Recordings

Already It Is Dusk / “Lerchenmusik”

Henryk Górecki

1991

“[Already It Is Dusk is] a 14-minute gem… While one can only imagine that Górecki’s music comes from the heart, there is no question that it goes to the heart – and to the gut – of those who hear it… It is the music’s directness, not its subtlety, that makes it so winning.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About the album

From David Drew’s liner notes: “The opening words of a four-part church song by the 16th-century Polish composer Wacław z Szamotuł provide the quartet with its title, and an extended version of the entire tenor melody is both the basis of the opening Molto lento and the source of everything that follows.”

SELECT CREDITS

Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello

Produced by Judith Sherman
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz

Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet No. 1, op. 62)
Performed by Kronos Quartet
“Lerchenmusik” – Recitatives and Ariosos, op. 53, for clarinet, cello, and piano: 1
“Lerchenmusik” – Recitatives and Ariosos, op. 53, for clarinet, cello, and piano: 2
“Lerchenmusik” – Recitatives and Ariosos, op. 53, for clarinet, cello, and piano: 3
Performed by London Sinfonietta Soloists

Released by Nonesuch Records