#górecki

[noivern]

[shy-girl04]

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

A solo soprano sings Polish texts in each of the three movements.

The first is a 15th-century Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus.

The second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II.

The third a Silesian folk song of a mother searching for her son killed by the Germans in the Silesian uprisings.

The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child, and the second movement from that of a child separated from a parent.

The dominant themes of the symphony are motherhood, despair and suffering.

[adrianoesteves]

[zekeen]

[shutupcris]

Henryk Górecki - III Symfonia op. 36 “Symfonia pieśni żałosnych” Polish national radio symphony orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor), Beth Gibbons (soprano)

Gracias por tanto, música.

[ryannims]

At the risk of shoring my Gen-X roots, I have yet to hear an interpretation of Górecki’s 3rd Symphony that hasn’t pretty much blown me away. It may have touched a Western cultural zeitigest of trendy classical minimalism in the 1990s, but this piece is legit. If there’s a more influential work in contemporary classical music, I am at a loss to come up with one. #Górecki #Classical #PostRock #AvantGarde (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM49lNChUaq/?igshid=1a6l3fi2ldifm

[lilasoundscape]

[kluzol]

SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS BY HENRYK GÓRECKI

III. Lento - Cantabile - Semplice