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.
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
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!
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 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 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
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.
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!
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
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!
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!
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
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.
"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.
For my dad.. product of the war.. whole family died in Poland. Has never been able to show his three daughters the love he never experienced but did the best he could. Has cancer 😭pls pray for him🙏🏻❤️
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
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
@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..
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...
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.
Que maravilla , la soprano es excelsa y el autor Gorecky es un demonio católico , la obra me fascinó, la escenografía es de primerísimo nivel ¡ que devastación ¡
"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 and separation through war." - Wikipedia
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.
I know it's always subjective but to me this is the most moving piece of music I have ever heard. My grandfather died a resistance fighter to the end, of cancer in Zakopane in 1943, the same town where the 18 year old girl scratched the words of this piece. My father and his mother and two sisters were taken to the Gulag in Siberia; my grandmother died of starvation, the children survived. I think of this song as an expression of grief for all who suffered during those years... and now.
Thank you Gorecki for bringing this wonderful piece into our lives.
May you rest in peace.
So powerful in these dark times when it looks as if it's happening again. I cried my eyes out.
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Gorecki's sorrowful songs are in my top 10 of greatest music works of the 20th century, this is just trascendent.
Perfectly put.
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.
BRILLIANT recap. THANK YOU.
@@wakeupwithmichael a pleasure. Many thanks.
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 !
I am very happy and touched when I read your comment on this music channel, I would like to be your friend,
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
Rest in peace Henryk. Thank you for opening my heart. Your music will live on.
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!
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 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.
so moving, mournful, important! Always brings tears to my eyes....
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.
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.
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.
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
I got a feeling so strong, this theme thrilled me till my tears came down. Beautiful sorrowful composition.
Very moving - it always amazes me how great artists can be so underappreciated, until they pass, leaving us to wonder in amazement.
Piękne. Za każdym razem gdy tego słucham jestem bardzo wzruszony. Wykonanie Bayrakdaraian jest genialne
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 (!)
R.I.P. Henryk Gorecki. Thank you very much for your beautiful, haunting compositions.
Absolutely stunning and beautiful. Has always been a favorite. To see it in this presentation adds even more depth to it.
For me this is the saddest piece of music I have every heard... Rips my heart right out of my chest... Jeez...
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!
Gorecki sure does know how to make the tears flow....this is without doubt a simply beautiful masterpiece. Thank you for posting
No words other than "Thank you".
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
My God.
This brought tears to my eyes.
Beauty. Beauty has occured, here.
THANK YOU!! Tears are great connectors to all of us
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.
This is the most moving music i have ever heard.....It has changed my priorities in life for evernore ..
The most soul searching piece of music I have ever heard... Never tire of listening to this.
"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.
Henryk Gorecki died on 12 November, 2010 at the age of 76. Requiescat in pace.
Tooo Beautiful, I am crying!!!! for real. Good job Isabel.
For my dad.. product of the war.. whole family died in Poland. Has never been able to show his three daughters the love he never experienced but did the best he could. Has cancer 😭pls pray for him🙏🏻❤️
Nunca, nunca me cansaré de escucharla....!!
Beautiful breathtaking piece!! It makes me break down in tears!! Thank you!!
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I've seen this clip over and over. Still keeps sending chills down my spine.
It's so impressing.
jest to wielka strata dla świata muzyki. Maestro świetnie oddawał uczucia przy pomocy klawiszy. Boże, miej go w swojej opiece .
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
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.
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....
Thank you for this Most Beautiful and soul searching music.
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.
A beautiful human creation in retaliation to horrendous human acts. I am moved to tears.
You couldn't have said it better.
Dziekuje Panu Goreckiemu za te uduchowiona muzyke
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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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...
May you rest in peace.
Your symphonies, and alter the beautiful string quartets, opened my mind,- I am very grateful.
Heart-rendingly beautiful, I have always loved this musical agony as I can feel the pain in the notes.
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:
Outstanding piece of music, no words to describe how I feel and how it makes me feel when I listen to this piece.
Prayers for the world 🌸🌸🙏🌸🌸
Such a piece of work
So special to honour the loss
Yet it still happens
❤️🙏❤️peace
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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This chills to the bone, but is beautiful all in the same moment.
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.
The whole symphony is one of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever heard.
Lest we forget........
incredibly sad, incredibly beautiful.
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.
it makes me cry. a voice of real feeling, a voice of real heart. god bless you for posting this loving song
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.
Never fails to bring tears to my eyes
Free falling through the music....emotions expressed in this piece are deeply moving.
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Parece que esses dias escuros estão para se repetir, que a arte nos possa salvar. "Faz escuro mas eu canto".
its the most moving thing I have seen/heard - lest we NEVER forget xxx Mark Bear (England)
Heart wrenching...So moving...
Mogłabym tego słuchać godzinami, dniami, latami....
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
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.
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.
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
Poignant, moving, utterly beautiful, exquisite...food for the soul.
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.
!!!!Gracias!!!. Terrible y profunda protesta desde el corazón.
@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..
Es tan triste cómo preciosa.
Me entusiasma cuando la melodía va subiendo como si quisiera tocar el cielo.
Un saludo,
Elsa.
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...
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.
Que maravilla , la soprano es excelsa y el autor Gorecky es un demonio católico , la obra me fascinó, la escenografía es de primerísimo nivel ¡ que devastación ¡
Diez
Who has given this a thumbs down?! Obviously those who have never had heavy grief or lost a loved one tragically.
"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 and separation through war." - Wikipedia
This is pure catharsis.
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.
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Could this be more beautiful and sorrowful?
Hermosa y conmovedora, además de saber el origen de esta magnífica obra, la composición causa una angustia muy grande.
My grand parents are "just among the nations"....... So proud of them..... And what a wonderful song.....
Modlitwa, nie piosenka. Modlitwa do Matki Bożej Królowej Polski.
Tak piękne to sprawia, że czuję się smutny, ale bezpieczne Bóg błogosławi Polskę i wszystkich wokół miłości świata z pokoju
Stupendo.Nei momenti più tragici resta sempre una speranza e una Donna a cui affidarsi.Gorecki profondamente umano.
Thank you so much for posting this. It breaks my heart every single time.
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I was sorry to hear that Gorecki passed away today. Thanks for posting this; I became familiar with Gorecki and this work around 30 years ago.
So utterly beautiful!
I am very happy and touched when I read your comment on this music channel, I would like to be your friend
Every time I hear this I get my heart ripped out. I'll never ever learn, and I'm so grateful for that
jamais rien entendu d'aussi touchant...émotion à l'état pur.
I've heard this Symphony before, but this interpretation on top of the film.....
wow. No words.
yes! that is my fav recording. I've been in love with this symphony for years, its just so amazingly composed.
May they never be forgotten.......may they forever be remembered and may we never repeat the mistakes of their killers.
I know it's always subjective but to me this is the most moving piece of music I have ever heard. My grandfather died a resistance fighter to the end, of cancer in Zakopane in 1943, the same town where the 18 year old girl scratched the words of this piece. My father and his mother and two sisters were taken to the Gulag in Siberia; my grandmother died of starvation, the children survived. I think of this song as an expression of grief for all who suffered during those years... and now.
Of the 1000's of classical albums that I've bought over the years, this symphony has bought the emotion out in me more than any of them.
Poignant-Evocative-Stunning and Simply Beautiful.