Górecki once described himself as anodludek(recluse). This image of the composer as someone deep in his own thoughts and concerns was reinforced in the 1990s by the phenomenal global success of his Symphony no.3 –Symphony of Sorrowful Songs(1976). Yet both this image and the symphony, powe...
When the Zinman/Upshaw recording of Polish composer Henryk Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs was released in 1992, it reached No. 6 of the UK album chart; stayed at the top of Billboard classical chart for 38 weeks; and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Sorrowfully, this success ...