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Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 was well up in the British pop charts, cheek by jowl with disco pop and soul groups, when the composer himself appeared, forsaking the relative isolation of Silesia for a multi-lingual press conference with a barrage of journalists in Brussels.

Old and Lost Rivers played by the Houston SO under their Music Director Christoph Eschenbach (7/91), made a profound impression on me when it was first released here last year hence I jumped at the opportunity to hear the work live when