Gorecki's Sorrowful Songs
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Henryk Gorecki drew words from three sources for his Symphony No. 3: a 15th Century religious poem, a message scrawled on the wall of a Gestapo prison in 1944, and finally a folksong about a mother searching for her son. We'll hear the recording that made this heart-rending work famous, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta under conductor David Zinman.
The earlier part of the evening, however, brings a diversity of musical styles to the fore. We'll hear Henry Purcell's Chacony in G Minor with Musica Antiqua Köln; also, works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, and Japanese composer Somei Satoh.
The earlier part of the evening, however, brings a diversity of musical styles to the fore. We'll hear Henry Purcell's Chacony in G Minor with Musica Antiqua Köln; also, works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, and Japanese composer Somei Satoh.
