Lilly Classical Series: GÓRECKI'S THIRD SYMPHONY

Krzysztof Urba?ski, Conductor Zach De Pue, Violin Shara Worden, Soprano Henryk Gorécki's Third Symphony, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, struck an international chord when it became the best-selling contemporary classical record of all time with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Written for soprano and orchestra, NewAm artist Shara Worden joins the ISO for this symphonic blockbuster, which sets texts of lamentation, including a prayer inscribed on the wall of a prisoner’s cell in a Gestapo headquarters in Poland, against Gorécki’s minimal and modal composition style. Kilar                         Pastorale e capriccio (World Premiere – ISO Commission) Szymanowski        Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra, Op 35 Gorecki                   Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 Symphony on Sorrowful Songs