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...provide the answer. Koch Schwann has issued Symphony No. 1, "1959"; Choros I, a major work for string orchestra from 1964; and the brief Three Pieces in the Old Style (1963) for strings. From Elektra Nonesuch come two recent string quartets, Already It Is Dusk (No. 1) and Quasi una Fantasia (No. 2). The result is a fuller, rounder picture of an uncompromising modernist who just may be the Bruckner...
Gorecki's compositional language has changed over the years; it is a long way from the atonal pointillism of the Symphony No. 1 and the relentless brutality of the Choros I to the contemplative beauties of the Quasi una Fantasia quartet of 1991. The symphony, so typically "modern" in its harsh sonorities and deliberate absence of melodic appeal, is not much different from what Boulez and others in Western Europe were doing at about the same time; the Choros, meanwhile, is clearly influenced by Gorecki's countryman Krzysztof Penderecki, notably by the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima...
According to Una Okonkwo `94, co-president of the association, members were working on behalf of Oxfam America, a non-profit relief organization...