Posts Tagged Gorecki
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April 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
We Need To Talk About Classical Music…Because We Never Have: Our Introduction To Classical Music
I’m going to tell you a bit about my background with classical music; some of my early touchstones, how I educated myself and explored options, and some of the favourite pieces I’ve collected and my go-to composers. That sort of thing. And then you can do the same. Seem reasonable? Otherwise we’ll be here all […]Archive
March 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Max Richter: Sleep
Max Richter Sleep Deutsche Grammaophon Easily my most played album of 2015 – easily, and yet it’s not, strictly an album. Here, Max Richter has created a soundtrack for sleep, but it’s more than just a settling score, it’s a musical evocation, a melodic translation of sleep. It’s a stretch – too (pardon the pun) […]Archive
March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 733
London Sinfonietta with Dawn Upshaw, Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 (1992) I fell in love with this when I first heard it – this particular recording, Gorecki composed the piece in the mid-70s but this early-90s recording was the one that found me, it was being used to soundtrack images from the Bosnian war, well from […]Archive
November 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
John Luther Adams Become Ocean Cantaloupe In a single-track, album-length work, the composer John Luther Adams has made a stunning soundtrack for contemporary life – it shimmers with a restraint, it play with – and in and around – silences. Under the baton of Ludovic Morlot the Seattle Symphony gives life to the Alaskan composer’s […]Archive
August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman