Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Symphony No. 3) and Losing Loved Ones

 Henryk Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is maybe most familiar from the way a piece of it makes this scene in Peter Weir's 1993 film Fearless:


His symphony No. 3 was written in three movements; two, the first and last, from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child and the middle from the perspective of a child who has been separated from a parent. Here's the whole thing: 


 It's relentlessly sad, sure. But awesome in its powers of acceptance and enduring love, sympathy, feeling, something?  

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