Words Painted with Sounds
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny – conductor
RELEASE DATE: 01/2012
CATALOGUE NO. ACD 169
GENRE: choral music / vocal ensemble
This record – the first CD recorded independently by Wrocław Philharmonic Choir, entitled „Words Painted with Sounds” – presents Polish poetry set to music by Polish composers. These compositions perfectly combine words with music, and this combination provided the choir and its conductor with a basis for the interpretation of each work. The selected compositions are choral miniatures with numerous elements of musical rhetoric; they represent the beauty of both Polish music and poetry. The poets, writing in different times and styles, offer a glimpse of the immense wealth of Polish verbal art, whereas the music, written by contemporary Polish composers, demonstrates their great sensitivity and rhetorical awareness. (…)
We have made our best of the knowledge and skills that we possess, so that the pictures which first appeared in the mind of the poet, then – the composer, the conductor, and eventually – the choir, could also be reflected in the imagination of the listeners.
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny
Translation: Tomasz Zymer
Jan Antoni Wichrowski
Elegy for a Polish Boy – songs for mixed choir to words by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
1. Platoon Marches 2:39
2. Elegy for… [a Polish Boy] 3:22
3. For Mom – Krzysztof 2:42
Józef Świder
4. Prayer to Mother of God (words Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński) 2:22
5. Lullaby (words Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński) 1:59
6. Dance (words Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński) 3:28
7. Song about Happiness (words Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński) 2:01
8. My Song (words Cyprian kamil Norwid) 2:47
Zofia Urbanyi-Krasnodębska
9. ver the Grave of Julia Capuletti (words Cyprian kamil Norwid) 2:28
Józef Świder
10. The Seasons (words Leopold Staff) 1:16
11. Autumn (words Leopold Staff) 2:33
12. I Like It When at the End of Day (words Leopold Staff) 2:40
Four Sonnets to words by Leopold Staff
13. God is Born 1:25
14. I Have Found God 1:21
15. I Love, O Lord 2:05
16. Lord, You Saved Us 2:15
17. Who Looks for You… (words Leopold Staff) 2:05
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (arr. Stanisław Wiechowicz)
18. Tears Have Flown (words Adam Mickiewicz) 2:11
19. By the Wide Water (words Adam Mickiewicz) 2:24
20. The Piper’s Song (words Adam Mickiewicz) 3:10
21. So Much (words Adam Mickiewicz) 2:55
Stanisław Niewiadomski (arr.Stanisław Wiechowicz)
22. Sophie (words Adam Mickiewicz) 1:20
Total time: 53:26
