Word: sinfonietta
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Seek and ye shall find: since its release last April, more than 200,000 copies of the Nonesuch CD, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman, have been sold worldwide, 140,000 of them in Britain. An average classical album usually sells around 15,000 copies; the Gorecki recently sold 14,000 in a single day in Britain...
...recording is the brainchild of Elektra Nonesuch senior vice president Robert Hurwitz, 43. Hurwitz first heard the symphony nearly a decade ago in one of the three previously recorded versions, but upon encountering it again at a London Sinfonietta program in 1989, he determined to record it with Upshaw and Zinman. Gorecki was present for the sessions in London in May 1991. "There is a brutal truth and honesty to this performance," says Hurwitz, "because the performers surrendered themselves to the music...
Imagine a symphony at once brooding and luminous, tragic and triumphant, spun from a single unending melody in three long, seamless slow movements. Here it is, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" by HENRYK GORECKI, newly released on Elektra Nonesuch, with David Zinman conducting soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta. The tenebrous string texture is punctuated by Upshaw's ethereally intoning a 15th century Polish lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism...
...first nationally renowned U.S.-born conductor, who raised the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the top ranks as its music director from 1943 to 1956; in New York City. A child prodigy who played cello on the vaudeville circuit to help pay for his music studies, he conducted his Sinfonietta on the Mutual Network from...
...Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba (London). The Sinfonietta is exhilaratingly played by Sir Charles Mackerras and the Vienna Philharmonic...