praeclara - Jadwiga Rappe
7. Christe, Cum Sit Hinc Exire - Jadwiga Rappe
8. I: Dwunastodzwieczna Cytaro/II: Jak Krzak Skarlaly - Jadwiga Gadulanka
9. Demeter, Op.37 Bis - Jadwiga Rappe

Track Listings:

1. 400 Years of Dutch Music
2. 400 Years of Dutch Music 6
3. 400 Years of Dutch Music 7
4. 400 Years of Dutch Music 9: Dutch String Quartets
5. 5 String Quartets
6. All Night Vigil
7. Annee De Pelerinage / Funerailles
8. Ballade, Opus 2 / Symphonic Poems
9. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18 No.3 & String Quartet No. 7 in F major ("Rasumovsky 1") Op. 59 No. 1
10. Beethoven: Trio in Bf Op97; Trios Op70

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