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Shakespeare a cappella

Description

A two-disc album named Soyka & Cracow Singers. Shakespeare a cappella. includes a cycle of William Shakespeare’s sonnets composed by Stanisław Soyka in completely new arrangements for a cappella vocal ensemble and jazz soloist. Album contains sonnets in original language version and in Polish translations of Maciej Słomczyński and Stanisław Barańczak.

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Excerpts

Sonnet 33 – Full many a glorious morning

Sonet 44 – Gdyby dwa mego ciała

Sonnet 115 – Those lines that I before have writ do lie

Sonet 116 – Zdrady są w związku dusz wiernych nieznane

Sonnet 75 – So are you to my thoughts as food to life

Sonet 46 – Śmiertelną wojnę serce z okiem toczy

Sub Ursae

Description

The CD album SUB URSAE – Under the Northern Sky recorded for the German label Raumklang contains all currently known pieces by the Polish composer of the Renaissance, Wacław of Szamotuły. A composer considered the best Polish composer before Chopin, he published his works in Nuremberg’s prints alongside contemporary composers such as Orlando di Lasso. The album is also unique, because it contains reconstructed (in fragments) the longest known composition by Wacław from Szamotuły – Lamentationes.

Excerpts

Lamentation secunda – VAU

Chrześcijanie posłuchajcie (Dekalog więtszy)

I ktoż będzie przemieszkawał

Kryste dniu naszej światłości

In te, Domine speravi

Koniunkcja Panufnik

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KONIUNKCJA PANUFNIK connects three generations of the Panufnik family, Andrzej and his daughter Roxanna. On this recording you can find the only composition for choir by Andrzej Panufnik – Song to the Virgin Mary and five compositions a cappella and vocal-instrumental of Roxanna Panufnik – all of them are recording premieres. Violin built by Tomasz Panufnik was used to record the recording. The album was recorded in the presence of the Roxanna Panufnik.

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