CD, Gorecki (composer)
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Taylor plays a 1970s harpsichord built by the Parisbased maker Anthony Sidey. The instrument has a sturdy, gut-like quality that allows it to punch above the orchestra in Poulenc's concerto,... —
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Throughout, the Tippett Quartet are sympathetic and expert interpreters negotiating Gorecki’s soundworld with a strong sense of ensemble and making the most of the abundant contrasts of material... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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‘Already it is Dusk’ owes something to Bartókian tradition in its processing of folk elements from Górecki’s beloved Tatra mountains, while the prayer of its title, taken from a Polish renaissance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Chamber Choice
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Górecki: Symphony No.3 'Sorrowful Songs' & Pieces in Olden Style & Totus Tuus
Stefania Woytowicz (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wlodzimierz Kamirski, Krakow Philharmonic, Roland Bader, Krakow Choral Society,
Malgorzata Orawska
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Under its conductor of 40 years’ standing, Jan Łukaszewski, the Gdańsk-based Polish Chamber Choir produces a beautifully smooth and glowing tone. The overall effect is sweet, like eating too... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Górecki: Concerto-Cantata
Carol Wincenc (flute) & Anna Górecka (piano), Anna Górecka (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
The Concerto-Cantata (1992) receives its premiere recording here, and the Warsaw Philharmonic does it full justice, playing equally convincingly and intensely in the severe, concentrated slow... —
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this selection of arrangements for eight voices shows the group's undoubted vocal pedigree —
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Prize Winners
From the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music 2019 Vol. 6
Pavel Dombrovsky (piano), Piotr Pawlak (piano), Mateusz Krzyżowski (piano), Marta Gidaszewska, Robert Łaguniak, Gidaszewska/Łaguniak Duo, Ãtma Quartet, Cracow Golden Quintet
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Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Beth Gibbons
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki
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