The song People, My People is the basis of the first movement of his Harpsichord Concerto, and his own Lieder include Broad Waters and a song based on Federico Garcia Lorca's poem "Malagueña."
Choral pieces by this composer include O, My Garden of Lavender and Dark Evening Is Falling. The song People, My People is the basis of the first movement of his Harpsichord Concerto, and his own Lieder include Broad Waters and a song based on Federico Garcia Lorca's poem "Malagueña." A series of recitatives and ariostos make up his Lerchenmusik, and scandal surrounded the premiere of this composer's appropriately-titled Collisions for orchestra. Other well-known works include the Genesis cycle and the choral work Refren, but he is best-known for a work whose third movement notably references one of Chopin's Mazurkas and the first movement of Eroica. A note scribbled on the wall of a Gestapo cell provides the text for the second movement of that work, which was popularized by a recording featuring vocals by Dawn Upshaw. Best- known for his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, this is, for ten points, what composer from Poland?
Choral pieces by this composer include O, My Garden of Lavender and Dark Evening Is Falling.
Henryk {Gorecki}