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Henryk Górecki - Symphony #3, 1st movement, featuring Dawn Upshaw
(This video is "age-restricted" due to disturbing images.)
Henryk Górecki's "Symphony #3," Second movement performed by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Zinman and featuring soloist Dawn Upshaw.
The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. It was premièred on 4 April 1977, at the Royan International Festival, with Stefania Woytowicz as soprano and Ernest Bour as conductor.
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, despair and suffering. The libretto of the second movement uses the words of a teenage girl, Helena Błażusiakówna (Helena Błażusiak), which she wrote on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane to invoke the protection of the Virgin Mary.
Until 1992, Górecki was known only to connoisseurs, primarily as one of several composers from the Polish School responsible for the postwar Polish music renaissance. That year, Elektra-Nonesuch released a recording of the 15-year-old symphony performed by the London Sinfonietta featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. The recording topped the classical charts in Britain and the United States and became a world-wide critical and popular success.
This video is a recording of the second half of the first movement of the Symphony, the Lento-Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile. The video features Dawn Upshaw singing against a backdrop of video footage from the Holocaust, as German officers and German civilians were forced by American liberation troops to bury the dead from Mauthausen camp in Austria.
One of the officers described the scene:
"In May 1945, an American army unit was deployed to the Mauthausen camp in Austria to bulldoze mass graves for the victims. German civilians, on US orders, were forced to haul bodies to the mass graves
From the German civilians nearby, we started to get the...those people to come up by the truckload and we told them to dress in their Sunday best, and then we made them dig graves, and...uh...we wanted them to see what was going on and then we had them carry the bodies, load the bodies in the wagons. We took wagonload after wagonload of bodies out to the grave site, which was the soccer field or the sport...uh...they call it the sport Platz. And...uh...we made the Germans handle, load them up in the wagons from inside the camp, take them down to the, the...um...graveyard, the grave site, and unload them, put them down in the graves, side by side, by the hundreds--there'd be 150 people or so in a row--and side, practically on top of each other. They were such, they were all skin and bones, and it was--I have pictures of them and movies--but the...um...uh...bodies were...uh...were so emaciated that you, you, you, you couldn't possibly understand how those people were alive and walking around."
Henryk Górecki's "Symphony #3," Second movement performed by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Zinman and featuring soloist Dawn Upshaw.
The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. It was premièred on 4 April 1977, at the Royan International Festival, with Stefania Woytowicz as soprano and Ernest Bour as conductor.
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, despair and suffering. The libretto of the second movement uses the words of a teenage girl, Helena Błażusiakówna (Helena Błażusiak), which she wrote on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane to invoke the protection of the Virgin Mary.
Until 1992, Górecki was known only to connoisseurs, primarily as one of several composers from the Polish School responsible for the postwar Polish music renaissance. That year, Elektra-Nonesuch released a recording of the 15-year-old symphony performed by the London Sinfonietta featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. The recording topped the classical charts in Britain and the United States and became a world-wide critical and popular success.
This video is a recording of the second half of the first movement of the Symphony, the Lento-Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile. The video features Dawn Upshaw singing against a backdrop of video footage from the Holocaust, as German officers and German civilians were forced by American liberation troops to bury the dead from Mauthausen camp in Austria.
One of the officers described the scene:
"In May 1945, an American army unit was deployed to the Mauthausen camp in Austria to bulldoze mass graves for the victims. German civilians, on US orders, were forced to haul bodies to the mass graves
From the German civilians nearby, we started to get the...those people to come up by the truckload and we told them to dress in their Sunday best, and then we made them dig graves, and...uh...we wanted them to see what was going on and then we had them carry the bodies, load the bodies in the wagons. We took wagonload after wagonload of bodies out to the grave site, which was the soccer field or the sport...uh...they call it the sport Platz. And...uh...we made the Germans handle, load them up in the wagons from inside the camp, take them down to the, the...um...graveyard, the grave site, and unload them, put them down in the graves, side by side, by the hundreds--there'd be 150 people or so in a row--and side, practically on top of each other. They were such, they were all skin and bones, and it was--I have pictures of them and movies--but the...um...uh...bodies were...uh...were so emaciated that you, you, you, you couldn't possibly understand how those people were alive and walking around."
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Lani Hall is the best female vocalist of all times… no one comes close ..,
Incredible work 😊
Sweet angel.
Perfect, Karen Carpenter's voice is always perfect, it is impossible to sing this way, when I listen to her songs it calms my poor soul
Angel comes to mind. Brilliant xxxx
I hope Richard decides to tour the US after his European tour. I'll be one of the first in line to see this man.
I've been so many places in my life and time I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhymes I've acted out my love on stages With ten thousand people watching But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you I know your image of me is what I hope to be I've treated you unkindly But darlin' can't you see? There's no one more important to me Darlin' can't you please see through me? 'Cause we're alone now And I'm singing this song for you You taught me precious secrets Of a truth withholding nothing You came out in front and I was hiding But now I'm so much better And if my words don't come together Listen to the melody 'Cause my love is in there hiding I love you in a place where there's no space or time I love you for in my life You are a friend of mine And when my life is over Remember when we were together We were alone and I was singing this song for you
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Te amo hij a mia
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Pelicula "Infierno en lactoorre".Con Robert Wagner.Steve McQueen.etc.Preciosa voz y cancion ganadora de un Oscar.
Epic ❤ my mom loved her and now at 44 I appreciate her more and more. She’s my fav!!!
Gone in less than 3 years. He took her for richer until she was poorer.
What did she have in common with him? Casey Kasem as an usher.
Used to listen to this on my 8-track driving in the truck.
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Beautiful🌼🌼
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❤Richard looks very thin here!❤ Loved them loved their music!❤
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The ultimate love song. It's about proximity 😢
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Sign of maturity as I’ve gone from laughing and rolling my eyes, at a brother sister duo in the 70s, I was there, to accepting how great they were. Voice of velvet. Geniuses.
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These artist were real artist they don't make them anymore but they all left a legacy for us all amazing !
still here 2024
If angels could sing, they'd sound like Karen Carpenter. ❤ xx
whos the drummer
Cubby O'Brien. He was one of the original "Mouseketeers" in "The Mickey Mouse Club" tv show in the late Fifties.
My mumma requested this song at her funeral. My Dadda sung this song until he died.. mumma died at 10.12pm 19th of june 2024.
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Une mélodie sophistiquée ... très bons arrangements et belle vidéo !!! J'espère que tu reçois notre amour chère Karen !
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So painful to watch. She deserved someone good.
This is so painful to watch, knowing what an absolute user he was 😢. She looked gorgeous though.
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I have never been more moved. I lost my husband in 2012 and I thought Jesus had abandoned me. Listening to this over and over somehow changed me. THANK YOU
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この完成度の高い曲、「NOW｣は彼女の最後の曲ですか？(ᵕ ᵕ̩̩)
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