CD premiere "Brochocka: Unquiet Heart"

Brochocka: Unquiet Heart is a new CD with intriguing and thought-provoking music to be released on June 27th 2025. Katarzyna Brochocka's third album, features premiere recordings of her selected works written from 2008 to 2023.

Released by CD Accord, the album showcases a diverse range of compositions, including sacred and secular, solo and chamber, vocal and instrumental pieces. Such a diverse repertoire constitutes only a part of Brochocka's extensive oeuvre, which is receiving increasing recognition. With a wide variety of musical forms and conventions, Brochocka demonstrates her maturity and versatility as an artist with a unique musical language.

Leitmotif of the album is that of the unquiet heart. The music is an artistic reinterpretation of this symbol, with reference to both ancient religious tradition and modern laic poetry. Notably, many of the recorded pieces on the album have biblical associations, reflecting the growing importance of this thematic aspect in the composer's recent output.

The artists appearing on disc are: Judit Rajk (contralto), Tomasz Raff (bass), Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła (piano), Karol Kowal (double bass), Klara Wośkowiak (harp), Maria Machowska (violin), Stanisław Podemski (violin), Agnieszka Podłucka (viola), Aleksandra Ohar-Sprawka (cello).

The recording is available both on CD and on streaming platforms.

This album was made possible thanks to the granting of financial resources from the promotional fund of the STOART – Performing Artists’Association.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.