Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
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Free Music Review: Haunting
Hit: 5 Stars
This recording is a mesmerizing adventure. You have made a journey when you listen to this music. It's minimalist structures make for a distilling and concentration of emotion that is other-wordly. Upshaw's singing is sublime and Zinman gets the most out of the London Sinfonietta. BUY IT!Free Music Review: #3 exposes all our horror and pain into a thing of beauty
Hit: 5 Stars
Henryk Gorecki's creative spirit must run so deep that it punctures through the very core of Earth's lava center. For "Symphony No. 3" builds in much the same way as Barber's "Adagio For Strings" as it slowly resurrects from the depths of nonexistence/absolute blackness and eventually soars to the heights of humanity's greatest measure: that most exquisite and eternal kind of beauty all mankind craves. This symphony is a thing of sacred beauty, a moment you wish would never end. It reaches inward and infinitely beyond the horror and pain of life. Dawn Upshaw's voice fully embraces the human condition, and then exeeds and exceeds into a place we cannot physically enter. Except when we see and hear and feel such a thing of beauty as this.Free Music Review: All the Sorrow of the 20th Century in One Recording
Hit: 5 Stars
Gorecki's Third could be nicknamed the "War symphony." In this remarkable recording you will find all the grief and tears of the last bloody century expressed in unforgettable music. The first movement accumulates more and more power as it goes until it breaks into a restrained but hugely emotional outpouring of sorrow; it sounds a little like Philip Glass meets Mahler. Dawn Upshaw sings like an angel in the other movements as a prisoner in a Gestapo jail and a mother looking for the body of a child killed in a massacre. This is in many ways the musical version of the Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C.; tears and even reconciliation are not far off. A great 20th century piece of music.Free Music Review: Want to unwind? This is THE one!
Hit: 5 Stars
Pour a glass of favorite wine (a rich red is best for this), relax in front of a good stereo, turn down the lights, and soak in this haunting "song of sorrows." It's a great way to relieve stress and infuse a wonderful calm. This is one of my all time favorites.Free Music Review: Unforgettable performance of a musical prayer
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an outstanding rendition of Gorecki's Third, capturing the feeling of growing hope and joy that can ultimately break from the shackles of sorrow. Zinman and the London Sinfonietta really understand the mood and philosophy of this piece, and create a wonderfully ambient listening experience. The symphony starts out with a slow tempo, but you sense that something very profound is in the works. These first few moments are one of the finest examples of how a deliberately slow tempo can build up to a "drop everything and pay ATTENTION" sense of drama. Very gradually, as though the slightest slip of impatience might destroy it, the sense of serene joy is allowed expression. Dawn Upshaw's voice is ideally suited to the choral parts, which are more like the human voice being used as yet another instrument. "Haunting" is a word often associated with this piece, and this particular recording surely creates that effect. After listening, you can't help but try to capture bits and pieces of this in your mind, but alas, you cannot. Yet its powerfully serene ambience continues to grip the memory. If you've never tried Gorecki as a composer before, or shy away from the more "modern" classical works, I urge you to give this one a spin... I'd be willing to wager that you will be quite awestruck.