Thirty years ago, in May 1991, a symphony was being recorded at a sound studio in northwest London — Symphony No. 3 by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. An obscure work, first composed in 1970s ...

Polish composer Henryk Gorecki died today at age 76. The news was announced this morning by the Polish National Radio Symphony. Gorecki was little known outside Poland until a 1992 recording of his ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Henryk Górecki, the great Polish composer who died last week, was only ...

Beth Gibbons vocalist for acclaimed UK band Portishead was formally invited to Poland in 2014 to sing soprano at Warsaws Grand Theatre This performance forms the basis of the film and album titled ...

A meaningful meditation on motherhood, love and loss, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs adapts texts in Polish taken from sources spanning the centuries, giving perspectives from both a mother having lost ...

What does it take to make an opera? Music, of course, at least one singing voice, some text to be sung. Then you need action, if not necessarily a plot. Beyond that, the possibilities stretch on and ...

This emotional film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the “Third Symphony” by The London Sinfonietta alongside powerful footage of Górecki at Auschwitz and Birkenau.

A meaningful meditation on motherhood, love and loss, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs adapts texts in Polish taken from sources spanning the centuries, giving perspectives from both a mother having lost ...

Composer Henryk Gorecki was little known outside Poland until a 1992 recording of his Symphony No. 3 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs shot up the classical AND pop charts. We'll hear that recording ...

Symphony No 3, composed by Polish composer Henryk Gorecki in 1977, became one of the biggest sellers of classical music of all time, when Elektra Nonesuch's 1992 recording of the 'Symphony of ...