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Grecki: Symphony No.3: Il Lento E Largo
David Zinman Dawn Upshaw & London Sinfonietta Lyrics

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coaragdlm

16y↑2

I heard it for the first time inside a church in Mexico City. I'm quite sure, no one there spoke Polish to understand the words, but a lot of people there were moved to tears. I still remember the electrical feeling on the back of my body when I hear this piece. One of the most powerful moments in musical history. Try to listen the entire Symphony. You'll never forget it. Thank you for Sharing Beauty!

lesleynaughty

3y↑29

So powerful in these dark times when it looks as if it's happening again. I cried my eyes out.

Walters Smith

3y↑1

I am very happy and touched when I read your comment on this music channel, I would like to be your friend

bssp bssp

13y↑31

Thank you Gorecki for bringing this wonderful piece into our lives. May you rest in peace.

FuturoPasado

7y↑34

Gorecki's sorrowful songs are in my top 10 of greatest music works of the 20th century, this is just trascendent.

China Raven

5y↑1

Perfectly put.

Jonathan M

14y↑5

This symphony penetrates the very core of the soul evoking a series of such raw emotions that are sufficient to bring any human being to tears. Henrik Gorecki is simply a master!

Dazein

15y↑4

Gorecki sure does know how to make the tears flow....this is without doubt a simply beautiful masterpiece. Thank you for posting

tomestubbs

15y↑1

It's so poignant to have a beautiful Armenian woman sing this. It is heart wrenching and brings me 2 tears. I love this work and her delicate soulful interpretation of it.

Walters Smith

3y↑1

I am very happy and touched when I read your comment on this music channel, I would like to be your friend

tomestubbs

3y↑1

@Walters Smith Consider us friends.

Mark Seibold

15y↑1

What can be further said about this Gorecki masterpiece?! The music says it all!

Pandia Anderaos

13y↑1

A única certeza da vida é a morte, ai reside a grande justiça divina... Maestro, cumpriu muito bem o seu papel... meu ouvidos lhe são eternamente gratos... que o mundo espiritual o receba de braços abertos...

Lynn GUY

12y↑1

Just the most beautiful sorrowful piece of music I have ever heard and reflects the mood of the Holocaust which my grandfather was part of the liberation of.. So proud of him every day xxxx

coaragdlm

16y

Graham Nickerson

2y↑6

This song always makes we want to weep for the things people do to each other in the name of one ideology or other. The Holocaust, what it did to my grandparents and now what it is doing to people I know who are determined to repeat it. Let me always be a force of good in the world.

KimboHudson1

13y

Goodnight Gorecki......what a legacy you've left us all - thank you

Zdzisław Działecki

5y↑1

Piękne. Za każdym razem gdy tego słucham jestem bardzo wzruszony. Wykonanie Bayrakdaraian jest genialne

Peter Zwarts

14y↑1

This song really moves me to the bone and touches every nerve in my body.

Bassau

13y

Your music has touched me in ways few others have. With what you have done, I feel closer to you than I could through any other piece of music. Rest in piece old friend.

Nancy Ann

11y↑43

I first heard this beautiful heart wrenching masterpiece on WRTI classical radio. I dropped everything and started crying. My father was a camp liberator. He brought home photos of the horrors of what the Nazi's did and left behind. I am part Jewish. When I look at the horrid photos that will go to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. I cannot even begin to fathom how these poor souls could have managed seeing their loved ones being ripped from their arms. May their souls sing with angels

1234carramba

germans, NOT NAZIS !

Walters Smith

3y↑1

I am very happy and touched when I read your comment on this music channel, I would like to be your friend,

Isaac Simond

12y↑1

My grand parents are "just among the nations"....... So proud of them..... And what a wonderful song.....

Stephen Myers-Fulgham

8y↑26

The music and Isabel's voice are incredible. Thank you for lending memory to the thoughts and prayers of one of so many of Auschwitz's victims.

Tommaso Turek

So many.. how many.. they revised the made up number so many times.

Chris Strijbosch

3y↑3

and a deep respect for those how survived this black page in the history book. and came out of the camps
and brought the nazi tirrans thow there knees facing them in court, strong minds how survived this 5 years of hell on earth

Chris Strijbosch

3y↑1

and the inhuman nazi of hitler war machine

Saris Wilson

13y

a truly stunning piece of music which never fails to tug at all emotions.

Milly Poppinz

13y

Some music is made to capture your heart. This captures you, heart, mind, body and soul. Thank you Gorecki for sharing something so beautiful with the world.

Mark Seibold

14y

There are no words for the sorrow of death and suffering. Only great music like this can convey it properly.

Kalaisan Kalaichelvan

13y

A great man has passed to the heavens today. A man who was able to touch the soul with his music. Forever will this symphony make him immortal. Let us take a moment and weep for the passing of a great soul. R.I.P Henryk Gorecki

Lisa Lange

14y↑1

Free falling through the music....emotions expressed in this piece are deeply moving.

Walters Smith

I am very happy and touched when I read your comment on this music channel, I would like to be your friend

Gordon Bell

13y↑8

Very moving - it always amazes me how great artists can be so underappreciated, until they pass, leaving us to wonder in amazement.

Marie Larsson

5y↑46

I’ve been searching for this film ever since I saw it several years ago. This is the most beautiful and terrifying music I have ever heard. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Dutch Martin

3y↑2

The DVD is available by mailorder from the shop at Birkenau if your interested. It can be ordered online.

Clare Douglas

3y↑4

It was used in the BBC documentary, Auschwitz the Nazis and the Final Solution. And is available on DVD.

Eva Sanchez

@Clare Douglas I knew it sounded familiar

Chris Fitzgerald

3y↑3

It was also featured in Peter Weir's film "Fearless" which is one of the most underrated films I have ever seen. Blew me away.

Micromobile and Den Jackson Family

13y↑13

Rest in peace Henryk. Thank you for opening my heart. Your music will live on.

jimijazz2

16y

I heard this yesterday for the first time (the Naxos recording) through a very powerful set of speakers... and I was blown away, smiling and tearful. This is beautiful

Angie YB

33w

Me parece que es una pieza tan única que debería ser considera como una las mejores melodías del mundo.
La primera vez que escuché esta pieza fue por la película Beautiful boy; siempre serás mi hijo y las lágrimas empezaron a rodar por mis ojos. Existe un motivo del por qué lloré y es que no solo me recordó a un amigo con los mismo problemas que detalla la película, la misma pieza toca fibras sensibles del alma y es un momento de la melancolía, pero al mismo tiempo de paz.

jscott1000

16y

I heard the 2nd movement on XM, and knew that I had to have the whole symphony. I was not disappointed. The is one of the most moving pieces of music I have ever heard. I listed to it nearly every day

Marina Smith

12y↑3

Powerful, stunning, moving and an amazing tribute to those who died at the hands of the Nazis. This ladie's voice is nothing short of amazing and one can feel the emotion and power. Fantastic and forever memorable.

ustadkhanali

13y↑4

R.I.P. Henryk Gorecki. Thank you very much for your beautiful, haunting compositions.

TravellingL

Sometimes words alone cannot convey the sadness and horror of such an event and a beautiful and haunting piece of music, such as this, is required.

Martin Stepek

2y↑8

Just to clarify some points that I think have been misunderstood about this sublime piece of music, probably because of the setting of the beautiful film here. The music is not about The Holocaust, nor Auschwitz, nor were the words carved by a young woman in Auschwitz or any other death camp. All three pieces in this symphony are about the pain in terrible circumstances between mother and child. Being Polish, Gorecki took three different periods in Polish history, and used words/prayers/lyrics written by or about mother/child.
So it is about universal maternal love and grief. Of course, the horrors of The Holocaust spring first to mind but in this piece the words were carved in a Gestapo prison by a teenage girl, who escaped, survived the war, and went on to become a mother herself. She was Catholic.
I think the music is so powerful and moving that it is fitting to be associated with the remembrance of the horrors of Auschwitz (where 13 of my grandfather's Polish neighbours died) and The Holocaust, but it was not what Gorecki himself stated the work was about.

Silvana Sarti

2y↑3

Parece que esses dias escuros estão para se repetir, que a arte nos possa salvar. "Faz escuro mas eu canto".

sharky123

13y

Thank you for this - and so much more. Rest in peace, dear Maestro.

bevscorner

16y

How sadly fitting to perform this there. It's unimaginable what this eighteen-year-old girl must have suffered to write so inspired a message that also would inspire Gorecki to compose this piece. He said once about the sadness of this war, "Those things are too immense -- you can't write music about them." But, it seems here he did. Thanks for the vid.

Phased Spaces

15y

Oh i don't know ... at 5:55 in Dawn's version .. she Melts into the key modulation in a way that is Achingly beautiful! Both interpretations of No.3 by both singers are sublime, & should never be diminished to 'one is better than the other'

tim2tahoe

13y↑1

What an incredibly moving song! I'm ashamed that I have never heard this before...our planet lost a great composer today-Rest in Peace, Maestro....

Antonio Moreno

13y↑2

Música que toca el alma. Descanse en paz.

Wendywoo Peck

13y

This is such a moving song , it always makes me cry .

Mooninadewdrop

13y

RIP to a pioneer, responsible for some of the most moving music ever written.

coaragdlm

16y

Just as I felt the tears coming down 5 moths ago when I wrote a comment about the 'Symphony of Sorrows', still in tears. So powerful... You have to listen to Down Upshaw's version.

Andre C.

13y

It takes a lot for me to be moved to tears, but this has me crying like a baby.

Tosem ja

13y

Wieczny odpoczynek racz mu dać Panie...

Sepharite

16y

I listen to it whenever it rains. It engulfs me in incomparable intensity of joy, and sorrow. Thank you. =)

Jan Kowalski

15y

Dziekuje Panu Goreckiemu za te uduchowiona muzyke

Charles Corcoran

4y↑5

so moving, mournful, important! Always brings tears to my eyes....

Erik John Reyes

12y↑1

"Perhaps people find something they need in this piece of music […] somehow I hit the right note, something they were missing. Something somewhere had been lost to them. I feel that I instinctively knew what they needed." - Henryk Gorecki This piece is a medium that resonates within the heart, within the soul, within the mind. It is something that evokes our sorrows deep within; something that reminds us much of nostalgia with much longing and grief.

wright27

15y

it makes me cry. a voice of real feeling, a voice of real heart. god bless you for posting this loving song

Raúl Daniel Aguilar Souza

9y↑29

I got a feeling so strong, this theme thrilled me till my tears came down. Beautiful sorrowful composition.

ricardo t

13y↑1

DESCANSE EN PAZ EL GRAN MAESTRO GORECKI!

Pstroz2010

13y

I'm overwhelmed by the power of this composition. RIP Henryk.

Ivan Greindl

11y

Limiting my comments to the music itself, I'm always listening to the 3d symphony with a deep emotion; since so many years it always has the same effect on me... H. Górecki was geniously inspired by Poland's tragical Hisory.

Antonio Orlando

11y

Stupendo.Nei momenti più tragici resta sempre una speranza e una Donna a cui affidarsi.Gorecki profondamente umano.

The Joe Apparition

13y

I once said that this piece of music has "the visceral emotion impact of a jackhammer to the teeth." It still does. On this, Christmas night, may we all learn to be better as a species. God help us, one and all.

SirKnwell

14y↑1

Hermosa versión y video!!!

Nigel Fortune

13y

God bless you Henryk Gorecki. Your music will live forever. R.I.P.

Riobaldo Tatarana

14y

essa música faz meu coração tremer

RAFOFUKUROU

11y

EXCELENTE, magistral interpretación, conecta la música con el alma.

Andrés Merino Velásquez

16y

This master piece is a gift for all mankind H.M.Gorecki, You are a Genius!!!!

Ian K

Epic. This always sends chills down my spine.

Wendy Ryan

Prayers for the world 🌸🌸🙏🌸🌸
Such a piece of work
So special to honour the loss
Yet it still happens
❤️🙏❤️peace

PhantomDrums917

13y

Heard this for the first time tonight while driving home. I've visited internment camps in Germany many years ago, but nothing hit as hard as listening to this music and watching this video. Rest in peace...

jjjjmmmm

8y↑23

Absolutely stunning and beautiful. Has always been a favorite. To see it in this presentation adds even more depth to it.

Sally Ann Loveday

12y↑5

Heart-aching and soul-wrenchingly stunning.. So beautifully sung and played, in such a place too, where unimaginable horrors occurred.. I am crying as I type this.. Absolutely stunning, this music moves me to my very core and beyond... :0(x

Chris Strijbosch

4y↑1

but also the will to the surive for this people and the brought the nazi tirrans to iets knees and in the trails facing them eye to eye and justice took it over a deep respect of the holocaust surivors

Andres Guerra

3y↑1

Que belleza, me encanta!! ❤️

bevscorner

16y

Yes, I see what you mean. She's either sighing or she's terribly cold. But, she does seem to breathe out instead of in. So, beautiful. I've listened to it several times too.

Tomasz Rusin

8y↑39

I am proud to live in Silesia where Gorecki and Kilar composed their Music. I love them so much and I miss them so much. They brought back classic music in 20th/21st century. Mozart, Bethoven and Bach............ Gorecki and Kilar.... So perfect..... The Bulletproof Musicians

Homer smith

rightly so my friend

Dawid P

O tak, również jestem niezmiernie dumny z tego, że przez przypadek urodziłem się w tym rejonie.

james christie

11y↑1

Górecki said of the work, "Many of my family died in concentration camps. I had a grandfather who was in Dachau, an aunt in Auschwitz. You know how it is between Poles and Germans. But Bach was a German too—and Schubert, and Strauss. Everyone has his place on this little earth. That's all behind me. So the Third Symphony is not about war; it's not a Dies Irae; it's a normal Symphony of Sorrowful Songs."

Nath clarisse

14y

jamais rien entendu d'aussi touchant...émotion à l'état pur.

jools Pirog

16y

Haughntingly beautiful. Thank you so much, puts shivers down my spine.

Phil Anderson

13y

This entire video was extremely well done. The performance, composition, all of it.

Mariana Partarrieu

7y↑7

Nunca, nunca me cansaré de escucharla....!!

johannesnicolaas

10y↑34

Manuy years ago I heard this music during the Holland Festival. As soon as I heard the violins starting to play, my body started to tremble. There I was in a big room with hundreds of people. Nowhere to go. At the end I was sweeting and shaking all over.
This never happened before or since.

Mr. M4NG

16y

this is an incredible piece. the setting is just incredible. very moving.

roerfluit

13y

May you rest in peace. Your symphonies, and alter the beautiful string quartets, opened my mind,- I am very grateful.

Jo Zee

8y↑28

Last evening, The Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra played this peace to a packed house. My husband is the Principal Bassist in the orchestra and he said it's very hard to play this piece. You really have to admire those men and woman who donate their time so we the public can still hear the incredible music the composers of the past have left us to enjoy!

James Barlow

Albuquerque, no kidding. When I lived there in '85 it seemed like one had to go to Santa Fe for anything worthwhile (!)

Michael O Hagan

6y↑2

The most soul searching piece of music I have ever heard... Never tire of listening to this.

Fidelio Gris

13y

R.I.P MASTER GORECKI. YOUR MUSIC WILL ALWAYS BE AN INSPIRATION.

Peter Zwarts

10y↑1

I've seen this clip over and over. Still keeps sending chills down my spine.
It's so impressing.

Milton Valdebenito Iturrieta

10y↑4

Hermosa y conmovedora, además de saber el origen de esta magnífica obra, la composición causa una angustia muy grande.

Paul Dirac

13y

Haunting...Her voice is beautiful as is the music. RIP HG.

JakoTako Szmato

13y

My teacher told me about Górecki. Once they analysed together something from Brahms in Katowice... it´s hard to write a comment while having goosebumps...

dandyarsenic

14y

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.

buffalocrotch

16y

amsgal - you summed it up. This is such a powerful piece. People can be capable of such horrific twisted selfish acts, but then again, people can act with such an amazing sense of compassion and such a wonderful level of humanity.

Ryan Pagels

13y

I've heard this Symphony before, but this interpretation on top of the film..... wow. No words.

wormswithteeth

16y

Fasernating way to get lyrics for what is a moving symphony. But lets us get to know his other music it is only fair. If it is as good as this then why not? Górecki) will be 74 on December the 6th so that is certainly something to celebrate. Any soprano who does this work is blessed. I will never forget it. It is up there with Shostakovich's 4th Symphony, Stravinsky's Petrushka and Oliver Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony. Pure bliss.............

bssp bssp

16y↑4

One of my personal favourite renditions of this haunting symphony is by Dawn Upshaw with the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman. You can get that through Amazon.

marilyn gable

3y↑4

I live in London. Tonight there was a film on t.v. called "Beautiful Boy". This beautiful and emotive piece of music, was an accompaniment to one of the scenes. It 'touched' my soul. I had never heard it before, so once I stopped crying, had to find out more, and found myself here. 'Blubbing' once again!

Akito

It's absolutely beautiful you are right!! What was the film about if I must ask?

marilyn gable

@Akito You need to watch it for yourself! I'm sure it will be somewhere online.

Sigma Orion

16y↑3

Outstanding piece of music, no words to describe how I feel and how it makes me feel when I listen to this piece.

kalinkacat

11y

One of the most beautiful pieces ever made.

envox

13y↑8

The whole symphony is one of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever heard. Lest we forget........

inspiration1able

13y↑3

Heart-rendingly beautiful, I have always loved this musical agony as I can feel the pain in the notes.

Michael O Hagan

Absolutely heart rendering music to me the most moving yet in a way uplifting music I have ever heard. (uplifting in a sense it puts life in perspective)

taliaq

13y

Rest in Peace, and thanks for all your beautiful music

Karl Létourneau

13y

La musique est un langage unique, qui ne s'explique pas par les mots. un bel exemple ici...reposez en paix, Maître!

Berdj Achdjian

8y↑2

1 221 555 views ! I am amazed ! I love Isabel Bayrakdarian and I am very happy that so many persons had the opportunity to hear her interpretation of this very exceptionnal pîece of music written by Gorecki / for those you want to understand better this piece of music / it is the love of a mother for her child which is the first feeling that Gorecki wanted to translate in his symphony /

Ellecram

Such heartbreaking sounds. From a heart wrenching time.

Anna Dziewulska

8y↑20

May they never be forgotten.......may they forever be remembered and may we never repeat the mistakes of their killers.

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