Symphony no. 3

Album by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki & Joanna Kozłowska & Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Narodowej & Kazimierz Kord

Symphony No. 3 is the third symphony by Polish composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, composed in 1976. Scored for orchestra with an extended solo soprano line, it employs spare, slow-moving textures, modal harmonies and repetitive motifs to create a meditative, elegiac sound world and exemplifies Górecki's late-career shift toward simpler, more consonant language within late 20th-century Polish classical music.
First released: 1994

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs": I. Lento: Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
    30:07
  2. 2.
    Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs": II. Lento e largo: Tranquillissimo - Cantabilissimo - Dolcissimo - Legatissimo
    10:06
  3. 3.
    Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs": III. Lento: Cantabile semplice
    18:50

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