Gorecki: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 "...Songs Are Sung"
6/15/2018, 5 Tracks, 48:39
Featuring
Justyna Duda
Danuta Augustyn
Aneta Dumanowska
Anna Armatys
DAFÔ String Quartet
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
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Composer Biography
A story Górecki heard from highlanders about a pregnant girl executed during the war deeply affected him and influenced the programmatic message of his Third String Quartet.
Compositional Technique
Górecki's Third String Quartet incorporates motifs from other works, notably Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, as Beethoven was a great inspiration for Górecki's quartets.
Performer Biography
The Dafô Quartet, founded in 1993, has won numerous awards for its recordings of contemporary music, including multiple 'Fryderyk' Awards from the Polish music industry.
Compositional Technique
Górecki's Third String Quartet shares similarities with his Third Symphony, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', in its mood, theme, vast sound planes, song-like linearism, and predominantly slow tempi.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The title of Górecki's String Quartet No. 3, '…songs are sung', refers to the theme of death, drawing inspiration from a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov.
Composition History
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67, was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet in the 1990s and premiered by them in 2005.
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