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“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”
In this episode, I talk about a piece that is very dear to my heart: Henryk Gorecki’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.” Here are some helpful readings and recordings I use: Beale, Simon, Sacred Music. BBC Four. BBC, July 24, 2010. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rm59l.
Cizmic, Maria, Performing Pain: Music and Trauma In 1970s and 80s Eastern Europe.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2004.
Górecki, Henryk. “Remarks on Performing the Third Symphony.” Polish Music Journal 6.2.03 - Gorecki's Remarks on Performing His Symphony No. 3. Accessed April 8, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20121018111313/http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/6.2.03/GoreckiThird.html.
Griffith, Alyssa. “Expression Surpassing Words: Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, Op. 36
‘Sorrowful Songs.’” Musical Offerings 6, no. 2 (2015): 85–99.
https://doi.org/10.15385/jmo.2015.6.2.3.
Howard, Luke B. "HENRYK M. GÓRECKI'S SYMPHONY NO. 3 (1976) AS A
SYMBOL OF POLISH POLITICAL HISTORY." The Polish Review 52, no. 2 (2007): 215-22.
Accessed January 29, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25779666.
Howard, Luke B. "Motherhood, "Billboard," and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Receptions of Górecki's Symphony No. 3." The Musical Quarterly 82, no. 1 (1998): 131-59. Accessed April 8, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/742238.
Robin, William. “How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records.” The New York Times. The New York Times, June 9, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/arts/music/how-a-somber-symphony-sold-more-than-a-million-records.html.
The New American Bible. The New American Bible. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 2011.
Thomas, Adrian. Górecki. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Trochimczyk, Maja. "Henryk Mikołaj Górecki." The Polish Review 57, no. 2 (2012): 132-37. Accessed April 8, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41558089.
Recordings: London Sinfonietta, Elektra-Nonesuch. Symphony No. 3 Opus 36 (1976): Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 1992, disc. Cambridge King’s College Choir, Sacred Treasures, Erato, “Totus Tuus” (1987), n.d.
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In this episode, I talk about a piece that is very dear to my heart: Henryk Gorecki’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.” Here are some helpful readings and recordings I use: Beale, Simon, Sacred Music. BBC Four. BBC, July 24, 2010. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rm59l.
Cizmic, Maria, Performing Pain: Music and Trauma In 1970s and 80s Eastern Europe.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2004.
Górecki, Henryk. “Remarks on Performing the Third Symphony.” Polish Music Journal 6.2.03 - Gorecki's Remarks on Performing His Symphony No. 3. Accessed April 8, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20121018111313/http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/6.2.03/GoreckiThird.html.
Griffith, Alyssa. “Expression Surpassing Words: Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, Op. 36
‘Sorrowful Songs.’” Musical Offerings 6, no. 2 (2015): 85–99.
https://doi.org/10.15385/jmo.2015.6.2.3.
Howard, Luke B. "HENRYK M. GÓRECKI'S SYMPHONY NO. 3 (1976) AS A
SYMBOL OF POLISH POLITICAL HISTORY." The Polish Review 52, no. 2 (2007): 215-22.
Accessed January 29, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25779666.
Howard, Luke B. "Motherhood, "Billboard," and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Receptions of Górecki's Symphony No. 3." The Musical Quarterly 82, no. 1 (1998): 131-59. Accessed April 8, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/742238.
Robin, William. “How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records.” The New York Times. The New York Times, June 9, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/arts/music/how-a-somber-symphony-sold-more-than-a-million-records.html.
The New American Bible. The New American Bible. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 2011.
Thomas, Adrian. Górecki. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Trochimczyk, Maja. "Henryk Mikołaj Górecki." The Polish Review 57, no. 2 (2012): 132-37. Accessed April 8, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41558089.
Recordings: London Sinfonietta, Elektra-Nonesuch. Symphony No. 3 Opus 36 (1976): Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 1992, disc. Cambridge King’s College Choir, Sacred Treasures, Erato, “Totus Tuus” (1987), n.d.