Górecki’s Third Symphony

From grief to glory: experience a symphony that moved the world, in the adept hands of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Andrey Boreyko. From the depths of despair, a woman’s voice soars pure and free: ‘Oh, sing for him, God’s little songbirds / Since his mother cannot find him’. In 1976, when Henryk Górecki wrote his Third Symphony in Communist-occupied Poland, he was making a powerful statement of hope.