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Music : Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
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Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs" from: Nonesuch List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $1.99 (12%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075597928228 Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: May 05, 1992 Studio: Nonesuch Sales Rank: 2625 MPN: 79282 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com 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 Customer Reviews
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 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. In the third movement where one might expect anger I heard the despairing lament and final quiet resolution. I do not speak Polish but am familiar with the sounds of the language. Dawn Upshaw sings with such clarity that I was able to follow ... 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, but want to pretend they are "cerebral" and "deep". It is "classical" music for people who want to translate the machinations of the pop world into a score for a real paid orchestra. Mr. Holland's "Opus" rates as high. I'm sure orchestras love ... 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 in nature, to which one progressively gravitates more each time it is heard. FIRST MOVEMENT -- Lento-Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabille (26:46) A moody canon builds from a metered bass rumble of strings to a plateau of ... 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. Rating: - A Short Review since the others say about all!Listening to the incredible 1st Movement,which begins in virtual silence, and slowly builds to an incredible crescendo of strings, then the solo vocal, and then the apocalyptic strings right after the vocal is almost beyond belief. Driving alone at night,full of stars, and listening to this almost may make one feel at one with the heavens. Amazing! PS There are many similarities to the later composed theme to the movie "Fearless"; Barber's "Adagio for Strings"; and many others, though this may be in a class by itself! |
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