Nicholas Kenyon 

Górecki: Totus Tuus – review

The National Youth Choir of Great Britain revels in the Polish composer's choral music, writes Nicholas Kenyon
  
  


Was Henryk Górecki's reputation limited by the worldwide impact of his Symphony No 3? A figure of great integrity and private passion, the emotional range of his music was very wide: this group of choral pieces ranges from the intense 1970s simplicity of Euntes ibant et flebant and Amen (that word the only text of the piece), to the massive acclamations of Salve, Sidus Polonorum of 2000, with its bells and piano that sometimes support yet also undermine the music. The fresh, full-throated voices of the massed National Youth Choir of Great Britain under Michael Brewer are wonderfully affirmative and extrovert.

 

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