Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (Polish composer)

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Has a catalog of works at http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/VEPM/gorecki/gor-wrks.html

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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk mʲiˈkɔwaj ɡuˈrɛtski]; December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. His Webernian-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and drew influence from Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen,Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki. He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid-1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the hugely popular Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir, to the 1981 choral hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka and his requiem Good Night.

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Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1985 Symphony No. 3 (Symphonieorchester Des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden feat. conductor: Ernest Bour) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1988 Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" / Three Pieces in Olden Style Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1988 Three Pieces in Olden Style / Symphony No. 3 / Amen for Choir Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1991 Already It Is Dusk / ''Lerchenmusik'' Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1992 Symphony No. 3 Henryk Mikołaj Górecki; Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman 3
1993 Henryk Górecki: Already It Is Dusk / Quasi una Fantasia Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1993 Beatus Vir (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Prague Philharmonic Choir) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1993 String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (Kronos Quartet) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1993 Symphonie Nr. 3 Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 5 1
1994 Symphony No. 3 / 3 Olden Style Pieces (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Antoni Wit, soprano: Zofia Kilanowicz) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 2
1994 Miserere Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1994 Symphony No. 3 (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Kazimierz Kord, soprano: Joanna Kozłowska) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 3
1995 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka / Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra / Good Night Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1995 Symphony No. 3 (Cracow K. Szymanowski State Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Jacek Kasprzyk, soprano: Zofia Kilanowicz) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 2
1995 Górecki: Sonata no. 1 / Four Preludes / Pärt: Für Alina / Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinushka Górecki, Pärt; David Arden 1
1995 Undiscovered Classics of Our Time: Górecki / Barber / Pärt Górecki, Barber, Pärt 1
1996 Kleines Requiem / Lerchenmusik (Schönberg Ensemble feat. conductor: Reinbert De Leeuw) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
1996 Tavener / Pärt / Górecki Tavener, Pärt, Górecki; Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse 3
1997 Górecki: Miserere / Gubaidulina: Alleluia Henryk Górecki, Sofia Gubaidulina; Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Radio Choir, Dmitri Kitajenko, Jesper Grove Jørgensen 1
1997 Schnittke: Concerto grosso no. 1 / Pärt: Tabula rasa / Górecki: Harpsichord concerto Schnittke, Pärt, Górecki; I Musici de Montréal, Yuli Turovsky, Eleonora Turovsky, Natalya Turovsky, Catherine Perrin 1
2001 Symphony No. 2 "Copernican" / Beatus Vir (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Antoni Wit) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
2004 Symphony No. 3 Henryk Mikołaj Górecki; Yvonne Kenny, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa 1
2007 String Quartet No. 3 "...songs are sung" (Kronos Quartet) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
2008 String Quartets (Kwartet Śląski) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
2009 Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, feat. conductor: Donnald Runnicles, soprano: Christine Brewer) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
2012 Concerto-Cantata / Little Requiem for a Certain Polka / Three Dances / Harpsichord Concerto Henryk Górecki; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit, Anna Gorécka, Carol Wincenc 1
— Ikos Górecki, Tavener, Pärt; Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury 1

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Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1993 Symfonia No. 1 „1959“ / Choros I / Three Pieces in The Old Style Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1
— The Essential Gorecki Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 1

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