Frideric Chopin
NATIONAL EDITION Series B - Works published posthumously
Songs
Chopin's songs constitute an outstanding and unique phenomenon in the history of Polish music. When they were composed, no other existed to be compared to, although a lot of songs were composed by many composers at that time (...) . That rich heritage was a living tradition for Chopin, aside from popular songs (e.g. Laura and Filon, or There on the Meadow) and authentic folk songs, especially loved by Chopin. "Chopin's Songs," in the opinion of Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski "bring a synthesis of those three streams of the Polish songs. They are uniquely diverse in genres and forms, character and expression, and each of them establishes an unwritten model for the newly created Romantic Song. And "(...) had they been published earlier than Moniuszko's compositions," concludes Zdzislaw Jachimecki," they would have been dubbed an epoch-making phenomenon in that field of the Polish music. ( BEARTON )
ZYCZENIE Maiden`s Wish WN 21
GDZIE LUBI A Fickie Maid WN 22
POSEL The Messenger WN 30
CZARY Witchcraft WN 31
HULANKA Drinking Song WN 32
PRECZ Z MOICH OCZU Remembrance WN 33
WOJAK Before the Battle WN 34
PIOSNKA LITEWSKA Lithuaniam Song WN 38
SMUTNA RZEKA Traubled Waters WN 39
MAZUR WN 17 a NARZECZONY The Bridegroom`s Return WN 40
SPIEW Z MOGILY - LECI LISCIE Z DRZEWA Poland`s Dirge - Leaves are falling WN 49
PIERSCIEN The Ring WN 50
MOJA PIESZCZOTKA My Enchantress WN 51
WIOSNA Spring WN 52
SLICZNY CHLOPIEC My Beloved WN 54
DUMKA Earlier version of Faded and Vanished WN 57
NIE MA CZEGO TRZEBA Faded and Vanished WN 57
DWOJAKI KONIEC The Lovers WN 58
Z GOR, GDZIE DZWIGALI Bothed` neath their Crosses WN 61
IWONA SOBOTKA, soprano - ARTUR RUCINSKI, baritone - EWA POBLOCKA, piano
Recorded 2009
Hybrid: SACD Surround 5.0, SACD Stereo, CD Audio stereo
