Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
| Friday 19 February 2027 | 19:30 |
Programme
| Górecki, Henryk (1933-2010) | Symphony no. 3 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”, Op.36 | |
| Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953) | Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, Op.100 |
Performers
| Andrey Boreyko | Conductor |
| Iwona Sobotka | Soprano |
| London Philharmonic Orchestra |
From grief to glory, experience a symphony that moved the world.
From the depths of despair, a woman’s voice soars pure and free: ‘Oh, sing for him, God’s little songbirds / Since his mother cannot find him’. In 1976, when Henryk Górecki wrote his Third Symphony in Communist-occupied Poland, he was making a powerful statement of hope. He never imagined that his haunting ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ would become a global phenomenon, touching hearts on every continent. Tonight, its voice is the award-winning Polish soprano Iwona Sobotka.
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