Well, after a conversation with our man Clint in which I praised it, I pulled out Henryk G?recki’s Miserere, which was written in 1981 as a protest against Poland’s Communist government’s slaughter of Rural Solidarity members.

Miserere is deeply religious, powerful work in which an unaccompanied choir sings just five words ? Domine Deus noster (Lord our God) / Miserere nobis (Have mercy on us) ? pleading with God for peace and mercy.