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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 4 (Andrey Boreyko)


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Composer: Henryk Górecki
  1. Symphony No. 4 "Tansman Episodes", Op. 85: I. Deciso - Marcatissimo ma ben tenuto
  2. Symphony No. 4 "Tansman Episodes", Op. 85: II. Largo-ben tenuto - Marcatissimo
  3. Symphony No. 4 "Tansman Episodes", Op. 85: III. Deciso-Marcatissimo - Tranquillo e Cantabile
  4. Symphony No. 4 "Tansman Episodes", Op. 85: IV. Allegro Marcato - Giocoso - Deciso - Marcatissimo ma ben tenuto

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrey Boreyko, conductor

Date: 2016
Label: Nonesuch
http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/gorecki-symphony-no-4


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Review

AllMusic Rating: 8/10

After the pop-level success of his Symphony No. 3 in the early 1990s, Henryk Górecki waited for some years to begin work on a successor, refusing to plow the same ground further. As it happened, Górecki died in 2010 without completing this work, although he left a piano score that included some indications of orchestration. The work was orchestrated by his son. It is, of course, impossible to know to what degree the work recorded here reflects Górecki's intentions, but it's an intriguing, attention-grabbing thing at the very least. The Symphony No. 4, Op. 85 ("Tansman Episodes") was written for a festival commemorating the Polish-French composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), whose music has been profitably paired with this work by the present conductor, Andrey Boreyko. The main thematic material of the symphony, stated in abbreviated form, but stentorian tones at the beginning, is derived (how is not 100 percent clear, but there's an explanation in the notes) from the letters of Tansman's name. The work as a whole features extremely simple thematic material, a bit reminiscent of silent film melodrama, developed first through the addition of dense thickets of harmony and tonal clusters, and then through extreme contrasts in which the whole orchestra is suddenly reduced to a small ensemble of instruments. The timpani get quite a workout, and the audience for the work, in this reading by Boreyko and the London Philharmonic Orchestra or in any live performance that might follow, will not be bored. Nonesuch's live sound from Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall in London captures the immediacy of the event.

-- James Manheim, AllMusic

More reviews:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/21/gorecki-symphony-4-cd-review-london-philharmonic-orchestra-boreyko
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Henryk-Gorecki-Symphony-Tansman-Episodes/dp/B0128Y8XU4
https://www.amazon.com/Henryk-G%C3%B3recki-Symphony-Tansman-Episodes/dp/B0128Y8XU4

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Henryk Górecki (December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Górecki was a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. After composed serialist works in 1950s and 1960s, by the mid-1970s he changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the hugely popular Symphony No. 3. The 1992 recording of the 3th Symphony with Dawn Upshaw and David Zinman became a worldwide commercial and critical success, selling more than a million copies.

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Andrey Boreyko (born July 22, 1957 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian conductor. He studied conducting with Elisabeta Kudriavtseva and Alexander Dmitriev at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg. Boreyko was music director and principal conductor of the Jena Philharmonic (1998-2003), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (2001-2006), Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (2004-2007), Bern Symphony Orchestra (2004-2010) and Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra (2009-2014). He has been music director of the National Orchestra of Belgium since 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Boreyko

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