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  • nieważne gdzie, kiedy...wszyscy jesteśmy dziećmi Boga

  • I think this is one of the most beautiful, humbling pieces ever written and that Ms. Upshaw has a wonderful voice. Such feeling and depth. Very moving. I also think the video is distracting and off topic for the piece, but I understand the sentiment.

  • 9 señores de la guerra vieron este video

  • For God's sake! Please re-new the video.

  • only zofia kilanowicz version!!!!!

  • This video does not do this piece of music justice, for a truly spiritual experience you need to listen to an orchestra play it live.

  • I went cadogen hall tonite beautiful the only word to describe it.

  • Does anyone know where the footage at the graveyard from around 7.00 is from?

  • 8 personas son totalmente incensibles!

  • No special effects here.............

  • So are we sopposed to buy the CD to support Ms. Upshaw and the rest, or send money to whichever nation currently has starving children? Ruined the sustained impact of the piece and a filmed performance, that's what ya did. Now go have a snack.

  • I understand showing the videos of malnourished children, but it seems really wrong to show images of the deceased....

  • One of my favorite composers. Regarding this video, however, I believe the music speaks for itself and does not need horrible images running along with it.

  • One of my favorite composers.

  • ça se passe sur la planète Terre ... avec ses milliards d'habitants (images très très insoutenables),  si petit l'on est si méchants que l'on est !

    12 MILLIONS D'ETRES VIVANTS DANS LA FAMINE EN AFRIQUE CET ETE : 2 minutes à la T.V. ...

  • Disliking this is either a sin or due to a horrible past. I feel sorry and pray for those who klicked the "thumbs-down".

  • Gorecki

    now you are death, but this absolutely beautiful music, will be in our souls forever!!!!!!

    thank now and forever!!!!

    Andy

  • the picture are hard

  • Yes it is breathtaking...

  • who are you-- me -- USA-- best of the best--- who are you

  • @kox300... Shut the fuck up you unworthy of life... people like you shouldn't even exist in this world.. Wait sorry I said people your a fcking monster-- what a waste of life

  • 5 people clealy have no soul.........NO SOUL.

  • Y aun con todo,,, sigo creyendo que la humanidad puede mejorar y que aun hay mucha gente buena.

  • @hydra333 siempre hay esperanza... y mientras exista todo es posible!

  • @Apara2007 en estos momentos necesitaba leer esto... gracias

  • Miserere nobis...

  • she's pretty good singing in polish :)

  • Poderia dizer horas a fim sobre este clip... mas o poder que ele tem em nos impactar fala por sí só.

  • This was actually based on the heartbreaking messages scratched on the deadly walls of Auschwitz by those waiting to die. Every note burns with their despair.

  • Mi inginocchio a chieder perdono d'avanzo di cui godo .

    Chino il capo fronte siffatta bellezza armoniosa, preghiera crescente in trasporto a Dio.

    Grazie maestro Henryk Gòrecki e grazie alla voce di Dawn Upshaw le immagini devono imprimersi nelle menti e proliferare.........

    Non ci sono solo io.......

    ci siamo anche noi e lo urliamo di forza, da dentro con fievole voce........

    Infatti, Voi, non ci sentite............

    Tidra

  • T_T

  • Those poor starving kids.... It really makes me mad when people completely overindulge. Some people could be very comfortable after donating a big portion of their money. There's no justifiable reason not to, there are millions of people and animals who live and die like those children.

  • Doskonała muzyka aż dech zapiera

    

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  • Instant tears.

  • Ooi love the constant roll of the organ in the back

  • The juxtaposition of these images with this music makes for a very powerful experience and sends a message to all of us, as citizens of this planet, to think about how we treat our fellow citizens.

  • Useless current events as a euphemism for dying children is certainly the product of a cold, cold heart. I found the video and music extraordinarily emotional - very sad and moving.

  • @QMPhilosophe

    Górecki said, " I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but I am not writing for them. I have something to tell them, but the audience must also put a certain effort into it. But I never wrote for an audience and never will write for because you have to give the listener something and he has to make an effort in order to understand certain things."

  • Whenever your life seems to be getting tough and you find yourself complaining, just think to yourself how you could have REAL problems.

  • I wonder if we could have a fragment of his 4 symphony. That would be wonderful. He will be missed..........

  • Roontunes, I can,t add to your comments, I also can,t watch it, makes me feel sooooo bad,

  • I actually started watching this tonight on BBC4 and I,d heard it before but could never listen to it all as i found it too painful even without the imagery. The film of Dawn Upshaws performance is spell binding, that woman and the beauty of the photography of her animated face seduced me to stay with the performance.

    The documentary footage is enough to make your eyes bleed, I can't watch it, I flinch and look away, i have to or i couldn't get through a day.

  • @roontunes I have also just watched the BBC programme and was in tears for most of it. I'm no particular softy, but bloody hell, we (as a species) do some disgusting things to our fellow humans. Music has such an incredible ability to move and to inspire us. This BBC programme should be compulsary viewing in all UK schools, but of course it wouldn't be PC, would it?

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  • @roontunes I watched the BBC4 doc also. I thought I had seen most of the Auschwitz footage there was to see over the years. I couldn't have been more wrong. I couldn't keep myself together and just wept. It was some of the most harrowing footage I've seen. Like you, I found Dawn Upshaw mesmerising. Couldn't switch the film off. I agree with Richard ASK, should be compulsory viewing in schools, but we all know it won't be. The film is not for the faint-hearted.

  • Thanks you PakoChile for this, its still probably the finest performance.

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  • Sorry, Antoni Wit. Henryk Gorecki, you may rest in peace.

  • Love Dawn Upsaw.. but also love, actually more: soprano Zofia Kilanowicz - Polish National Radio Orchestra, conducted by Antonio Wit. (recorded 1993).

  • Thank you kindly for this video and the things that you kept inside. Anybody learns what he wants. I got a lesson from this. Now I have more clear what it does mean for me, a more clear motivation for one's existence (mine in this case).

    Andy

  • 6 Heart Virtues - We Must Live & Learn...

    appreciation

    compassion

    understanding

    forgiveness

    humility

    valor

  • R.I.P., Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

  • this is hard, i cant believe he is dead. he was a great composer, i believe in his music.

  • The text is based on a Silesian folk song, sung by mother seeking her son, which was killed in the war: "He lies there in a grave and I do not know where, but I ask everywhere and everyone, maybe poor kid lies somewhere in the pit instead of laying in his own hearth-bed. Hey, tweet for him there, ye birds of God, when his mamma cannot find him, and you, flowers of God, blossom all around, let my son lie happy. And you, bad people, why have you killed my son?"

  • @zbigpron dziekuję

  • Lezy on tam w grobie, a jo nie wiem kandy, choc sie opytuja miedzy ludzmi wsandy. Moze nieborocek lezy kaj w dołecku. a mógłby se lygać na swoim przypiecku. Ej, ćwierkeycie mu tam, wy ptosecki boze, kiedy mamulicka znalezć go nie moze. A ty, boze kwiecie, kwitnijze w około, niech sie synockowi choć lezy wesoło.
  • Tekst oparty jest na ludowej pieśni ze Śląska Opolskiego "Kajze mi sie podzioł mój synocek miły" : Kajze mi sie podzioł mój synocek miły? Pewnie go w powstaniu złe wrogi zabiły. Wy niedobrzy ludzie, dlo Boga świętego cemuście zabili synocka mojego? Zodnej jo podpory juz nie byda miała, choç bych moje stare ocy wypłakała. Choćby z mych łez gorkich drugo Odra była, jesce by synocka mi nie ozywiła. 
  • Wie ktoś gdzie znaleźć tekst do 3. symfonii?

  • Gracias Pakochile por subir esto,,,Hoy fallecio Henryk Górecki...Pero siempre vivira por la belleza que es esta symfonia..

  • Henryk Gorecki, December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010. May your music live on forever. Rest in Peace :/

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  • Why do you wanna post pictures of starving children to this clip. There is a place for that as well but maybe not in the middle of a this piece of music.

  • @desperatefight This pictures relates to the words she is singing. This is a song about a mother, whose son has been murderd. It is a song of sorrow. The video shows, that there are children dying all the time all over the world. This song has no ending.

    PS

    You can always close your eyes if you do not like the images!

  • @toopooe You are just so right, you know. Maybe the video would have been even better if the pictures had more gore. Or even better, it could have videos of people actually dieing in car accidents and jumping off building or being shot to death. I am so glad you stood up for this video. You are just soooo right.

  • @jacero10 That is a song of sorrow. Of course, the author could put there images of rainbows, beaches, sun, laughter, friendship, love. But, would you have any idea, what is she singing about? It is really hard for me to understand what is she speaking and I actually do speak polish. I know, the music is a hint. But it is the most abstract art. You can't guess what is the meaning of it.

    You can always pretend, that this things don't happen. Live your imaginary world.

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  • It`s THIRD part, not second!!

  • She's amazing, I love her voice !

  • so incredibly beautiful... the tears just pour out everytime i hear this.

  • so incredibly beautiful... the tears just pour out everytime i hear this.

  • ..............................­..

  • ale obrzydliwy Sebastian

  • Fox300 you are a fool.

  • The rich (quasi free, wealthy and healthy) suffer metaphysically and beautifully the physical suffering of the poor (oppressed, tortured, starving) in art (music, film, paintings...).

  • This symphony had been already 16 years old when Down Upshaw discovered it for the world. It became a great success. Only in Canada 160 000 CDs were sold and over 2 million around the world. This part is based on XIX century unknown folk song and its text. Althugh it is hardly understandable for the contemporary Pole, Down's performance is great and full of pain. This video illustrates what the text is all about. Sorrow and pain of a mother who lost her son and does not know where his bod lies.

  • These extremely sad pictures are real sorrow.

  • Gorecki wrote this for the children of the Jewish holocaust

  • @TheFlyfish40 Thank you for letting us know.Perhaps he would not mind using this music in order to help to stop another horror. AS LONG AS the two horrible situations are NOT COMPARED. Their cause is absolutely different: The primitive African world, together with its hostile climate, is something that should permanently concern. But the world is putting much more effort and money in the defamation of Israel. As the hatred to the Jews has never disappeared.

  • @TheFlyfish40 WRONG. He wrote it for the Children of the Holocaust. NOT JUST JEWISH. Gay, Gypsie, Slavic and many others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @CLUBHADES This song is about mother who lost son during Silesian Uprising. That was a popular song from Opole voivoeship (sing in characteristical dialect).

    I suppose that "lament" (sorrow song) is uniwersal and is not linked to any specific period of time and place. Peace.

  • '' Famine doesn't just happen, it is organised by the grain barons ''

  • The guy who made this video is a fucking racist.. Black people.. suffering from hunger and shit.. What is that? Obviously I feel sorry for them.. But what about other people who suffering? What about people suffering mentally? What about handicapped people? What about people who have lost their whole family's? I mean.. okay.. African people.. dying.. But they haven't seen any other world.. I do feel sorry for them.. But they haven't seen other things then that..

  • @Zapust this video, I do believe, comes from a DVD that has images from a variety of horrendously suffering peoples, including the Holocaust, from which the texts used by Gorecki are derived. This particular section (excerpted from one of three movements) has images of African starvation, but there are many more. Not so expressly the groups you seem concerned with most, if I recall correctly, but how can one sum up all suffering in one work of art?

  • @bleemblargo Well okay.. But I start to see Africans starving as racism.. Every single video on youtube with like.. Song that are about sorrow shit and sad music.. And even Linkin Park - What I've done.. It's black people suffering.. Like the only thing they do is suffer..start using other clips as well! What about North Korea? Poor ass people in China and Japan? Animals suffering from the global warming? Auschwitz?

  • @Zapust You're either a brilliant, insightful comedian or the worst and stupidest person ever to stumble accidentally into existence. 

  • There's only ONE world. WE live in and on it. How crude and terrible it is we see.

  • What a lovely heavenly voice! She gives all of herself in this touching piece. Yes, let these images very much disturb us, so that we won't forget them and this music might reach it's goal:

    getting our *sses move and DO our part in helping wherever and however we can since they are all our responsibility, all children in all world at all times

    thanks for this wonderfull music, honoring the most vulnerable

  • I think the africa vclips are cheap and crude. That said, thank you OP, this is prob the best vesion of the last movement I've heard.

  • Pako, hi ! Beautiful and grotesque. Perhaps the complainers feel a little guilty and uncomfortable because they know this is going on but they do nothing about it. One such comment states that the video is about hunger in Africa, Is Tiananmen Square in Africa?/ What was Lech Walesa doing in Africa? The song is about a mother's loss of her son unnecessarily, it happens everywhere, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leon, Ethiopia, North Korea and China. etc. Thanks for the 10 mins.

  • does anyone know what was happening at 7:00?

  • Well done, PakoChile. Your images are powerful and do justice to the music. En realidad te pasaste.

  • Hi pakoChile, thanks for bringing this up. The crude images you inserted where a bit kitsch.

    Ofcourse they're real. But I don't know if they click with the source of this song. By all means sorry for complaining.

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  • Jesus christ. How people manage to complain about free shit just baffles me. This guy uploaded a video, for free, that you watch, for free, and he makes some changes pursuant to his personal interpretation of the video, and you comment TWICE in to tell him how KITSCH it is in CAPITALS.

    Do you even know what kitsch is? Because I promise you, images of things that have happened and which tie into the themes of this symphony reasonably well aren't it.

  • @hoiszhdfoifh22

    You are so right- some people are selfish ingrates, U appreciate listening to an unfamiliar artist and work for Free and then deciding whether I want to purchase it. it.

    Thank you "PakoChile" for posting this music,

    Regards-John

  • @hoiszhdfoifh22 I appreciate and agree with the message but please, please say it without using God's Name in vain. Thank you.

  • Oops. I meant to type "of courfe, Goode Sire. I hayve much Refpect for ye're old Religion and the great deal of good it is doing the world. Efpecially the way God cured the homofexuals and buggeritef of living by giving them the AIDF, and all of oure Lorde's other great actionf."

  • @hoiszhdfoifh22 Shut up!!!!!

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  • so upsetting :.(

  • Gorecki...a true genius.

  • for the clip at 8.25. what did they do to deserve that?

    If soemone has already said what, sorry to reapet myself.

  • What a beautiful voice

  • an evolution, charles darwin was right, there will only be 1 dominant human specie left in the end, the cleverest or the strongest or the fastest or all 3 combines - your guess folks

  • @alexkrasnoff You have neither an understanding of Darwin, nor of human beings. Do not insult the rest of us with your ignorance.

  • @alexkrasnoff Not quite, its the best adapted to its environment which survive. We (life) are all the same in that we differ.

  • What three Humans are you refering too???

    As far as common sense and evidence shows there were only two species of Human and those died out millions of years ago because they were unable to adapt to climate changes.

    Today there is only one Human species. Go lean some history

  • amazing voice

  • i hope there is a place where we will all end up and look down and see what we become.. this planet is slowly turning into a toxic grave which mankind created..if we could take away the oceans, wate etc,.the earth would look like a rotten apple..the super powers of this world make me sick..just look at some of these examples of what mankind does to mankind.. bow your head in shame..

  • Anyone knows from where are the images that appear about the 05:30 ?

  • @eriicnn

    the images are from halabja,when the iraqi government used chemical weapons against the kurdish people in 1988,very evil act of genocide.

  • @eriicnn

    The images are from Halabdscha (kurd. Helepçe) after the attack with toxin gas through the iraqi government from 16. and 17. March 1988.

  • where can we listen to the entire movement??

  • @cflorezgroup I'm so so sorry for that but i could'n upload the entire movement cause Youtube doesn't allow videos longer than 10 minutes. So i put the movement in two parts (This is the second) and even thought to cut it on a "good place" but the first part was deleted and prohibited because of the images... Sorry

  • @PakoChile either way my friend, I still thank you for posting this. I adore Dawn Upshaw as well as this beautiful piece.

  • @PakoChile, many thanks for your upload!

    cflorezgroup,

    why don't you do better?

    If it's so bad, it's easy, show us you quality's!!!

    images from Africa, is that what saw? can't you see more than that?

    Did you ever saw a documentary about Gorecky, with the man himself talking about life?

    Don't you get it? it's all about life man! not polish, not indonesian, not chilean... it's about humanity...

    be more positive, and constructive!

  • Third part of the lyrics

    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

    (Folk song in the dialect of the Opole region)

  • Thank you so much for the lyrics.

  • Second part of the lyrics

    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

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    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?

  • The weird thing about this video is she's singing in Polish, The sub-titles are in Spanish, anf they're showing videos of hunger in Africa!

  • @cflorezgroup I suppose the did that because the lyrics talked about a mother who lost his child and her pain and her search to find his body... Is a universal story, it happened not only in Poland

  • @PakoChile ...and Polish language becomes universal! I Don't speak Polish but I understand every single word in this song.

  • maybe its because they're subtitled... jaja, just kidding

  • @cflorezgroup What amazes me about this is that you are watching and listening to a video the music for which is the epitome of soul-moving, uplifting and beautiful, music which plunges to the depths of the human soul and shows us every facet of ourselves at once, and the only thing you can do is complain. Does that not speak volumes about you? Do you have no soul? Do you have nothing inside you? Are you eight? How can you sit here and insult the person who is showing you this?

  • @cflorezgroup And your comment is in English and I am from Denmark

  • @cflorezgroup

    in Polish??? it's pretty far far away from Polish...

    even though Gorecki is/was a great Polish man doesn't mean she sings in it

    easy to remember - music has no border

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  • @shadowitself it's a silesian dialect and the singer is American so actually only some words, phrases are intelligible but it doesn't matter... she sings so beautifully

  • @jijileila either U'r Silesian or linguistic specialist, if U'r able to recognized it as silesian

    according the music context - as U said -doesn't matter, nevertheless I find it's annoying when people hear any 'odd' language and recognized it as Polish immediately

  • @shadowitself I've just read this on wikipedia.

  • @cflorezgroup and the singer is American.

  • @cflorezgroup

    Suffering doesn't know any language

    

  • @cflorezgroup It's almost as though there are many different things in the world, and that they work together conjunctively. It's almost as though someone from Poland can express the sadness of something happening in Africa. This should not be possible! THIS CAN NOT BE POSSIBLE!

  • @hoiszhdfoifh22 Gorecki DID NOT write this piece for the sadness that happens in Africa... maybe you should do your research on Gorecki and find out it was the atrocities that happened in Poland. And yes, some Eastern European countries DID go through many of the same terrible things that Africans are going through - starvation, displacement, mass killings etc etc etc. It doesn't matter if you are in the heat of Africa, or freezing in Poland, starving and having your family killed is the same.

  • nothingbutmeat is correct.

    This is the third movement, its lyrics are a folk song about a mother who believes her son has been killed in the Silesian uprisings.

  • So beautiful it hurts to listen to.

  • Couldn't agree more- yet i keep listening over and over :)

  • beautiful music..some interesting comments too.you can argue this point and that point but the bottom line is we have the tech to stop disease poverty,all of it! but it won't happen.i think the human race is borederline insane anywayit kills its brother mother father sister children at the drop of a hat,irradiating our own planet.did u know that our species is now the equal of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?thats the devastation we've wrought on our planet.

  • good way to ruin it with that ugly sludge...rather put up the 8,000 plus white farm murdered dutch who arrived before any zulus

  • What are the lyrics for this part?

  • The original text (that is sung here) is in polish. It was taken from inscriptions on the walls of the baraks of the concentration camp Auschwits. The final part is a prayer from a young girl to the Holy virgin Mary

  • @FrankRebers No, you're thinking of the second movement, its lyrics are a message that was written on the wall of a prison in Zakopane (not Auschwitz) by a young girl imprisoned by the Nazis.

    This is the third movement, its lyrics are a folk song about a mother who believes her son has been killed in the Silesian uprisings.

  • no... that is the 2nd movement...

  • How come it doesn't fit with the lyrics?

  • conflict and poverty doesn't fit into our world - must end

  • And this the real problem. We have XXI century for Christ!!!! Its a big waste of Human potential...

  • all of my nerves are shivering from this music

  • Realmente transmite usted maestro Gorecky una verdadera sensación del sentirlo con esta obra magnanima q usted emprende con vuelos al futuro inmediato-..... bendiciones donde quiera q estes.,

    Saludos

  • what a fucked up world, fucking animal people

  • read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" and then return and apologise for your ignorance.

  • There is corruption in USA but it does not cause genocide in the scale that we can see in Africa. We have to unite and strongly expose everybody link to this genocide

  • Excuse me?? Maybe corruption in USA doesn't cause problems in USA... but what about the millions of people that have died because of the wars that USA have cause...

  • Pako...The Viet Nam and Iran war kill million or inocents but that mean that we are going to let the Genocide in Ruanda, Zimbawe, and the rest of the African countries out of our attention...