There was more to Górecki than the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

The composer may have become a household name with his mournful Symphony No 3, but the Classic FM hits parade doesn't do justice to his achievementYou don't have to be expert on the postwar eastern European avant garde to have heard the music of Henryk Górecki, the Polish composer who died today in Katowice at the age of 76. His Symphony No 3, composed in 1977, became one of the biggest sellers of classical music of all time, when Elektra Nonesuch's 1992 recording of the Symphony of Sorrowful S...

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