
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. He never imagined that his haunting Symphony of Sorrowful Songs would become a global phenomenon, touching hearts on every continent. Tonight, its voice is the Polish soprano Iwona Sobotka, praised for her ‘uniquely beautiful sound quality matched with fierce intelligence’ by Sir Simon Rattle.
Volledige agenda Southbank Centre