Sorrowful Songs

Music

Lately, Aaron over at AlmostCool has taken to reviewing some of his favorite releases, in addition to the genres that he regularly reviews. This week, he reviews Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), giving it a perfect 10. And if you’ve heard Górecki’s work (or have seen the end credits of Fearless) you’ll understand why. It’s an absolutely beautiful album, almost devastatingly so, and one that has reduced me to a sobbing wreck on many an occasion.

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Jan 21, 2005, 12:00am

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stevenz
January 22, 2005 11:16pm

I haven’t checked out Gorecki’s work yet, but now I think I shall. This appears to be an interesting read:
http://www.metanoia.org/martha/writing/bestill.htm

Also, I put together my top5 for 2004 list over at http://www.littleamericarecords.com/top5.shtml , which includes ‘Chants, Hymns & Dances’ by Gurdjieff / Tsabropoulos (composers) - Lechner / Tsabropoulos (performers). Check it out here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002ONC72/qid=1106457305/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/102-9596665-1698561?v=glance&s=classical&n=507846

I’m just beginning to scrape the surface of this stuff. I find it quite intense stuff.

Yours,
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stevenz
January 22, 2005 11:19pm

oops! I thought the urls would be linked automatically. My apologies. And that last line was supposed to read, “I find this stuff to be quite intense” :)

Cheers!
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Jason
January 23, 2005 3:49pm

If you’re posting long URLs, you might want to use something like http://tinyurl.com/ to shorten them up.