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Beth Gibbons
- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Mar 29, 2019
- Artist(s): Krzysztof Penderecki
- Summary: The collaboration between the Portishead singer and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki was recorded live in Warsaw on November 29th, 2014.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Classical, Vocal Music, Symphony
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Apr 2, 2019Gibbons and Penderecki deserve enormous credit for their approach, which is at once determinedly studied but also gloriously instinctive, Gibbons getting to the very heart of the music and the way it is made with her whole heart.
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Mar 29, 2019Gibbons' voice complements the music perfectly.
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Apr 4, 2019Agora is both a return to form and a leap into the abyss.
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UncutMar 28, 2019She brings Gorecki's great classical prayer to life beautifully, an expression of empathy that feels deep and profound. [May 2019, p.25]
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MojoMar 28, 2019Gibbons rises to the occasion. [May 2019, p.89]
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Q MagazineMar 28, 2019It's a thing of grief-blasted beauty, and Gibbons brings tender pain to these words of lost children and mothers, her voice rising and falling impressively to the the occasion. [May 2019, p.112]
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May 1, 2019This recording renders music back into its essence, that language that, instead of communicating meanings, is, as Adorno has it, the human attempt, doomed as ever, to name the Name, which has been dispersed.
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