Artist
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki is a composer artist from Polish. 17 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · Polish · Best composer albums
- 17
- Releases
- 1985–2009
- Active years
Artist
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki is a composer artist from Polish. 17 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · Polish · Best composer albums
Most popular
Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, feat. conductor: Donnald Runnicles, soprano: Christine Brewer)
2009
String Quartet No. 3 "...songs are sung" (Kronos Quartet)
2007
Symphony No. 3
2004
Symphony No. 2 "Copernican" / Beatus Vir (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Antoni Wit)
2001
Górecki: Miserere / Gubaidulina: Alleluia
1997
Kleines Requiem / Lerchenmusik (Schönberg Ensemble feat. conductor: Reinbert De Leeuw)
1996
Kleines Requiem für eine Polka / Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra / Good Night
1995
Symphony No. 3 (Cracow K. Szymanowski State Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Jacek Kasprzyk, soprano: Zofia Kilanowicz)
1995
Miserere
1994
Symphony No. 3 / 3 Olden Style Pieces (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Antoni Wit, soprano: Zofia Kilanowicz)
1994
Beatus Vir (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Prague Philharmonic Choir)
1993
Henryk Górecki: Already It Is Dusk / Quasi una Fantasia
1993
String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (Kronos Quartet)
1993
Already It Is Dusk / ''Lerchenmusik''
1991
Three Pieces in Olden Style / Symphony No. 3 / Amen for Choir
1988
Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" / Three Pieces in Olden Style
1988
Symphony No. 3 (Symphonieorchester Des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden feat. conductor: Ernest Bour)
1985
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. He joined the faculty of his alma mater in Katowice in 1965, where he was made a lecturer in 1968, and then rose to provost before resigning in 1979. 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. His name remained largely unknown outside Poland until the mid-to late 1980s, a…