Silesian Quartet - Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: Complete Works for String Quartet (2025)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 543 Mb | Total time: 02:04:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos Records | # CHAN 20383(2) | Recorded: 2008, 2014
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 543 Mb | Total time: 02:04:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos Records | # CHAN 20383(2) | Recorded: 2008, 2014
The Gramophone Award-winning Silesian Quartet present a double-album of the complete works for string quartet by compatriot Henryk Gorecki. All three of his numbered string quartets were written late in life – the first in 1988 – and all three were commissioned by the Kronos Quartet. The First Quartet is a single-movement work, based on a sixteenth-century song by Wacław of Szamotuły. The Second, double the length of the First, is subtitled ‘quasi una fantasia’ and follows a classical four-movement form, subtly referencing Beethoven. Gorecki completed the Third Quartet (double the length of the Second!) after the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs had catapulted his music to much wider acclaim. It extends to five movements and is considered by many to be one of his greatest compositions. In the 1980s and 1990s, Gorecki composed several collections of choral songs. Five Kurpian Songs is based on folksongs from Kurpie, a region north-west of Warsaw. The composer himself suggested that these works would be effective when performed by a string quartet, and here the Silesian Quartet gives us the world premiere recording of that version.
Performer:
Silesian Quartet:
Szymon Krzeszowiec, violin
Arkadiusz Kubica, violin
Łukasz Syrnicki, viola
Piotr Janosik, cello
Tracklist:
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010)
CD1:
01. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62 ‘Już się zmierzcha’ (1988)
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64 ‘Quasi una fantasia’ (1991)
02. I. Largo
03. II. Deciso
04. III. Arioso
05. IV. Allegro, sempre con grande passione e molto marcato
CD2:
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 ‘…songs are sung’ (1994 – 95)
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Largo
03. III. Allegro
04. IV. Deciso
05. V. Largo
Five Kurpian Songs, Op. 75 (1999)
06. No. 1, Hej, z góry, z góry!
07. No. 2, Ciamna nocka, ciamna
08. No. 3, Wcoraj, dziwcyno, nie dzisiaj
09. No. 4, Z Torunia ja parobecek
10. No. 5, Wysła burzycka, bandzie desc
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