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"The most innovative ensemble in Britain today." -- BBC Radio 3 This recording by leading British chamber ensemble Chamber Domaine celebrates the 75th birthday of one of the world's most popular living composers. Górecki's worldwide fame is largely due to the commercial success of his best known work, the 3rd Symphony, A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. A recording in 1992 by Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta sold in excess of a million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful classical music recordings of all time and catapulting its veteran composer into the media spotlight. There is a wealth of beautiful music by Górecki that has rarely been heard. Chamber Domaine's approach on this recording, which contains no less than seven world premieres, is to present an overview of his varied output from intimate pieces composed during his studies in the 1950s to large-scale ensemble works published after his commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Chamber Domaine is at the cutting edge of music making in the 21st century. Its excellence and dynamism have received widespread acclaim in the United Kingdom and abroad.