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Already It Is Dusk was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet (to which it is dedicated) by Doris and Myron Beigler and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It was first performed at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, on 21 January 1989.
The opening words of a four-part.church-song by the 16th-century Polish composer Waclaw z Szamotul 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. Gorécki had already used the same melody to very different purpose in his Muzyka Staropolska, op. 24 (Old Polish Music), where it is converted into granite pillars of note-against-note serial counterpoint, and "answered," brazenly, by transformations of a 14th-century organum. In the Molto lento of the quartet, Szamotul's original melody is prominently presented by the viola as cantus firmus in a "retrograde-inverse" canon whose highly dissonant (polymodal) counterpoint has, so to speak, traversed the cathedral-nave of Muzyka Staropolska, and entered a small and unoccupied side-chapel. (David Drew)
Górecki began Quasi una Fantasia in his home city of Katowice on his 57th birthday, 6 December 1990, and finished the score three months later on 19 March 1991. Commissioned by the Beigler Trust, Lincoln Center for the performing Arts and the Kosciuzko Foundation, and dedicated to the Kronos Quartet, it is the third in a series of major chamber pieces written in the past twenty years. It was preceded by Recitatives and Ariosos-Lerchenmusik, for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 53 (1985) and Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet No. 1), Op. 62 (1988). As a group, they represent a renewal of the composer's interest in instrumental music during a decade of writing mainly for the voice. (Adrian Thomas)
HENRYK GÓRECKI (b. 1933)
Already It Is Dusk
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62 (1988)
1) DECISO; MOLTO LENTO-TRANQUILLO; ALLEGRO DECISO-GRIDANDO; MARTELLANDO-TEMPESTOSO; MOLTO LENTO-TRANQUILLISSIMO (13:59)
Quasi una Fantasia
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64 (1990/91)
2) I. LARGO SOSTENUTO-MESTO (8:07)
3) II. DECISO-ENERGICO; FURIOSO, TRANQUILLO-MESTO (6:45)
4) III. ARIOSO: ADAGIO CANTABILE (7:24)
5) IV. ALLEGRO-SEMPRE CON GRANDE PASSIONE E MOLTO MARCATO; LENTO-TRANQUILLISSIMO (9:31)
KRONOS QUARTET:
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
1993 Elektra/Nonesuch
1CD 9 79319-2
Note of "Henryk Górecki: Already It Is Dusk"
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