Górecki’s ‘Kyrie’ premiered in Warsaw
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
22.04.2014 14:20
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Górecki’s ‘Kyrie’ premiered in Warsaw. Michał Kubicki interviews Janis Susskind, managing director of Boosey and Hawkes, the publisher of Górecki’s music.
Just over a week after the Fourth Symphony by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki had its successful world premiere in London, another piece which had not been performed in the composer’s lifetime, was premiered at St John’s Cathedral in Warsaw.
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki. Photo: PAP
The 17 minute-long ‘Kyrie’ was performed by the Polish Radio Choir and the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra under Marek Moś.
Reporter Michał Kubicki interviews Janis Susskind, managing director of Boosey and Hawkes, the publisher of Górecki’s music, who came to Warsaw for the occasion.
Recalling her numerous meetings with the composer, she says: ‘He liked to make a little bit of mischief. He was not an easy man but he was a very kind man, even when he was being difficult.’
Górecki composed the ‘Kyrie’ in 2004 and 2005. It was meant to be the first part of a Mass, a project which was not completed by the composer due to his deteriorating health. He died in November 2010.