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9.0
110408
9.0 |
Under The Radar
Full of the kind of gravitas and solemnity you'd expect from a piece with its title.
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9.0
110461
9.0 |
musicOMH
This is a special document indeed, one that reinforces the power of music to communicate on its own raw terms – and one that is wonderfully packaged by Domino, dressing it up like a well-worn piece of classical vinyl
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8.0
110470
8.0 |
Pitchfork
The Portishead singer and conductor (and film-music icon) Krzysztof Penderecki deliver a surprisingly disquieting take on Górecki’s canonical symphony, a piece so familiar that it’s often taken for granted
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8.0
110409
8.0 |
Exclaim
If you need an entry point into an incredibly potent piece, Gibbons and company offer a take on Symphony of Sorrowful Songs that lingers
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8.0
110410
8.0 |
PopMatters
With Portishead's Beth Gibbons as the soprano, Henryk Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is hoisted into modernity and emblematic of the contemporary political and social turbulence
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8.0
110411
8.0 |
The Guardian
Where previous versions have been eerily transcendent, Gibbons’s quiet, demotic vulnerability makes this both more harrowing and emotionally engaging
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8.0
110412
8.0 |
Uncut
She brings Gorecki's great classical prayer to life beautifully, an expression of empathy that feels deep and profound
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8.0
110413
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Mojo
Gibbons rises to the occasion. Print edition only
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110414
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Q
It's a thing of grief-blasted beauty, and Gibbons brings tender pain to these words of lost children and mothers. Print edition only
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8.0
110428
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All Music
An affecting example of Gibbons' willingness to take her music in unexpected - but ultimately winning - directions
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8.0
110429
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Under the baton of Krzysztof Penderecki, who is widely regarded as Poland’s greatest living composer and conductor, Gibbons delivers a masterful vocal rendition of a symphony that captures the horror, desolation and catastrophic loss of war
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7.0
110693
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
The unique tone of this new recording — with Krzysztof Penderecki conducting the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Beth Gibbons, the ghostly voice of Portishead’s angst, soloing — is due to the fact that it returns the work by insisting on its illusory nature, to that which it always was merely a thing, a bareness, a scar
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