Release Date: 23 August 2024
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547020020
Composer/Series: Songs (Chopin, Moniuszko, Szymanowski etc.)
Description
DUX Recording Producers presents a new album in memory of internationally renowned Polish tenor Tomasz Zagorski. On the album, we find recordings of twenty-four songs composed by nine Polish composers. Thus, it is a cross-sectional, comprehensive approach to native vocal works. In most cases, we can hear pieces that performers reach for especially often, and the audience simply expects them. At the same time, the performers here reach a wonderful, artistic understanding.
This unique album preserves the memory of an Artist whose thread of life and career, at its very peak, was broken so unexpectedly and suddenly. Tomasz Zagorski died in 2021, at the age of fifty-six, unable to face what the time of the pandemic brought us. We dedicate this album to his memory in the need to preserve a lasting trace documenting the talent of the artist at the peak of vocal art mastery.
The CD opens with Fryderyk Chopin's song Wojak [Before the Battle]. The pianist, Jacek Kortus, immediately sets the tone of a soldier's call, as announced by the first words of Stefan Witwicki's poem: 'My bay horse neighs, stamps; let us go, it is time, it is time!' Tomasz Zagorski takes up this soldier's call with enthusiasm and totally aware of what is at stake.
Tracklisting
Chor "Astrolabium", Tomasz Drozdek T.ETNO, Kinga Litowska
Monika Plachta, Chor Mieszany Katedry Wawelskiej, Andrzej Korzeniowski, Pawel Wajrak, Katarzyna Luk
Roberta Mameli, Adam Kruzel, Polski Chor Kameralny, Sinfonia Varsovia, Jan Lukaszewski
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
Cracow Golden Quintet
Capella Warmiensis Restituta, Ingrida Gapova, Kacper Szelazek, Aleksander Rewinski, Piotr Pieron
Adnieszka Rehlis, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, Magdalena Blum
Roksana Kwasnikowska, Krzysztof Stanienda
Marianne Beate Kielland, Nils Anders Mortensen
Adnieszka Rehlis, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, Magdalena Blum
Milan Siljanov; Nino Chokhnelidze
Thomas Elwin and Lana Bode
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Nicky Spence; Julius Drake
Kartal Karagedik
Billie Poole
