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Henryk Górecki, Composer
Much like his better-known contemporary Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933), Polish composer Henryk Górecki (1933-2010) first achieved fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a darling of the European avant-garde spearheaded by Pierre Boulez, only to abandon their intellectual asceticism, and instead strive during the 1970s toward a more personal idiom that often seems to embrace deep sorrow as a catharsis for healing. Upon his abandonment of post-Webern serialism in favor of a simpler and more d...
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Recording Date:
Fri 8 Jul 2011
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Lento e largo, tranquillissimo (9:04)
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Fri 25 Mar 2011
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Quartet for Strings no 1, Op. 62 "Already it is Dusk" (16:10)
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Mon 6 Jun 2005
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Twoja czesc, chwala (5:01)
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Henryk Górecki's serene choral music provides the perfect balm for busy, disjointed lives. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
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by Tom Huizenga
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Henryk Górecki's serene choral music provides the perfect balm for busy, disjointed lives.
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Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s debut collection, Rhizoma, came out late last year on Innova . This minimalistic yet lush, desolate ye...
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Henryk Górecki While I was out of town in Ojai, correspondent and man about time Ben Vanaman caught the concluding performance of the Los Angeles...
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