Najpiekniejsze Koledy - The Most Beautiful Polish Carols

The story of legendary choir Poznanskie Slowiki (The Poznan Nightingales) choir goes back to 1939. Stefan Stuligrosz was founder of the ensemble which was greatly renowned in Poland and abroad between the world wars. Stuligrosz's Choir is characterized by a unique excellence of sound, perfected and ennobled throughout the 60-odd-year period of symbiosis with one master. Affiliated to the Poznan Philharmonic since 1951, it is an amateur ensemble which competes with ease with professional choirs. The boys are students of various schools, the men are either university students or work in different professions. They meet for rehearsals three times a week and perform 60-70 times a year in a variety of venues, in small churches, cathedrals and basilicas, on the stages in towns and huge cities, including the most famous halls of music, radio, television, and film studios. Abroad alone they have given around 3,000 concerts in almost all European countries as well as in the USA, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. The group of listeners of the Choir includes kings and presidents of states. Especially John Paul II appreciates greatly the music of "The Poznan Nightingales". The Choir's repertoire includes over 1,000 works, from medieval monody and Renaissance masters (e.g. G. P. da Palestrina) through vocal and instrumental masterpieces of Baroque (J. S. Bach, G. F. Haendel), Classicism (W. A. Mozart, J. Haydn, L. van Beethoven), and Romanticism (F. Schubert, F. Mendelssohn - Bartoldy), to 20th-century compositions, especially by Polish composers (K. Szymanowski, T. Szeligowski, W. Kilar, and K. Penderecki). Renowned Polish and foreign artists frequently perform with the Choir; these are such singers as Barbara Hendriks, Renata Scotto, Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa, Teresa Zylis-Gara, Ryszard Karczykowski and directors as Leonard Bernstein and Stanislaw Wislocki. Apart from the Poznan Philharmonic, the Choir cooperates also with the "Sinfonia Varsovia" orchestra. The Choir is a member of the "Pueri Cantores" World Federation of Church Choirs. Close to 2,000 people have at one point or another spent some time in the "nest of the Poznan Nightingales". This Choir was born of the centuries-long music tradition of Poznan, especially of the depth of spiritual profundity, expertise, and artistic imagination of Fr. Dr W. Gieburowski. On those foundations Stefan Stuligrosz, through his talent, perseverance, knowledge, intuition, experience, and passion, set up his own work, a STULIGROSZEUM, as it were. It is an informal school of behavior and shaping characters in which there are strict yet clear rules of conduct within a community, a system of values that is characterized by responsibility, friendship, openness to those who are nearby and those more distant, where great art and humility in contact with it is connected with a way of everyday life. It is the highest esteem for the tradition of national culture coupled with respect for its European and global heritage. The flock of the "Poznan Nightingales", scattered all over Poland and in dozens of countries in both hemispheres, proves all the time that the ideals and the experience of their childhood and their youth, as well as the charisma of the Conductor bear fruit, no matter who you are and where you live.
ASIN: B001L560U2
VSKU: LFV.B001L560U2.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:POZNANSKIE SLOWIKI
Binding: Audio cd
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Condition Notes: CD Very Good - Case is in great condition. Comes with all artwork. Disc quality is near perfect. Guarantee in working condition.