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...Summer of 1915 and compositions by Menotti, Stravinsky and John Harbison. The other, which came out two years later, is called The Girl with Orange Lips and is a collection of highly unusual contemporary pieces. Both won Grammys. Her next album, the Symphony No. 3 by Polish composer Henryk Gorecki, on which she was the soloist, became the most unexpected classical crossover hit of all time, landing on the British pop charts in 1993. Now Upshaw has another unlikely triumph on her hands: a new album called I Wish It So, which consists of mostly unfamiliar theater songs by Kurt...
...Sollscher advertises itself as "Italian Music for Violin & Guitar-Perfect Company for Relaxing at Home." Recently breaking Billboard's classical top 20 as well as Tower's classical top 10, this recording's success continues a trend in popular classical music which arguably started with the fuss over Henryk Gorecki's third symphony, and includes the more recent "international phenomenon" of Chant...
...simply, extremes in classical music are no longer in vogue. The casual classical music public is no longer fascinated with the blatant neuroticism and psychic distress found in Mahler, for example, but seeks relatively non-offensive music. The unsubtle may call it chewing gum for the mind, but both Gorecki's symphony and Deutsche Grammophon's recent effort contain very real musical gems...
Bach Society Orchestra. The orchestra will perform its first concert featuring Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, "Unfinished," Gorecki's Three Pieces in Olden Style and Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 2 in a minor, Op. 59. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $5 for students. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office and at the door...
...despite the superficial differences in idiom among his works, what remains constant is Gorecki's unshakable faith. Like Bruckner's soaring Gothic symphonies, Gorecki's music is secure -- staunch in its Catholicism, sanguine in its magisterial technique and confident in its calm, unmannered directness of expression...