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  | 100% Recommended by our customers. Label: Nonesuch Catalog: Music Release date: 1992-05-05 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0075597928228 Upc: 075597928228  Tip: compare prices with similar classical music CDs |
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| Album tracks: (3) |
 Lento - sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile | Lento e Largo - tranquillissimo - cantabillissimo - dolcissimo legatissimo | Lento - cantabile semplice Opus 36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) |
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| 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 |
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Written on July 6, 2007 Summary: Wonderful to work and cry by... Heard this in passing on an XM station - bought it immediatly! Love the work, very moving, actually even motivating. Wonderful composer with perhaps a deep, hurtful heart and experience. Need more composers with this passion (hopefully not the same experiences) Written on June 5, 2007 Summary: simfonija zalosnih pjesama Word "sorrowful" doesn't mean "zalostan". Symphony of sad songs would be much better translation of the symphony title. Please, listen this splendid piece of music. It magic works every time. Again, again and again... Written on May 17, 2007 Summary: Beautiful Music The music itself,is just wonderful. The symphony has been composed with such 'feeling,and the soprano Dawn Upshaw has a glorious voice. This C.D. is well worth a listen.Lea. Written on April 26, 2007 Summary: Suffering at its acme This symphony is poignant because it is the lamentations of three women. It is so rare to have the direct lamentations of three women, of women as for that. Most of the time such lamentations are indirect, captured through the eye and the pen of a man of some sort. Anne Franks are rare in this world. And Maries are just as little numerous. The first woman is this Mary herself expressing her sorrow on Jesus and his death. She wants to take over the wounds and the suffering. The second is the prayer of an eighteen year old girl in a gestapo cell in Poland where she must have lived her last days and hours, a prayer to the intercessor - Mary again - to help her live her death through. The third one is that of a mother who has lost her son to the war - we assume - or whatever any violent event and who thinks of her total state of forlornness that her life is going to be with no intercessor or accompanier for her to walk up to death, with no son anymore, not even a body, not event a grave, not even anything that could give some materiality to his existence, to her solace. Strange progression that then reminds us of the fact that the man-composer is the one telling us the story, unwrapping, unrolling and spreading out the three lamentations. Then the symphony reveals another story, another meaning. The admiration for both Jesus, the victim, and Mary, his mother. The immense communion in the serene and apprehensive suffering of the young woman standing on the threshold of victimized death, the man witness feeling horror surging up in his silent throat. And finally the man-composer disappearing in the last movement like the missing body of that boy taken away by a war or a revolution of some kind. Gorecki is able to recreate or rediscover the power of the compositions and singing of Hildegarde von Bingen. Entirely introspective, introvertly-oriented. The lamentation is addressed to the lamenting person herself. It is as if the whole horror of history was entirely contained in our own souls, minds and spirits, as if we were the alpha and the omega of the whole suffering plus every single moment of it in between, from this alpha to that omega self-contemplative lamentation. And her tears can become ours. And maybe we can share the deep gnawing evil of life for some transient moments. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne Written on March 25, 2007 Summary: Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs" This is a beautiful CD with music that floats in and out of my conciousness. Beautifully ethereal and suddenly dissonent and sad. Sometimes I have it on as background music and am suddenly awoken to the voice in the background calling me softly to attention, to presence. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1992-05-05 | 1994-11-15 | 1999-11-16 | 2000-02-01 | 1994-06-28 | 2001-04-17 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 0075597928228 | 0075597934823 | 0042281776427 | 0028944995824 | 0730099582223 | 0747313537525 |
| Upc | 075597928228 | 075597934823 | 042281776427 | 028944995824 | 730099582223 | 747313537525 |
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