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“How should I explain it to you? Perhaps you should think about an elevator: You leave behind the basement of everyday life, filled with noises, distractions and anxieties, and you take te elevator up to the tenth floor or even into the sky of timelessness. When you are in this music, time slows down, it is as if you were in heaven, it's like eternity. Do you understand what I want to achieve there? Total calm… Let us play it again.”

(Henryk Gorecki tegen zijn zangeres over zijn Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)”How should I explain it to you? Perhaps you should think about an elevator: You leave behind the basement of everyday life, filled with noises, distractions and anxieties, and you take te elevator up to the tenth floor or even into the sky of timelessness. When you are in this music, time slows down, it is as if you were in heaven, it's like eternity. Do you understand what I want to achieve there? Total calm… Let us play it again.”

(Henryk Gorecki tegen zijn zangeres over zijn Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)