David Dalle
Thursday June 28th, 2018 with David Dalle
Remembrance of Things Past: rare music from Henryk Gorecki and other strangeness to disturb your summer tranquility.

Today's show is built around a new recording featuring one of Henryk Gorecki's more unusual pieces, his 1986 Lerchenmusik. Recitatives and ariosos, op. 53 for clarinet, cello, and piano. This work was a commission he received in 1983 from Danish countess Louise Lerche-Lerchenborg. Gorecki claimed this commission and the resulting work, as well as the support from Lerche-Lerchenborg was instrumental in reviving his creativity. This trio was his first chamber piece in over a decade, but many other compositions followed it. It is a strange, lengthy work in 3 slow, pensive movements with a few violent outbursts, ending in a truly wonderful movement built on a quotation from Sunday Vespers combining with a theme from Beethoven's 4th piano concerto. We will also hear some great Jazz from a new recording from drummer Harris Eisenstadt and his Canada Day Quartet, and other strangeness.