I've only just learned that Henryk Gorecki died last week.
His 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (which floors me each time I hear it) is already pencilled in for a serious blog post one day, because a story goes with it. But now's not the time.
In his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, there was mention of Arvo Part. Now, although I reckon myself reasonably well tuned in to composers, I've just missed all this music, and have never knowingly heard any of it.
Just try listening to this, and I hope you'll be as dumbstruck as I was!
I think it would make very good background music to film or TV.
ReplyDeleteIt is like that Pips.
ReplyDeleteI'm furious that I've never even heard this before!
Mind you, they play a lot of similar music on Classic FM, and I don't always hear the composer's name...