Topic: NONESUCH
In the early 1990s, few would have predicted that a message scratched on a Gestapo cell wall, a mother's lament for her dead son and a medieval prayer to the Virgin Mary would inspire one of the most moving and memorable musical experiences of the 20th century. Or that a symphony by a little-known Polish avant-garde composer would entrance and enthrall a generation of listeners. But, in 1993, Nonesuch Records issued a stunning recording, by the American soprano Dawn Upshaw with the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman, of
Henryk Gorecki's Third Symphony, Symfonia Piesni Zalosnych — the 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' — and, almost overnight, Gorecki became a household name.
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