ANAKLASIS / katalog / Heritage / ANA 006
CD / 05.05.2020
CD1 Songs from Songbooks for Home Use
1. Song to the Sun | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
2. The Four Seasons | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
3. Little Flower | from Songbook IX for Home Use
4. Rue | from Songbook IX for Home Use
5. The Return of Spring | from Songbook IX for Home Use
6. Ophelia’s Song | from Songbook IX for Home Use
7. Soldier’s Song | from Songbook II for Home Use
8. Do You Know the Land [II] | from Songbook IV for Home Use
9. O Mother Mine | from Songbook V for Home Use
10. Two Dawns | from Songbook XI for Home Use
CD2 Arias & Ensembles
1. What a dreadful morning – Ah! Perhaps amid this storm
2. The rafts float down the Vistula
3. Why in those lonely moments
4. Like a sapling battered by the wind
5. If in the morning sunshine
6. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1953]
7. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1961]
8. When it’s time to part our ways
9. We can play here as much as we like – Who wishes the heart of my daughters
10. Never share sorrow or joy
11. To remain bachelors until death
12. This grandfather clock
13. Aria with Carillon
CD3 Overtures
1. Fairy Tale Fantastical Overture
2. Overture to the opera Paria
3. Overture to the opera Verbum nobile
4. Overture to the opera The Countess
5. Overture to the opera Halka
6. Overture to the opera The Raftsman
7. Intrada to the opera The Haunted Manor
1. Song to the Sun | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
2. The Four Seasons | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
3. Little Flower | from Songbook IX for Home Use
4. Rue | from Songbook IX for Home Use
5. The Return of Spring | from Songbook IX for Home Use
6. Ophelia’s Song | from Songbook IX for Home Use
7. Soldier’s Song | from Songbook II for Home Use
8. Do You Know the Land [II] | from Songbook IV for Home Use
9. O Mother Mine | from Songbook V for Home Use
10. Two Dawns | from Songbook XI for Home Use
CD2 Arias & Ensembles
1. What a dreadful morning – Ah! Perhaps amid this storm
2. The rafts float down the Vistula
3. Why in those lonely moments
4. Like a sapling battered by the wind
5. If in the morning sunshine
6. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1953]
7. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1961]
8. When it’s time to part our ways
9. We can play here as much as we like – Who wishes the heart of my daughters
10. Never share sorrow or joy
11. To remain bachelors until death
12. This grandfather clock
13. Aria with Carillon
CD3 Overtures
1. Fairy Tale Fantastical Overture
2. Overture to the opera Paria
3. Overture to the opera Verbum nobile
4. Overture to the opera The Countess
5. Overture to the opera Halka
6. Overture to the opera The Raftsman
7. Intrada to the opera The Haunted Manor
Andrzej Hiolski - baritone
Antonina Kawecka - soprano
Bernard Ładysz - bass
Maria Kunińska-Opacka - soprano
Bogdan Paprocki - tenor
Halina Słonicka - soprano
Walerian Bierdiajew - conductor
Grzegorz Fitelberg - conductor
Zdzisław Górzyński - conductor
Jan Krenz - conductor
Jerzy Semkow - conductor
ANA 006
SONGS | ARIAS | OVERTURES THE BEST 20TH CENTURY RECORDINGS
“The Best of…” compilations are a product of long-established music markets. They caught on when the catalogues of popular composers’ and performers’ albums became too large to follow even for the most fervent fans looking for their favourite numbers. Though such an approach to the legacy of one of the greatest composers in Polish music history may seem blasphemous, we suggest that this 3CD release should be treated rather as a kind of guiding map, which makes possible a bold plunge into the world of Moniuszko’s music and its numerous interpretations. Our carefully selected programme includes songs for voice and piano (sung here by Maria Kunińska-Opacka and Andrzej Hiolski), arias from the operas The Raftsman, The Haunted Manor, and Halka, as well as operatic overtures. The album seems successfully to sum up the Moniuszko Year as well as proving that twelve months is much too little to get thoroughly acquainted with, and ensure proper recognition for his music.
CD1 Songs from Songbooks for Home Use
1. Song to the Sun | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
2. The Four Seasons | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
3. Little Flower | from Songbook IX for Home Use
4. Rue | from Songbook IX for Home Use
5. The Return of Spring | from Songbook IX for Home Use
6. Ophelia’s Song | from Songbook IX for Home Use
7. Soldier’s Song | from Songbook II for Home Use
8. Do You Know the Land [II] | from Songbook IV for Home Use
9. O Mother Mine | from Songbook V for Home Use
10. Two Dawns | from Songbook XI for Home Use
CD2 Arias & Ensembles
1. What a dreadful morning – Ah! Perhaps amid this storm
2. The rafts float down the Vistula
3. Why in those lonely moments
4. Like a sapling battered by the wind
5. If in the morning sunshine
6. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1953]
7. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1961]
8. When it’s time to part our ways
9. We can play here as much as we like – Who wishes the heart of my daughters
10. Never share sorrow or joy
11. To remain bachelors until death
12. This grandfather clock
13. Aria with Carillon
CD3 Overtures
1. Fairy Tale Fantastical Overture
2. Overture to the opera Paria
3. Overture to the opera Verbum nobile
4. Overture to the opera The Countess
5. Overture to the opera Halka
6. Overture to the opera The Raftsman
7. Intrada to the opera The Haunted Manor
1. Song to the Sun | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
2. The Four Seasons | from Songbook VIII for Home Use
3. Little Flower | from Songbook IX for Home Use
4. Rue | from Songbook IX for Home Use
5. The Return of Spring | from Songbook IX for Home Use
6. Ophelia’s Song | from Songbook IX for Home Use
7. Soldier’s Song | from Songbook II for Home Use
8. Do You Know the Land [II] | from Songbook IV for Home Use
9. O Mother Mine | from Songbook V for Home Use
10. Two Dawns | from Songbook XI for Home Use
CD2 Arias & Ensembles
1. What a dreadful morning – Ah! Perhaps amid this storm
2. The rafts float down the Vistula
3. Why in those lonely moments
4. Like a sapling battered by the wind
5. If in the morning sunshine
6. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1953]
7. The firs sigh on the mountain top [1961]
8. When it’s time to part our ways
9. We can play here as much as we like – Who wishes the heart of my daughters
10. Never share sorrow or joy
11. To remain bachelors until death
12. This grandfather clock
13. Aria with Carillon
CD3 Overtures
1. Fairy Tale Fantastical Overture
2. Overture to the opera Paria
3. Overture to the opera Verbum nobile
4. Overture to the opera The Countess
5. Overture to the opera Halka
6. Overture to the opera The Raftsman
7. Intrada to the opera The Haunted Manor
Andrzej Hiolski - baritone
Antonina Kawecka - soprano
Bernard Ładysz - bass
Maria Kunińska-Opacka - soprano
Bogdan Paprocki - tenor
Halina Słonicka - soprano
Walerian Bierdiajew - conductor
Grzegorz Fitelberg - conductor
Zdzisław Górzyński - conductor
Jan Krenz - conductor
Jerzy Semkow - conductor
