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Tony Palmer: Gorecki - The Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| The Symphony actually dates from 1976 when Gorecki was (as he teIls us in the film) a 'non-person' in the poIitical sense, when his music was banned in his native Katowice in Poland. He toId me that its inspiration had come from a book he had found about the Nazi occupation of PoIand. In the footnotes there was an example of the different messages scratched on the waIls of a Gestapo prison. One, written by a young girl, said onIy 'Mama, don't cry'. Very simple. Nothing meIodramatic or even tragic, but a heartfelt cry that scorched the soul. At an earIy performance in Paris, a music critic whispered in Gorecki's ear "Merde!" At the first screening of the film in 1993, the then commissioning editor of music programmes on Channel 4 said: "what rubbish is this?" Now, only a few years later, no-one can remember either of their names. Melvyn Bragg showed the fiIm on The South Bank Show and even managed to persuade the hierarchy of lTV that it would be an abomination to disrupt the film with any commercial breaks for, say, Durex. The 53-minute film was shown uninterrupted, an acceptance perhaps of the urgency of its content. "I wanted to express a great sorrow", Gorecki says. "The war...the rotten times under Communism...our Iife today...the starving. What madness! This sorrow, it burns inside me. l cannot shake it off." |
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