Henryk Grecki, Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman Symphony No. 3

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• Henryk Mikoaj Grecki’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Of Sorrowful Songs’ for solo soprano and orchestra (1976) caused a lot of excitement when it was first performed in Poland at the 1977 Warsaw Autumn Festival. The audience was confused and extremely divided in their opinions and judgments, some considering the work a masterpiece while others deeming it a demonstration of the composer’s block. Everybody was struck by the simplicity of the music language; some saw it reduced to a few chords and repeated melody. The Symphony was a true revolution compared to Grecki’s earlier, extraordinarily technically sophisticated music. This is how Grecki himself parried the critics’ attacks:
  “You, men of letters, have several Greckis, because you like labeling and pigeonholing: this is the ‘Scontri’ Grecki, that is the ‘Sonata’ one, here is the ‘Refrain