Gorecki Symphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs" - Lento e Largo

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.

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[cronosqc]

"In prison, the whole wall was covered with inscriptions screaming out loud: 'I'm innocent', 'Murderers', 'Executioners', 'Free me', 'You have to save me. Adults were writing this, while here it is an eighteen-year-old girl. And she is so different. She does not despair, does not cry, does not scream for revenge. She does not think about herself; whether she deserves her fate or not. Instead, she only thinks about her mother: because it is her mother who will experience true despair.

[uggybigboots]

@whiskerchild Hey whiskerchild palestinians are getting slaughtered every day, Iraqi people are people killed each day by the west. Somalians are slaughtering each other. Jewish were slaughtered and noone should forget but my dear try to remember the here and now and don't give precedence to one death over another. This song is for suffering and as said well by Catlinshackles- it is about Human Despair don't pigeon hole it. Open up.

[KaytherTV]

Je fais cette musique en cours de musique !!!

[okowykol87]

@cronosqc Well, I'm not really sure she sings about her mother. Rather Virgin Marry and called her "mother" (which is very much in polish traditions). so beatiful, so moving...

[lewisbarham]

so evocative and on an upper level. this is music to me. i can imagine gorecki was on an upper spiritual level when writing this.

[djj676]

Hitler also despised the Poles and tried in great earnest to decimate them.... the point is there is no monopoly on suffering and nor should there be a competition as to who has suffered the most (or even who is suffering the most now). I would argue that the suffering of the Holocaust SHOULD be universalised, so that sense of the suffering of Others- both now, before and in perpetuity- will never be forgotten nor our striving to make amends for it ever cease.

And this music is sublime.

[oDubnobasswithmyhead]

That's why most of mainland Europe were complicite or turned a blind eye. Most of hitlers ideas came from the eugeniscist movement in America. The problem of the international Jew springs to mind. Author: Henry Ford.

[oDubnobasswithmyhead]

@ ronhelf catholicism created the groundwork for the holocaust, Hitler was contrary to opinion, catholic one the two absolutes of catholicism is persecution of Jews for the death of Christ, and women to suffer pain in childbirth, for the sins of eve not Adam, how do you think so many nazis escaped punishment the catholic church issued them with new birth certificates, hitlers hatred of Jews came from not being accepted into vienese art school to less talented bourgeoisie Jews.

[reggielittle25]

Your vid went viral on Andorra la Vella

[TheWisemonkey8]

Now I so very upset now... 

[uggybigboots]

@whiskerchild This is sad. Read Maus. Noone is denying suffering. You are not alone in it however. See the reality. Peace out.

[whiskerchild]

@uggybigboots

Uhhh, trying to take it away from the Jews again, are we?

SIX MILLION, THAT IS TWO THIRDS OF EUROPEAN JEWRY DIED THERE. Oh, they were "opened up" alright.

There is no such thing as a "Palestinian" - look it up; it's a political term made by enemies of Jews. That area, Palestine, was part of the Ottoman empire, & the whole area had Arabs & Jews. They couldn't stand it that Jews won their war in 1948. They've been calling themsevles "Palestinians" ever since.