Chagall's Bible and Gorecki's "Sorrowful Songs"

Just in time for Marc Chagall's birthday (7 Jul 1887). :)

He created most of these lithograph drawings for the Bible in the mid-twentieth century. In this series, he presents well-known and lesser-known stories from the Bible from the Garden through to the Final Judgment.

The music is a selection from Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, II Lento e Largo, tranquillissimo, also called "Sorrowful Songs," performed by David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw, and the London Sinfonietta. He was inspired by the story of an 18-year-old female, prisoner during WWII who wrote the following message on "wall 3 of cell No. 3 in the basement of the "Palace," the Gestapo headquarters in Zakopane.(**):

"No, Mother, do not weep
Most chaste Queen of Heaven
Support me always
"Zdrowas Mario."

Along with this, she also inscribed on the wall: "18 years old, imprisoned since 26 September 1944."

Her name was Helena Wanda Blazusiakowna

(**) Taken from inside the cover of a Philips recording of Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, not the one featured here.

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• Chagall
• Visual
• Arts
• music
• Humanities
• Gorecki
• symphony-no-3

[elektra72]

Marvellous!

[bevscorner]

Oh, thank you very much! :-D

[bevscorner]

Amen! Thanks for your wonderful comment, :) xxoo

[jade03092007]

Magnifique video . Peintures sublimes et musique sublime . Merci

[TrefyJot]

Wow!

[angoraization]

Thanks for sharing! I love chagall

[warwickharris]

hey bev :) i LOVE it when things like this happen!!! a few weeks ago, a friend/client i paint for, told me she bought a bible for her friend, and all the illustrations were done by chagall. i went to the shop where she got it, and they were out of stock :( NOW THIS POPS UP... HAH LE LU JAH THANKS A MILL. what a TREAT to FEAST me peepers on, and AWESOME music for my ears:) xox

HAPPY birthday for the 7th july marc.! may your eternal spirit fly free in all heaven's colours forever...