• News from Nonesuch

Nonesuch Records has announced a number of Górecki releases for September 2015. Prime among them is a recording of the premiere of the Fourth Symphony, given by the London PO under Andrey Boreyko in April 2014.  This recording will also be available as part of a 7-CD box set that will bring together all of Nonesuch’s previous releases of Górecki’s music:

• Euntes ibant et flebant (1972) • Amen (1975) • Symphony 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ (1976) • Broad Waters (1979) • Harpsichord Concerto (1980) • Miserere (1981) • My Vistula, Grey Vistula (1981) • Lerchenmusik (1984) • String Quartet 1 ‘Already It Is Dusk’ (1988) • Good Night (1990) • String Quartet 2 ‘ Quasi una fantasia’ (1991) • Little Requiem (1993) • String Quartet 3 ‘… songs are sung’ (1995/2005) • Symphony 4 ‘Tansman Episodes’ (2006; completed by Mikołaj Górecki)

Nonesuch is also promising a release of Symphony 3 on LP.

• UPDATE, 16 September 2015: Nonesuch has postponed the launch until January 2016.