String Quartet no. 3 “...songs are sung”

Album by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki & Kronos Quartet

String Quartet No. 3 "...songs are sung" is the third string quartet by Polish composer Henryk Górecki, completed in 1995. The work exemplifies Górecki's late-period turn towards a more spare, modal and tonal language, employing slow-moving, hymn-like textures and sustained sonorities that emphasise solemnity and lyricism and contrast with his earlier modernist experiments.
First released: 20th March 2007

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 3, op. 67: I. Adagio - Molto andante - Cantabile
    10:38
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 3, op. 67: II. Largo, cantabile
    11:05
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 3, op. 67: III. Allegro, sempre ben marcato
    4:24
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 3, op. 67: IV. Deciso - espressivo ma ben tenuto
    11:32
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 3, op. 67: V. Largo - tranquillo
    12:36

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