Gorecki Symphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs" - Lento e Largo
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2007
- Soprano: Isabel Bayrakdaraian, Sinfonietta Cracovia, conducted by John Axelrod.
Taken from "HOLOCAUST - A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz". For the first time since its liberation, permission was granted for music to be
heard in Auschwitz and a number of leading musicians were brought there to perform music for the film. - Hudba
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.
Thank you Gorecki for bringing this wonderful piece into our lives.
May you rest in peace.
Gorecki's sorrowful songs are in my top 10 of greatest music works of the 20th century, this is just trascendent.
Perfectly put.
So powerful in these dark times when it looks as if it's happening again. I cried my eyes out.
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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
germans, NOT NAZIS !
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For my Dad, Tadeus Dominiczak, for all the silent years, tis only now that I understand at least some of it.. I will forever speak with you..
He’s in heaven with all our ancestors looking at us in amazement =no sacrifice undone
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.
The DVD is available by mailorder from the shop at Birkenau if your interested. It can be ordered online.
It was used in the BBC documentary, Auschwitz the Nazis and the Final Solution. And is available on DVD.
@@claredouglas6067 I knew it sounded familiar
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.
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.
So many.. how many.. they revised the made up number so many times.
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
and the inhuman nazi of hitler war machine
Rest in peace Henryk. Thank you for opening my heart. Your music will live on.
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.
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!
This is the most moving music i have ever heard.....It has changed my priorities in life for evernore ..
For me this is the saddest piece of music I have every heard... Rips my heart right out of my chest... Jeez...
The first time I ever heard this symphony was when my husband and I were driving in our car...listening to CBC Radio... and this exquisite, amazing, heart rending, most beautiful music began...( Second part..with Dawn Upshaw the soloist) . I yelled to my husband to stop the car! stop the car! I had to listen to it in silence. May God surround Mr. Gorecki with His infinite Love always.
+Karin Ferguson In 1994, I had an experience similar to yours, on a winter night in North Carolina, about 30km from where Miss Upshaw came of age. It was the second movement. My wife and I had never heard of Gorecki before. Hearing this music, my life turned a corner. To me, it was blatant that Gorecki was mourning what Poles, Jew and gentile alike, went through 1939-45. My mother survived the Nazi occupation of France, 1940-44.
+alnot01 dear alnot01...
my husband Ian and I were in the Canadian Military and lived in Germany from 1954 to 1957. we were driving along the Autobahn and we saw the town of Dachau...so, we drove in to see the situation for ourselves....this was only a few years after the end of the war. There are nooooooo words to describe the horror. The music of Gorecki tells it as it was. My husband and I are Bahais, and have been to Israel a number of times...mostly to Mt. Carmel in Haifa... May the consuming hatred of those who uphold terrorism die with themselves to allow for
the ultimate Oneness of humanity to emerge. God's precious blessings upon your family dear.
Karin Ferguson
I want to make a pilgrimage to Auschwitz, but my health rules out international travel. Despite my age, I still have teenage children.
15 years ago, I had a long talk with the student leader of the Bahai movement in a New Zealand (my country) university. He explained to me the measures taken by the UHJ to make it harder for terrorist ever to arise amongst Bahai.
I know that Mt Carmel is the holy place for Bahais, and have noted that the fact that the UHJ is located in Jewish Israel has caused zero problems since 1948. But I deplore the apartheid triumphalism that pervades Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, and prefer to not set foot in that country until it sees the error in its ways.
Our time is a dark time for humanity, perhaps the darkest time since the Berlin air lift: Russia, Ukraine, France, Belgium, UK, Syria, much of the Middle East, North Korea, Venezuela. Relations between the genders in the first world are at a low ebb.
+alnot01. My husband Ian and I are in our mid 80's.. and we also curtail our travels somewhat. In Haifa, the Palestinians ,Jews and Bahai's seem at One, Mr. Alnot. I would like to go back one more time...but it is just wishful thinking. Have never been to N.Z. we have moved 33 times ... in 62 years of marriage...and presently live in Nova Scotia.
sincerely, Karin a Ferguson.
Me too. I was in the car headed to book club in the evening and this came on CBC. I too stopped outside the house and listened to it all before going in - It was sung by Dawn Upshaw... Stunning music. It probably was in 1994 as someone else recollects.
I got a feeling so strong, this theme thrilled me till my tears came down. Beautiful sorrowful composition.
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
rightly so my friend
O tak, również jestem niezmiernie dumny z tego, że przez przypadek urodziłem się w tym rejonie.
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!
It's absolutely beautiful you are right!! What was the film about if I must ask?
@@akito7025 You need to watch it for yourself! I'm sure it will be somewhere online.
so moving, mournful, important! Always brings tears to my eyes....
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!
Albuquerque, no kidding. When I lived there in '85 it seemed like one had to go to Santa Fe for anything worthwhile (!)
Very moving - it always amazes me how great artists can be so underappreciated, until they pass, leaving us to wonder in amazement.
Absolutely stunning and beautiful. Has always been a favorite. To see it in this presentation adds even more depth to it.
R.I.P. Henryk Gorecki. Thank you very much for your beautiful, haunting compositions.
THANK YOU!! Tears are great connectors to all of us
No words other than "Thank you".
Tooo Beautiful, I am crying!!!! for real. Good job Isabel.
Gorecki sure does know how to make the tears flow....this is without doubt a simply beautiful masterpiece. Thank you for posting
Henryk Gorecki died on 12 November, 2010 at the age of 76. Requiescat in pace.
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!
My father was a camp liberator. He brought home photos. It was horrific. God have mercy on their innocent souls.
I wish I had been with your Father to help him. God bless you and your Father.
My Grandfather was part of the occuping force on Okinawa. He was one of the people who found the civilians in the caves. He never really spoke about what he experienced when he was over there. My Dad says he was very withdrawn and almost seemed detached. And that I wouldn't have liked him if I had gotten to meet him (he died before I was born.)
All those innocent 250,000 souls that died of typhus and malnutrition thanks to the nasty Brits bombing the food convoys so even the German guards went hungry.
@@TommyTCGT and if that didn't happen, the war would have taken longer and Nazis would have Murdered more. They sowed the wind....
My aunties were young girls when the camp was liberated. Your father saved their lives. Thank you on our behalf.
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
This really moves me. Sometimes I feel some of the pain and the guilt for what humans have done to one another - because, after all, as human beings we are all responsible in some part.
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I was only 15 when I first heard this portion of the symphony, and being a callous youth, I placed a superficial attachment to it - it was melodic, beautiful and forgettable at the time.
Now I know that the words were from an 18-year old girl who was separated from her mother, I have learnt to appreciate it better. And by better I mean I cry each time I hear this.
As I am doing right now.
Never fails to bring tears to my eyes
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.
The most soul searching piece of music I have ever heard... Never tire of listening to this.
Piękne. Za każdym razem gdy tego słucham jestem bardzo wzruszony. Wykonanie Bayrakdaraian jest genialne
Beautiful breathtaking piece!! It makes me break down in tears!! Thank you!!
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Nunca, nunca me cansaré de escucharla....!!
A beautiful human creation in retaliation to horrendous human acts. I am moved to tears.
You couldn't have said it better.
Thank you for this Most Beautiful and soul searching music.
Amazing. I resounded to the music a few years ago when I fist heard it. Now with the addition of the visuals; it rocks my soul.
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As a 50 year old Scottish man brought up never to show his emotions (real men don't cry ) this reduces me to a crying child,,, i have visited Poland many times and visited the death camps,, but combined with this music, my god its so powerful
Kevmac Glasgow
Heart-rendingly beautiful, I have always loved this musical agony as I can feel the pain in the notes.
May they never be forgotten.......may they forever be remembered and may we never repeat the mistakes of their killers.
The whole symphony is one of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever heard.
Lest we forget........
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
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
May you rest in peace.
Your symphonies, and alter the beautiful string quartets, opened my mind,- I am very grateful.
I've seen this clip over and over. Still keeps sending chills down my spine.
It's so impressing.
Could this be more beautiful and sorrowful?
Outstanding piece of music, no words to describe how I feel and how it makes me feel when I listen to this piece.
This chills to the bone, but is beautiful all in the same moment.
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....
incredibly sad, incredibly beautiful.
it makes me cry. a voice of real feeling, a voice of real heart. god bless you for posting this loving song
Free falling through the music....emotions expressed in this piece are deeply moving.
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Prayers for the world 🌸🌸🙏🌸🌸
Such a piece of work
So special to honour the loss
Yet it still happens
❤️🙏❤️peace
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.
I remember the first time I heard this piece of music. So instantly powerful and from such a deep place .... I just sat there crying. It's one of those rare compositions that takes you to another place .... in this case, Auschwitz, and the darkest places of the human soul...
Heart wrenching...So moving...
yes! that is my fav recording. I've been in love with this symphony for years, its just so amazingly composed.
Haughntingly beautiful. Thank you so much, puts shivers down my spine.
"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.
Poignant, moving, utterly beautiful, exquisite...food for the soul.
!!!!Gracias!!!. Terrible y profunda protesta desde el corazón.
Thank you so much for posting this. It breaks my heart every single time.
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Heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Even if one did not know that it was inspired by Auschwitz, it would still be one of the most moving pieces of classical music ever composed
+Stephan Bodini But the saddest music remains Lento Lacrimoso by K. James Peace.
Mrs Gurusu, Singapore
+Anita Gurusu Interesting - I don't know 'Lento Lacrimoso'; will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
Why not listen to happy music, Vivaldi, Donizetti, Bellini, Hayden, Bizet, Mozart, why listen to this miserable piece based mainly on a hoax..
Your music has lifted me up for so long. RIP
This is so beautiful...both the images and the music.
My grand parents are "just among the nations"....... So proud of them..... And what a wonderful song.....
Amazing. Beautiful. Tragic. Well done.
Poignant-Evocative-Stunning and Simply Beautiful.
Hermosa y conmovedora, además de saber el origen de esta magnífica obra, la composición causa una angustia muy grande.
Lyric (in translation):
Mother, Mother
Mother do not cry
Queen of Heaven
Protect me always.
Where has he gone
My dearest son?
Perhaps during the uprising
The cruel enemy killed him
Ah, you bad people
In the name of God, the most Holy,
Tell me, why did you kill
My son?
Never again
Will I have his support
Even if I cry
My old eyes out
Were my bitter tears
to create another River Oder
They would not restore to life
My son
He lies in his grave
and I know not where
Though I keep asking people
Everywhere
Perhaps the poor child
Lies in a rough ditch
and instead he could have been
lying in his warm bed
Oh, sing for him
God's little song-birds
Since his mother
Cannot find him
And you, God's little flowers
May you blossom all around
So that my son
May sleep happily
Isaiah 40:
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
This always makes me cry....
@quebeckromeovictor
Thank you for these words ! Now when our mother Poland crying because her best children were killed, this song is very up to date..
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.
I listen to it whenever it rains. It engulfs me in incomparable intensity of joy, and sorrow. Thank you. =)
Thanks for sharing this. Stunning, harrowing and very important,
a truly stunning piece of music which never fails to tug at all emotions.
Parece que esses dias escuros estão para se repetir, que a arte nos possa salvar. "Faz escuro mas eu canto".
This entire video was extremely well done. The performance, composition, all of it.
Dziekuje Panu Goreckiemu za te uduchowiona muzyke
its the most moving thing I have seen/heard - lest we NEVER forget xxx Mark Bear (England)
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.
Simply beautiful.
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.
My God.
This brought tears to my eyes.
Beauty. Beauty has occured, here.
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.
So utterly beautiful!
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Es tan triste cómo preciosa.
Me entusiasma cuando la melodía va subiendo como si quisiera tocar el cielo.
Un saludo,
Elsa.
so the humanity have to be in every place and in every time.
Thank, thanks a lot
jest to wielka strata dla świata muzyki. Maestro świetnie oddawał uczucia przy pomocy klawiszy. Boże, miej go w swojej opiece .
...how deep..forever in my heart...keep it like a treasure..beautiful
Thank you for this - and so much more. Rest in peace, dear Maestro.
this is an incredible piece. the setting is just incredible. very moving.
When I first saw this programme in 2005, this was the song that stood out for me - it really touched my soul. The beauty of the words and music stood out outstandingly against the bleak surroundings and harsh weather, like a beacon of hope.
As someone who has been to Auschwitz 4 times, I always have the first violin theme playing in my mind as I walk through the gates by the railway line onto the Judenrampe. It is always an honour to pay my respects to my distant family members who ended their days, screaming, gasping and choking their last breaths in Crematoria No 2.
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
im literally moved to tears, thank you.
Most beautiful & moving song & music