Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
A disc of chamber music for clarinet, piano, and cello from minimalist Jaan Rääts, Surprised-by-Beauty composer Arvo Pärt, and on-and-off populist composer Henryk Górecki with
The promotional blurb for this recording bills it as a “wide-ranging program”, and that’s certainly true; the only unifying theme might be that all the
You might remember Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s best-known work for voice and orchestra, 1976’s Third Symphony (“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”). After all, David Zinman’s recording
This Eloquence release offers a second budget-priced version of this enormously popular symphony (the other being on Naxos). The main distinction here is the use
It’s encouraging to see a relatively new orchestral work become a “hit”, garnering performances worldwide and recordings nearly as numerous as those of Mahler symphonies.
As with its two predecessors, Baltic Voices 3 features several CD premieres along with first-rate renditions of important but little-known works from the latter 20th-century,
This new recording of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 has the distinction of being the first on SACD. Otherwise, it’s pretty much yet another fine performance
