Gorecki: Complete Music for String Quartet

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
March 21, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Henryk Gorecki
    • PERFORMER
      Silesian Quartet
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 21, 2025
    • UPC
      0095115238325
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20383(2)
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62, "Już się zmierzcha" (Already It Is Dusk)

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    2. I. Largo. Sostenuto - Mesto -

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    3. II. Deciso. Energico -

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    4. III. Arioso: Adagio cantabile ma molto espressivo e molto appassionato

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    5. IV. Allegro. Sempre con grande passione e molto marcato

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    6. I. Adagio - Molto andante - Cantabile

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    7. II. Largo cantabile

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    8. III. Allegro, sempre ben marcato

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    9. IV. Deciso - Espressivo ma ben tenuto

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    10. V. Largo - Tranquillo

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    11. No. 1. Hej, z góry, z góry! (Hey Down the hill)

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    12. No. 2. Ciamna nocka, ciamna (The Night is Dark and Deep)

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    13. No. 3. Wcoraj, dzlwcyno, nie dzisiaj (Yesterday Dear Girl)

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    14. No. 4. Z Torunia ja parobecek (A Farmhand I Be)

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet

    15. No. 5. Wyszła burzycka, bandzie desc (Storm Is Coming, Rain Will Fall)

      Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

      Ensemble: Silesian Quartet


The Gramophone Award-winning Silesian Quartet present a double-album of the complete works for string quartet by compatriot Henryk Gorecki. 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 Waclaw of Szamotuly. The Second, double the length of the First, is subtitled 'quasi una fantasia' and follows a classical four-movement form, subtly referencing Beethoven. Gorecki 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, Gorecki 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 premiere recording of that version.