Inspiring Music

[Chris Merritt]

I just discovered Henryk Gorecki. The Symph no 3 was playing on our local NPR station. It's amazing. Long periods of nothing but sustained notes or chords, very slow and evolving, modal. So extremely well done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4

This video uses it as a score about the Holocaust, which apparently Gorecki did not want associated with this piece so much. I don't like how this video and recording make the piece more of a 'song' with the music there more to support the vocals and the voice mixed way hotter than in a non mic'ed recording. But it has good audio quality for a youtube vid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_%28G%C3%B3recki%29

[Nicolas Repetto]

Love it...thank you!

[Kristofer Emerig]

I've never heard of Henryk Gorecki, but thanks for posting this, Chris. It's profoundly beautiful music, but I can't seem to figure out why. I'll have to look into this composer.

[Michal Cielecki]

We had to listen to various music genres at music shool when I was younger and I remember that this one was quite interesting. Instantly got my attention. Really good stuff.