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Górecki’s Third Symphony
The music
The performers
- Andrey Boreyko conductor
- Iwona Sobotka soprano
From grief to glory, experience a symphony that moved the world.
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 award-winning Polish soprano Iwona Sobotka.
*Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Fri 19 Feb 2027, 7.30pm
London, Royal Festival Hall
Tickets from £19.50 (including a transaction fee of £3.50)
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fearlessly conducted and profoundly moving … Andrey Boreyko’s baton brought superlative performances from his LPO charges …
The Times
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