Moniuszko - Songs Vol.2
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Label: NIFC (National Institute Frederick Chopin)
Cat No: NIFCCD116
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 13th May 2022
Contents
Works
Chlopiec i dziewczyna (A Lad and a Lass)Czary (Witchcraft)
Do Basi (To Basia)
Korale (Beads)
Lirnik wioskowy (The Village Hurdy-Gurdy Man) IV
Matko juz nie ma Cie (Mother! You are no more!
Moje bogactwa (My Riches)
Na Nida (On the Nida)
Niepogoda (Bad Weather)
Nigdy serca Krakowiaka (Never will a Krakowiak)
Piesn Wojenna (War Song)
Piesn do slonca (Song to the Sun)
Piesn o krolu Cwieczku (The King of Yvetot)
Pieszczotka (My Enchantress)
Piosnka Sabaudczyka (The Savoyard's Ditty)
Pod gora na gorze (In Lowlands, in Highlands)
Rozmowa (Conversation) I
Soltys (The Village Chief)
Szczescie (Happiness)
Tren (Lament) III
Urzeczony (Bewitched)
Wedrowna ptaszyna (Migrating Bird) I
Wieczny pokoj lirnikowi (The Hurdy-Gurdy Man)
Wrozba znachora (The Folk Healer's Augury)
Wyjazd (Departure)
Za czym wzdychasz (What do you sigh for?)
Znasz-li ten kraj (Do you know the land)
Zwawy chlopczyk (A Lively Laddie)
Artists
Mariusz Godlewski (baritone)Radoslaw Kurek (piano)
Works
Chlopiec i dziewczyna (A Lad and a Lass)Czary (Witchcraft)
Do Basi (To Basia)
Korale (Beads)
Lirnik wioskowy (The Village Hurdy-Gurdy Man) IV
Matko juz nie ma Cie (Mother! You are no more!
Moje bogactwa (My Riches)
Na Nida (On the Nida)
Niepogoda (Bad Weather)
Nigdy serca Krakowiaka (Never will a Krakowiak)
Piesn Wojenna (War Song)
Piesn do slonca (Song to the Sun)
Piesn o krolu Cwieczku (The King of Yvetot)
Pieszczotka (My Enchantress)
Piosnka Sabaudczyka (The Savoyard's Ditty)
Pod gora na gorze (In Lowlands, in Highlands)
Rozmowa (Conversation) I
Soltys (The Village Chief)
Szczescie (Happiness)
Tren (Lament) III
Urzeczony (Bewitched)
Wedrowna ptaszyna (Migrating Bird) I
Wieczny pokoj lirnikowi (The Hurdy-Gurdy Man)
Wrozba znachora (The Folk Healer's Augury)
Wyjazd (Departure)
Za czym wzdychasz (What do you sigh for?)
Znasz-li ten kraj (Do you know the land)
Zwawy chlopczyk (A Lively Laddie)
Artists
Mariusz Godlewski (baritone)Radoslaw Kurek (piano)
About
The PWM Music Encyclopaedia gives a detailed list of more than three hundred works. On closer inspection, however, we see that Moniuszko himself, in the very titles, defined a large bundle of them as pieśni and a somewhat smaller group as piosnki (the term piosnki sielskie, translating as 'idyllic' or 'rustic songs' was common at that time). We can find analogies here with the German terms Gesang and Lied, and the French mélodie and chanson.
Yet the distinction that automatically arises is misleading: not all of Moniuszko's pieśni are serious works, and not all of his piosnki are lighter and humorous. In private, he called his songs piosenki, and he also used the widespread term śpiewy.
In selecting the songs for their second Moniuszko disc (after NIFCCD112), baritone Mariusz Godlewski and pianist Radosław Kurek sought works which, even if representing smaller vocal forms, were closer to the category of pieśni in terms of their semantic weight and their musical and literary qualities. The authorship of Adam Mickiewicz constitutes an indisputable value in that respect.
The large collection of piesni on this disc is very varied; the collection includes also four vocal miniatures penned for the theatre. He left a wealth of songs and ditties to posterity. A gifted pianist himself, Moniuszko sometimes accompanied singers performing his works.
Today we can imagine how that sounded, as the pianist Radosław Kurek accompanies Mariusz Godlewski on this disc on an historical Érard instrument from Moniuszko's times.
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