Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
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Free Music Review: ashes, sorrow, music
Hit: 5 Stars
It is a commonplace that the exilic prophets who moved captive Judah to imagine a future beyond the certain full stop that was exile in Babylonia saved the life and future of a nation. In the mix, they produced some of humankind's most stirring poetry.
Redemptive art does not justify tragedy and does not ameliorate its dark realia. Yet it is a measure of the created world and of the human spirit that unspeakable pain somehow creates some of history's finest words and most gripping sounds.
Enter the twentieth-century Polish composers Henryk Gorecki and his Symphony No. 3 ('Sorrowful Songs'), performed here in a stunning 1991 recording by the London Sinfonietta under the direction of David Zinman.
A widely-circulated encyclopedia of music mentions this works as 'of singular importance to the unfolding apostmodernist aesthetic in Europe and then concludes with this shocking but indisputable verdict: '... some find it deeply inspiring, others find it unbearably tedious and predictable.'
Indeed. Art out of the ashes almost inevitably elicits this dualism of response.
This reviewer finds Gorecki's most-listened-to work a masterpiece of understated, richly harmonious, soul-leveraging passion. Dawn Upshaw is magnificent in her interpretation of the work's few, dense, pleading words.
An amateur lover of classical music, I have stumbled upon Gorecki only lately. Quickly the composer has moved to the top rank of musical creators whose product I find most capable of emotional deconstruction and at the same time generative of deep satisfaction and fresh resolve. Art does not exist for such an outcome, yet it is only the best art that produces it as a byproduct of its apprehension of beautiful things.
The landscape of Poland is no less littered with bone and ash for the existence of this symphony. Art does not ameliorate evil. Yet, it is the nature of a world in which redemption is a never-impossible and recurring surprise, that ash and bone occasionally become the soil in which something as beautiful as Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 is born.
Evil, the exilic prophets plead with us still to understand, is penultimate.
Free Music Review: Sorrowful Songs
Hit: 5 Stars
This Symphony is an absolute masterpiece. The composition, orchestration and performance are brilliant. Dawn Upshaw has the voice to carry this deep and moving lament.Free Music Review: a haunting symphony you won't forget
Hit: 5 Stars
I was introduced to Gorecki in high school and I've been a follower ever since. His passion, his life and death (not quite) are written in Symphony 3.
Lento e Largo is cathartic to say the least- a message written on the wall of a Gestapo prison during World War II, how can you not be moved?
This work is truly a masterpiece of the simplest of notes and the most haunting of serialist styles. The overall effect of minimalism is long lasting.
Free Music Review: Wonderful to work and cry by...
Hit: 5 Stars
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)
Free Music Review: simfonija zalosnih pjesama
Hit: 5 Stars
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...