Moniuszko: Songs

Release Date: 10th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: NIFCCD135
Label: Frederick Chopin Institute

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Moniuszko: Cztery pory roku (Dla Kazi)

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Pod Zygmunta slupem

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Trzy kwiatki

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Nad spokojna tonia wody

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Dola

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Wezwanie do mazura (Hejże, gracko z miejsc, panowie!)

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Korowaju moj

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Slowiczek

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Improwizacja (Gdybym się zmienił w wstęgę złocistą)

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Anioł dziecina

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Bal na lodzie

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Mialem ci ja klaczke

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Po wode

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Pieśń wójta (Hej, chłopcy, na łąkę i kosić)

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Pociąg do kradzieży (Jestże choć jedno z Prometeja dzieci)

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Lza (Tear)

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Dni radosci

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Przed zachodem

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Lirnik wioskowy

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Rybaczka

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Slonce skrylo swietne lica

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Tren V

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Stary hulaka

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

Moniuszko: Maciek: Hej, do tańca, dziewuchy!

Marius Godlewski (baritone), Radoslaw Kurek (piano)

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This new CD from The Fryderyk Chopin Institute (NIFC) presents the songs of Stanislaw Moniuszko, performed here by Marius Godlewski (baritone) and Radoslaw Kurek (piano). The album has been recorded on Moniszko's own piano, preserved at Warsaw's 'Teatr Wielki' Polish National Opera.

For their third joint album, baritone Mariusz Godlewski and pianist Radoslaw Kurek have curated a selection of songs which represents the full diversity of themes found within Moniuzsko's oeuvre.

In aid of the preservation of Polish national identity, The Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning (TPN) published Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Historical Songs (1816): thirty-two poems about Polish kings, knights, and commanders, complete with drawings, set for voice and piano by about a dozen different musicians.

With twenty successive editions, this collection became the bible of the Polish youth, and the songs were sung in homes throughout Poland, including the Moniuszko family's household in Ubiel (Minsk Region, now Ubel in Belarus). Moniuszko spent his childhood evenings singing those songs with his mother Elbieta; he apparently learned them by heart. Moniuszko went on to become known as the 'Polish Schubert'.

In his Studies on Romantic Song, Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski lists the main thematic areas of Schubert's Lieder: namely, historical and love songs, pieces dedicated to social life, concerning the fatherland and nature, as well as philosophical and religious ones. Similar themes can be found in the songs of Stanislaw Moniuszko, the Polish Schubert.

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