0 Górecki: Symphony No. 3, Three Olden Style Pieces

"Get this disc, turn out the lights, start listening, and remember why you can't live without music." --American Record Guide

Zofia Kilanowicz on Naxos has also obviously become immersed in the word-settings. In the work’s closing section, with its hint of a gentle but remorseless tolling bell, Wit achieves a mood of simple serenity, even forgiveness. The Three Pieces in Olden Style make a fine postlude, the second with its dance figurations, the third with its fierce tremolando violins, like shafts of bright light, suddenly resolving to a very positive ending. All in all, this seems in many ways a ‘best buy’. --Penguin Guide, January 2009

"What impresses me most about this performance is its sprituality" --Gramophone Magazine

"as though his Polish forces had special insights denied to foreigners" --CD Review:

"this disc seems a clear first choice" --Classic CD

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0 Górecki: The Three String Quartets

Royal String Quartet

INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 'OUTSTANDING'

'The quartets were commissioned by Kronos, whose recordings on Nonesuch must command respect and attention, but the Royal's performances rival them with playing that is passionate and sharp-edged, capturing the emotional depth and intensity of the music equally vividly' --BBC Music Magazine

'The Royal Quartet is outstanding in every respect … The sheer poise of the playing in the last movement of the Third, never slackening for a moment, is absolutely remarkable … This is an outstanding tribute to a great composer' --International Record Review

'The players are suitably violent and relentless as Górecki creates driving, looping friezes of sound. They are terrific at sustaining long, slow lines of musical thought, a skill much needed in the predominantly slow Third Quartet … It is very fine playing, superbly recorded' --The Strad

'The Royals do it full and utter justice, from the reluctant liveliness of its central Allegro to fourth and fifth movements featuring harmonies cool enough for a jazz chart' --New Zealand Herald

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