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CHAN 20383
Multiple Set of 2 CDs
Gorecki: Complete works for String Quartet
Release Date: February 2025
Originally recorded in February 2008
Ensemble
Silesian Quartet
Silesian Quartet
Executive Producer
Ralph Couzens
Ralph Couzens
Producer
Beata Jankowska-Burzynska
Beata Jankowska-Burzynska
Engineer
Beata Jankowska-Burzynska
Beata Jankowska-Burzynska
Venue 9-10 February 2008 (Quartet No.1) 23-25 February 2008 (Quartet No. 2) 28-30 March 2008 (Quartet No.3) 30 May and 30 June 2014 (Kurpian Songs)
Concert Hall of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Katowice, Poland
Concert Hall of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Katowice, Poland
Genre:
Classical
String quartet, wind quartet etc.
Classical
String quartet, wind quartet etc.
Available: 21/FEB/2025
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Gorecki: Complete works for String Quartet
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933–2010)
COMPACT DISC ONE
1.
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62 ‘Juz sie zmierzcha’ (1988)
16:00
(Already It Is Dusk)
‘Music for String Quartet’
Viola part based on the cantus firmus of the song by
Waclaw of Szamotuly (c. 1520–c. 1560)
Deciso. Marcatissimo – Molto lento. Tranquillo –
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64 ‘Quasi una fantasia’ (1991)
32:53
2.
I
Largo. Sostenuto. Mesto –
7:41
3.
II
Deciso. Energico. Marcatissimo sempre –
7:30
4.
III
Arioso. Adagio cantabile ma molto espressivo e molto appassionato –
7:52
5.
IV
IV Allegro, sempre con grande passione e molto marcato –
9:48
Total time: 49:01
COMPACT DISC TWO
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 ‘...songs are sung’ (1994-95)
52:56
To the Kronos Quartet, which for so many years has waited patiently for this quartet
1.
I
Adagio. Molto andante. Cantabile –
10:36
2.
II
Largo. Cantabile –
12:05
3.
III
Allegro. Sempre ben marcato –
4:39
4.
IV
Deciso. Espressivo ma ben tenuto –
12:06
5.
V
Largo. Tranquillo –
13:26
première recording in version for string quartet
Five Kurpian Songs, Op. 75 (1999)
22:34
for Unaccompanied Mixed Choir
Performed by String Quartet
6.
I
Hej, z góry, z góry! (Hey Down the Hill, Down the Hill!).
4:16
7.
II
Ciamna nocka, ciamna (Dark is the Night, How Dark).
3:12
8.
III
Wcoraj, dziwcyno, nie dzisiaj (Yesterday, My Dear, Not Today).
4:51
9.
IV
Z Torunia ja parobecek (I Am a Farm-Hand from Torun).
2:11
10.
V
Wysla burzycka, bandzie desc (The Storm Is Coming, It Will Rain).
8:01
Total time: 75:34
Szymon Krzeszowiec violin
Arkadiusz Kubica violin
Lukasz Syrnicki viola
Piotr Janosik cello
