Gorecki / Quatuor Molinari - Complete String Quartets - Music CD

Known worldwide for his Symphony No. 3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', Polish composer Henryk Grecki enjoys an exceptionally high profile as a composer of contemporary music. Now the Molinari Quartet has chosen to explore Grecki's chamber works with this new recording of his complete string quartets. Each quartet bears a descriptive title. The first, 'Juz sie zmierzcha [Already dusk is falling]', is named after the opening line of a motet by a Polish Renaissance composer. The second, 'Quasi una fantasia', invokes Beethoven, acknowledged by Grecki himself as his muse for his first two string quartets. The title of the third quartet,... songs are sung, comes from a line by the Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov.