Music as a Mirror of History Season 1 Episode 23 G³recki: Symphony No. 3 (1976)

Investigate the nearly inconceivable atrocities committed against Poland during World War II by Hitler€™s and Stalin€™s regimes. Learn about Henryk G³recki€™s life in wartime and in the repressive era that followed, and hear the sublimely beautiful €œSymphony of Sorrowful Songs€ that expresses the Polish experience through sung prayers and folk songs about mothers and the loss of their children.