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Royal Northern College of Music

Conductor

Charles Hazelwood

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Victoria Oruwari

Soprano

Orchestra

Paraorchestra

RNCM

Cathartic and hauntingly beautiful, Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is an astonishing meditation on loss and transcendence. Performed by Paraorchestra, with acclaimed soprano Victoria Oruwari, Charles Hazlewood conducts this harmonic ‘spiritual minimalist’ composition. Each of the three movements of Symphony of Sorrowful Songs features a Polish lament, including a message inscribed on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell from a teenage girl to her Mother, and a Mother’s folk song about her son lost in the Silesian civil war. Sung in Polish, it’s an evocative work that brings both tears and joy, taking audiences on an uplifting journey through grief and solace. The evening begins with a performance of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden as realised for a full string orchestra by Mahler. A melancholic, iridescent, and urgent piece; this free-falling account of death as redemption was composed by Schubert in 1824 after a serious bout of illness that led him to face his own mortality.

Paraorchestra: Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs

Manchester

United Kingdom

Concert Hall

Concert

Quartet D. 810 "Death and the Maiden" (arr. by  Gustav Mahler​)​

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs No.3 Op. 36

Rahul Karaguppi

Approved

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