Tonight we hear Polish composer Henryk Górecki's most famous work, the Symphony No. 3, or "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs." Texts heard in the work include a 15th Century religious poem, a message scrawled on the wall of a Gestapo prison in 1944, and a folksong about a mother searching for her son.
Górecki's Journey
Henryk Górecki remained virtually unknown outside musical circles until tonight's recording of the Symphony No. 3 swept the charts world-wide. The catch is, the symphony had been around for 15 years and had been recorded before, but it seemed no one was paying attention until 1992. Górecki himself was amazed ...
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