The first recording of composer Henryk Górecki's final work, Symphony No. 4, Tansman Episodes, is out next Friday, January 22, on Nonesuch Records. But you don't need to wait till then to hear it: the album is streaming in full here as an NPR First Listen. "It's an intriguing summation of the sounds of a singular career," says NPR.
The first recording of composer Henryk Górecki's final work, Symphony No. 4, Tansman Episodes, is out next Friday, January 22, on Nonesuch Records. But you don't need to wait till then to hear it: the album is streaming in full below as an NPR First Listen.
The recording was made during the 2014 world premiere performance at Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko. The piece, which pays homage to Górecki’s fellow Polish composer Alexsander Tansman, was incomplete at the time of Górecki’s 2010 death. However, the score had precise indications for orchestration, which Górecki’s son Mikolaj, also a composer, used to complete it. Symphony No. 4 will be released individually and as part of Henryk Górecki: A Nonesuch Retrospective, a seven-disc box set containing all Nonesuch recordings of Górecki works. The first vinyl LP of the beloved 1992 Nonesuch recording of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 also will be released on January 22.
"It's an intriguing summation of the sounds of a singular career," says NPR's Tom Huizenga of Symphony No. 4. Read the complete review at npr.org/music, and hear Symphony No. 4 in full below.
Reserve a copy of Symphony No. 4, the seven-disc box set Henryk Górecki: A Nonesuch Retrospective, and the Symphony No. 3 vinyl in the Nonesuch Store now.
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