Saturday, December 6, 2014

Henryk Górecki - Symphony No.3 - Three Pieces in the Old Style - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit - Zofia Kilanowicz, Soprano - Naxos 1994

As everyone and even their pet lemur already have *at least* one recording I'm sure of Gorecki's masterpiece the Symphony No. 3 ('Symphony of Sorrowful Songs') (1976), it needs absolutely no introduction. In fact I'm mainly posting this because I'm adding this to my iTunes library anyway, after ripping it years ago I put it only on an external hdd, always listening to the physical copy. The mp3s I'm uploading are from my amazon account, I also bought a copy there when my orig disc went missing for about a year. I mentioned this already but this recording is practically tied with the Dawn Upshaw disc on Nonesuch for me. Plus "Three Pieces in the Old Style"/"Three Olden Style Pieces" is also very well played. A must have disc, even if only one or two visitors benefit from it at this point!


The mp3 tags display different cover art (from amazon) then the disc I have, which is the above. The disc received it seems an album art "refresh" some years ago, Naxos has been doing this I've noticed
on quite a few releases. 

Enjoy (someone, someplace ;)

Gorecki_SymphonyNo.3_Three_Pieces_in_Old Style_Tzadik.zip

http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/80891860/file.html

4 comments:

statework.blogspot.com said...

Always loved this particular performance as well, and MY cd has gone AWOL for too long too! Thanks. I can bring it back into the fold now.

Guillermo
from
statework.blogspot.com

Tzadik said...

Hi there Guillermo, thank you for commenting and stopping by. This disc might actually be my favorite, now that I think of it I have played it much more frequently than the Nonesuch disc, as exceptional as it is. Happy I can bring the music back in your library!

Gvozden said...

Superb piece of music...thank you T-man

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much, sir. I was somehow always missing the "Three Pieces in the Old Style" part so I am glad to have visited your blog. Thank you a ton for sharing these great music compositions! /Jan