1. With Your Fair Eyes2. Now Hath My Life3. O Night, O Sweet Though Sombre4. Orlando Furioso to Don Quixote of La Mancha5. Solisdan to Don Quixote of La Mancha6. Monicongo, Academician of Argamasilla, on the Sepulture of Don Quixote7. Since She Left8. The Warsaw Sparrows9. Non è vero10. The Eyes of Green Lakes11. At the Fair12. The Sleigh Ride13. Sighs14. One View of the Sea15. Green Water16. Fish17. The Corsair18. To the Sadly Soft Edge of the Waters19. Ruin of Humankind20. Father of Sweet Repose Perf.: Tomasz Konieczny (bas-baritone), Lech Napierała (piano). Total time: 50' * Anaklasis (ANA010), 2020

"Singing and vocal music have accompanied me since my early childhood" – says Romuald Twardowski, born in 1930 in Vilnius. – "Popular tunes, songs hummed by my mother, the sounds of church choirs – all those things were invigorating my imagination."

And as the twig is bent... The voice is the axis of Twardowski's compositions that can be found in the "Songs and Sonnets" album. It combines works that are distant in time and of different emotional weight – from the painful "Farewell Sonnets", 1970 ("Sonety pożegnalne"), devoted to the memory in suddenly deceased Twardowski's fiancée, Danish composer Elizabeth Tramsen, through formally complex song cycle "The Face of the Sea," 1979 ("Oblicze morza"), to the series "From the Viliya" 1990 ("Znad Willi"), written to the words by Helena Massalska, evoking the atmosphere of the old Vilnius region.

"Songs and Sonnets" are performed brilliantly by the world-famous bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, accompanied by the pianist Lech Napierała.

PWM Edition