November 18, 2010

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3

Learned of Gorecki’s passing. His Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is his perfect lamentation. “Where has he gone, my dearest son?”

Yet somehow listening to it while doing life-stuff seemed even more correct. Preparing and eating dinner, just a moment of darkness when the soprano wells up out of the nothing.

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