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- From: atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems)
- Subject: Gorecki's 3rd Symphony
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.045740.10212@cs.wayne.edu>
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- Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:57:40 GMT
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- I listened to the first movement of Gorecki's 3rd symphony today on
- headphones in the local record store. It was hard to hear the quiet
- parts over Hindemith's Mathis der Maler blaring on the loudspeakers,
- but I think I got a pretty good idea. Although the spiritual thrust
- of the music is undeniable, I'm not sure this is the sort of thing
- I'd want to listen to many times. There's very little going on here
- of musical interest, just a seamless polyphony of long slow lines
- intertwining, the resulting harmony completely static and diatonic.
- Dawn Upshaw's central solo was stunning, but nothing else held my
- attention for long.
-
- Are the other two movements more of the same? I believe there was a
- thread here on Gorecki before Christmas that I largely missed. I was
- thinking of buying the record, but I can't justify shelling out the
- bucks if it's something I'll only listen to once.
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- Dale Atems
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu
-