Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung')

Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung')
Studio album by Kronos Quartet
Released 20 March 2007 (2007-03-20)
Genre Contemporary classical
Label Nonesuch (#79993)
Producer Judith Sherman
Kronos Quartet chronology
The Fountain
(2006)
Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
(2007)
Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós
(2007)

Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing the last string quartet by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. The Kronos Quartet had recorded Górecki's other string quartets on Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Already It Is Dusk/"Lerchenmusik" (1991) and on Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (1993).

Track listing

All music composed by Henryk Górecki.

No. Title Length
1. "I. Adagio-Molto Andante-Cantabile"   10:34
2. "II. Largo, Cantabile"   10:59
3. "III. Allegro, Sempre ben marcato"   4:22
4. "IV. Deciso-Espressivo ma ben tenuto"   11:26
5. "V. Largo-Tranquillo"   12:36

Critical reception

The album was an "Editor's Choice" for Strings magazine, which called it "a solemn, spiritual, and revolutionary work."[1]

Credits

Musicians

Production

See also

References

  1. Cahill, Greg (Aug–Sep 2007). "Editor's Choice". Strings. String Letter Publishing. 22 (2): 147.
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