For a fund drive during summer 1992, KCRW, the Santa Monica College public radio station, ordered 25 copies of a newly released Nonesuch recording of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 as a membership ...
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Thirty years ago, in May 1991, a symphony was being recorded at a sound studio in northwest London — Symphony No. 3 by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. An obscure work, first composed in 1970s ...
On November 29, 2014 Beth Gibbons of Portishead teamed up with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, to perform Henryk Górecki’s acclaimed 1977 symphony, ...
When radio stations started playing Henryk Górecki's Sym­phony no. 3, known as the Symphony of Sor­rowful Songs, it was reported that drivers would pull off the road because the haunting, mournful ...
Portishead singer Beth Gibbons’ concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony — a performance of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 — will be the focus of a live album due out in March. Domino will ...
Isabella Bywater’s production for ENO of Henryk Górecki’s popular Third Symphony is effective and affecting, with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya’s reading refreshingly unsentimental Henryk Górecki’s ...
Polish composer Henryk Gorecki died today at age 76. The news was announced this morning by the Polish National Radio Symphony. Gorecki was little known outside Poland until a 1992 recording of his ...
From its mesmerizing ebb and flow and the purity of the choristers' blend alone, you'd be forgiven for thinking this might be one of Henryk Górecki's many sacred choral works. There's a palpable air ...
Twenty years have passed since Polish composer Henryk Górecki became one of the most talked about figures in classical music. In 1992, his painfully beautiful Third Symphony, the "Symphony of ...
Polish composer Henryk Gorecki died today at age 76. The news was announced this morning by the Polish National Radio Symphony. Gorecki was little known outside Poland until a 1992 recording of his ...