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Release Date: Saturday 1 December 2018
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With the belated success of his Third Symphony 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (Naxos 8.550822), Górecki emerged in the 1990s as a composer of world stature. Between 1988 and 1995 he wrote three string quartets for the Kronos Quartet that are among his most important mature works. String Quartet No. 1 reveals chorale-like themes, so much a feature of his later writing, as well as hectic, dance-like motion, while the Second Quartet's wider range of expression explicitly evokes Beethoven. Genesis I: Elementi offers a powerful contrast - a string trio from 1962 of uncompromising immediacy.
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62 'Already it is dusk'
Genesis: Elementi, Op. 19 No. 1
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64 'Quasi una fantasia'