Stanisław Moniuszko - Widma - Phantoms
Andrzej Kosendiak – conductor
Jarosław Bręk – bass-baritone – Guślarz
Paweł Janyst – Guślarz
Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk – soprano – Maiden
Beata Passini – Maiden
Jerzy Butryn – bass-baritone – Phantom
Przemysław Wasilkowski – Voice
Joanna Rot – mezzosopran – Owl
Anna Wieczorek – Owl
Dominik Kujawa – baritone – Raven
Mariusz Bonaszewski – Raven
Antoni Szuszkiewicz – boy soprano – Little Angel
Mikołaj Szuszkiewicz – boy soprano – Little Angel
Chór NFM
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny – artistic director
Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa
Jarosław Thiel – artistic director
Małgorzata Podzielny – ptutor to soloists of NFM Boys’ Choir
Paweł Passini – director of spoken parts
RELEASE DATE: 05/2018
CATALOGUE NO. ACD 243
GENRE: oratorio and cantata music
The latest CD of the National Forum of Music and CD Accord features Phantoms – a cantata by Stanisław Moniuszko according to Part II of Adam Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve. The recording produced by prominent singers – among others Jarosław Bręk, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk and Jerzy Butryn, as well as actors, the NFM Choir and Wrocław Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Andrzej Kosendiak – is the first in the original version, cleared of subsequent editorial changes. The album, which is the world premiere of the recording, is a rarity on the publishing market. The reconstruction of the score was made by Maciej Prochaska, whose commentary was included in the booklet for the album. The CD materials include an essay by Grzegorz Zieziula, who specialises in the history and theory of 19th-century music and works at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO (1819-1872)
WIDMA – PHANTOMS
cantata, lyric scenes, according to “Forefather’s Eve” Part Two by Adam Mickiewicz
Stanisław Moniuszko’s original score reconstruction – Maciej Prochaska
1. Introduction 2:35
2. Intrada: Lento – Allegretto (Ghost I) – Lento – Un poco agitato ma troppo presto (Ghost II) – Tempo I – Andantino (Ghost III) 5:26
No. 1
3. 1A: All is darkness, all is quiet (Chorus) 0:53
4. 1B: Close the chapel doors now, tight (Guślarz, Old Man) 0:50
5. 1C: All is darkness, all is quiet (Chorus, Guślarz) 2:01
6. 1D: Pour some incense in my hands (Guślarz) 0:19
7. 1E: First, I call you lighter souls (Guślarz, Chorus) 1:08
No. 2
8. Look, ah, look up in the air (Guślarz, Little Angel, Chorus) 6:38
No. 3
9. 3A: O, little soul – what do you need (Guślarz, Little Angel, Chorus) 2:13
10. 3B: Little Angel, little soul (Guślarz, Chorus) 1:25
No. 4
11. Now the dreadful hour’s at hand (Guślarz, Old Man, Chorus) 1:49
No. 5
12. Away, she-eagles! Ravens! Owls! (Voice, Guślarz, Chorus) 1:43
13. Aria: Children, ho! Don’t you know me, children? (Ghost, Guślarz, Chorus) 3:16
No. 6
14. 6A: What then is needed, for your soul (Guślarz, Ghost, Chorus) 3:43
15. 6B: You’re hungry? Oh – a thousand pardons! (Raven, Chorus) 2:11
16. 6C: You’re hungry? Oh – a thousand pardons! (Raven, Chorus) 2:39
No. 7
17. 7A: No help, although I need it badly! (Ghost, Chorus) 1:29
18. 7B: If we may not allay your pain (Guślarz, Chorus) 0:47
No. 8
19. Now take the wreath down from the pole (Guślarz, Old Man, Chorus) 2:55
No. 9
20. Mother of God! This image! Thine? (Guślarz) 0:27
21. Duettino: She wears a wreath upon her brow (Guślarz, Maiden, Chorus) 4:04
No. 10
22. Zosia’s Song: Oh, once among the springtime dew (Maiden) 1:42
No. 11
23. 11A: Yes, I was Zosia (Maiden, Chorus) 3:14
24. 11B: What need your soul, so sorely driven (Guślarz, Maiden, Chorus) 1:31
25. 11C: In vain you rush – these are but shades (Guślarz, Chorus) 1:08
No. 12
26. 12A: Now each and every soul I call (Guślarz, Chorus) 1:28
27. 12B: That’s all, time’s up. Open the door (Guślarz, Chorus, Old Man) 4:54
28. 12C*: This defies all human reason! (Guślarz, Chorus) 2:36
ORIGINAL VERSION – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
*Edition of this fragment on the basis of the composer’s draft is attriuted to Władysław Żeleński and Adam Münchheimer.
Total time: 65:18
