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Górecki: Complete Music for String Quartet

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Catalogue numberCHAN20383W
Release date2025-02-21
Discs2
Orig. sample rate44100 Hz

The Gramophone Award-winning Silesian Quartet present a double-album of the complete works for string quartet by compatriot Henryk Górecki. 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. Górecki 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, Górecki 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 première recording of that version.
 
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Extra material for download
 
 
Disc 1
 
  Composer: Henryk Górecki
01 String Quartet No.1, Op. 62 "Already it is Dusk" 16:07 $ 2.90 USD
 
 
  Composer: Henryk Górecki
  String Quartet No.2, Op. 64 "Quasi una fantasia", Op.64 32:51
02 I. Largo 07:41 $ 1.38 USD
03 II. Deciso 07:30 $ 1.35 USD
04 III. Arioso 07:52 $ 1.42 USD
05 IV. Allegro 09:48 $ 1.76 USD
 
 
Disc 2
 
  Composer: Henryk Górecki
  String Quartet No.3, Op. 67 "...songs are sung", Op.67 52:58
06 I. Adagio 10:36 $ 1.91 USD
07 II. Largo 12:05 $ 2.18 USD
08 III. Allegro 04:40 $ 0.84 USD
09 IV. Deciso 12:07 $ 2.18 USD
10 V. Largo 13:30 $ 2.43 USD
 
 
  Composer: Henryk Górecki
  Five Kurpian Songs, Op. 75 (String Quartet Version) 22:31
11 I. Hej, z góry, z góry! (Hey, Down the Hill, Down the
Hill!)
04:16 $ 0.77 USD
12 II. Ciamna nocka, ciamna (Dark is the Night, How Dark) 03:12 $ 0.58 USD
13 III. Wcoraj, dziwcyno, nie dzisiaj (Yesterday, My Dear, Not
Today)
04:51 $ 0.87 USD
14 IV. Z Torunia ja parobecek (I am a Farm-Hand from Torun) 02:11 $ 0.39 USD
15 V. Wysła burzycka, bandzie desc (The Storm Is Coming, It
Will Rain)
08:01 $ 1.44 USD
 
  Album total 124:27
ComposerHenryk Górecki
EnsembleSilesian Quartet

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