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Henryk Górecki - Symphony #3, 1st movement, featuring Dawn Upshaw
(This video is "age-restricted" due to disturbing images.)
Henryk Górecki's "Symphony #3," Second movement performed by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Zinman and featuring soloist Dawn Upshaw.
The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. It was premièred on 4 April 1977, at the Royan International Festival, with Stefania Woytowicz as soprano and Ernest Bour as conductor.
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; and 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. The libretto of the second movement uses the words of a teenage girl, Helena Błażusiakówna (Helena Błażusiak), which she wrote on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane to invoke the protection of the Virgin Mary.
Until 1992, Górecki was known only to connoisseurs, primarily as one of several composers from the Polish School responsible for the postwar Polish music renaissance. That year, Elektra-Nonesuch released a recording of the 15-year-old symphony performed by the London Sinfonietta featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. The recording topped the classical charts in Britain and the United States and became a world-wide critical and popular success.
This video is a recording of the second half of the first movement of the Symphony, the Lento-Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile. The video features Dawn Upshaw singing against a backdrop of video footage from the Holocaust, as German officers and German civilians were forced by American liberation troops to bury the dead from Mauthausen camp in Austria.
One of the officers described the scene:
"In May 1945, an American army unit was deployed to the Mauthausen camp in Austria to bulldoze mass graves for the victims. German civilians, on US orders, were forced to haul bodies to the mass graves
From the German civilians nearby, we started to get the...those people to come up by the truckload and we told them to dress in their Sunday best, and then we made them dig graves, and...uh...we wanted them to see what was going on and then we had them carry the bodies, load the bodies in the wagons. We took wagonload after wagonload of bodies out to the grave site, which was the soccer field or the sport...uh...they call it the sport Platz. And...uh...we made the Germans handle, load them up in the wagons from inside the camp, take them down to the, the...um...graveyard, the grave site, and unload them, put them down in the graves, side by side, by the hundreds--there'd be 150 people or so in a row--and side, practically on top of each other. They were such, they were all skin and bones, and it was--I have pictures of them and movies--but the...um...uh...bodies were...uh...were so emaciated that you, you, you, you couldn't possibly understand how those people were alive and walking around."
Henryk Górecki's "Symphony #3," Second movement performed by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Zinman and featuring soloist Dawn Upshaw.
The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. It was premièred on 4 April 1977, at the Royan International Festival, with Stefania Woytowicz as soprano and Ernest Bour as conductor.
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; and 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. The libretto of the second movement uses the words of a teenage girl, Helena Błażusiakówna (Helena Błażusiak), which she wrote on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane to invoke the protection of the Virgin Mary.
Until 1992, Górecki was known only to connoisseurs, primarily as one of several composers from the Polish School responsible for the postwar Polish music renaissance. That year, Elektra-Nonesuch released a recording of the 15-year-old symphony performed by the London Sinfonietta featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. The recording topped the classical charts in Britain and the United States and became a world-wide critical and popular success.
This video is a recording of the second half of the first movement of the Symphony, the Lento-Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile. The video features Dawn Upshaw singing against a backdrop of video footage from the Holocaust, as German officers and German civilians were forced by American liberation troops to bury the dead from Mauthausen camp in Austria.
One of the officers described the scene:
"In May 1945, an American army unit was deployed to the Mauthausen camp in Austria to bulldoze mass graves for the victims. German civilians, on US orders, were forced to haul bodies to the mass graves
From the German civilians nearby, we started to get the...those people to come up by the truckload and we told them to dress in their Sunday best, and then we made them dig graves, and...uh...we wanted them to see what was going on and then we had them carry the bodies, load the bodies in the wagons. We took wagonload after wagonload of bodies out to the grave site, which was the soccer field or the sport...uh...they call it the sport Platz. And...uh...we made the Germans handle, load them up in the wagons from inside the camp, take them down to the, the...um...graveyard, the grave site, and unload them, put them down in the graves, side by side, by the hundreds--there'd be 150 people or so in a row--and side, practically on top of each other. They were such, they were all skin and bones, and it was--I have pictures of them and movies--but the...um...uh...bodies were...uh...were so emaciated that you, you, you, you couldn't possibly understand how those people were alive and walking around."
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Angelic voice
Voya llorar por que canta hermoso como un angel es una pena q se aiga ido
LOVE EM BUT NOT A GOOD SONG.
Best 3 minutes of my life listening to music.
Best Carpenters track ever. No oboe. No sticky sweet chorus. Karen at her finest.
wHAT A GORGEOUS SONG , DONE NOTE-PERFECT BY RICH & KAREN. RIP, KAREN. -------------MJL, 77 Y/O
August 2024
I'm a proud country bumpkin ky girl 53 and I've had been that ❤
Absolutely love her voice. But, Kermit and his version is the ultimate perfection.
Otherworldly talent
It’s like she can sing an entire song on three breaths
This song never gets old! August 2, 2024
miss him so much!
I believe this therapist. The mother and Richard were complicit.
Hope it is OK I posted it on Facebook I love Karen Carpenter.
priceless!
Queen of the Soundtracks - love "The Towering Inferno" theme too
God bless Karen.
Just lost my best friend this song makes me think of her miss her so much.
My ma just passed this last Saturday😢 I am sure she is with dad right now...they are reunited
Far too sad to consider.
Could there ever be more beautiful words? ❤
Karen is STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL in this performance !!! What a Gift For Our Lord!!!!
Dedicated to my beautiful spirited jasmine,which passed away on April 2, 2020. Missing you so much love.
Friends of Dolly's
The Sopranos (L)
Up until 5 minutes ago I thought this was only a Carpenters song. I stand corrected.
She has such an amazing voice.
I first heard cal Smith sing this in the early 1970's I was just a kid now I'm 62 and never tire or hearing this song! It's 100% country pure Gold.
Agnes has got a nerve blaming models.. If you've heard Karen's story then you'll know Agnes is 100 percent to blame. How can a mother not be able to say "I love you" to her own daughter? And she's raving about only Richard here, nothing about Karen's talent.. Urgh!
I wish Richard had made it more clear that anorexia is also an emotional disorder, not just "thin is in". He'd been to family therapy where their vile mother Agnes couldn't bring herself to tell Karen "I love you" so he knew the deal. I blame Agnes entirely.
Gn beautiful place to live who's knows
So unfair
Great dance song.
I wonder how this song would sound if Karen performed it. Something is certainly missing😢
See Leonid and Friends new version posted here (and FB), featuring Russian star Ksenia Buzina - another great version!
Why are the printed words all wrong!! Its strange. Love Dolly!!!
Underrated song ❤
This is the kind of Karent that the present day Karen should emulate
Written by Leon Russel!
❤Every Time I Listen To This Song I Think About My Husband Frank He Was My Country Bumpkin ❤RIP Frank ❤I Still Miss You ❤
Keep your lamps burning 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥..come Lord Jesus🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥stay focused on HIM❤
Beautiful I got chills
I am married to country bumpkin in Tennessee / Kentucky area and he is the Greatest man i know and i love him with all my being and i know there is no other out there like him ❤❤❤❤❤
As Brian mentioned below, Tori Holub sang this at the Carpenters 55th. She then went home and re-recorded it as the “Studio Version.” If you don’t know about Tori, or you haven’t heard this rendition. Buckle your seatbelt. This may be the answer to the question we all asked… czcams.com/video/3JP9CNs9YV4/video.htmlsi=LQ81NX0YDEF0ufOR .
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Im so lucky on one hand ,, i have my ma &pa living with my wife and I ,,they will be married on Thanksgiving for 56 yrs,so i k ow what my mom says and will go through ,my wife lost both of her parents 2 and 3 yrs ago
So sad that someone who struggled with so many demons herself had the voice of an angel.
This is real country music not that crap they play today
It's my favorite too 🎉