Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 2, Op. 31: “Copernican”

First, it sounds as if war has begun against the gods. Then, like the laboring of a soul in profound melancholic sorrow, among the bones and bloody river of the slain. . . .a heart-wrenching saudade. . . .severed in pieces. . . .and far from one’s god.

Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento, Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile