Symphony no. 3, op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrows"

Album by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki & Ewa Iżykowska & Filharmonia Poznańska & Andrey Boreyko

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' is the third symphony by Polish composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, composed in 1976. The work, scored for soprano and orchestra, employs slow tempi, spare harmonies and modal, folk- and devotional-inspired melodies built around repeated motifs, and it signalled a move in Górecki's career away from his earlier avant-garde techniques toward a more tonal, contemplative idiom that influenced late 20th-century sacred and minimalist-influenced classical music.