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Henryk Górecki – Symphonie No.2
I just found about that recently. As opposed to the "pop hit", Symphonie No.3, which is very beautiful as well. Symphonie No.2 is an apocalypse, with a series of percussive stabs in real odd time signatures that really, in a way, sound like Swans, in retrospect because I didn’t hear this in the early days. It sounds like the end of the world, but at the same time it’s very compelling and uplifting, with a very beautiful lament at the end of the symphony. Like Penderecki and Ligeti, it just speaks to me in a very natural way.
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Lord Spikeheart, Tom Ravenscroft
