Translation
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 2nd movement
The Polish recording featuring Stefania Woytowicz is still the best rendition of Henryk Górecki's Symfonia pieśni żałosnych (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), Symphony No. 3, Opus 36, 1976. Here is the 2nd movement, Lento e largo tranquillissimo based on the text by Helena Wanda Błażusiakówna, age 18, who scratched