Śpiewnik polski. Pieśń polska XX i XXI wieku (Orphée Classics 2018)

Karuzel

Krzyż

Słoneczko

Zygmunt Mycielski Pięć pieśni weselnych

Jerzy Lefeld:

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Grażyna Bacewicz:

Rozstanie

Samotność

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Sroczka

Andrzej Panufnik Hommage à Chopin

Roman Palester: Trzy wiersze Czesława Miłosza 

Paweł Mykietyn Sonety Szekspira

Aleksander Kościów Shihaikai

Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska Recitativo e Aria Da Capo al Absurdum (Małmazja)

Perf.: Joanna Freszel (soprano), Łukasz Chrzęszczyk (piano)

* Orphée Classics (2018)

Total time: 77’05’’

The CD features a selection of art songs by Polish composers of the 20th and 21st centuries – a Polish songbook of our times. Among the authors there are more and lesser known, including simply forgotten, composers. The same applies to the authors of the lyrics. However, bringing back from obscurity – which Polish culture and Poles need so much – is just one aim of the recording. It is also about describing the background of Polish songs which have been written over the last several decades, about illustrating their stylistic diversity, variety of sound aesthetics, compositional techniques, in a word – about the richness of which we are usually unaware, because we are preoccupied with other matters, probably more important, or at least we think they are more important...

Maciej Negrej (translation: Anna Kijak)