Polish Songs, Op 74

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Polish Songs, Op 74
Urszula Kryger (mezzo) Charles Spencer (piano)

[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 22 January 2007

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'A rare opportunity to sample Chopin the song composer, here performed with real feeling by Polish mezzo Urszula Kryger.'(Gramophone)

Rosette Recording - Penguin Stereo Guide

'A rare opportunity to sample Chopin the song composer, here performed with real feeling by Polish mezzo Urszula Kryger. The dark core of melancholy in Kryger's voice is fine-tunes to the Slavic melodic contours of a song like The Sad Stream. And her instinctive grasp of both musical and verbal inflection makes for a beautifully understated performance of Melodya, Chopin's last, heartfelt song of exile'
(Gramophone)

'There's no excuse not to encounter a master miniaturist painting on less familiar canvesses'
(BBC Music Magazine)

Tracks:

Wiosna (Spring) Op 74 No 2 [2'32]
Gdzie lubi (There where she loves; What she likes) Op 74 No 5 [1'12]
Hulanka (Drinking Song; Merrymaking; Bacchanale) Op 74 No 4 [1'20]
Piosnka Litewska (Lithuanian Song) Op 74 No 16 [2'11]
Czary (Witchcraft; Charms; Enchantment) without opus number [1'22]
Sliczny Chlopiec (Handsome Lad; Charming Lad) Op 74 No 8 [2'16]
Zyczenie (My Wish; The Maiden's Wish) Op 74 No 1 [1'47]
Moja Pieszczotka (My Darling; My Joys) Op 74 No 12 [1'48]
Precz z moich oczu (Out of my sight) Op 74 No 6 [3'30]
Wojak (The Warrior) Op 74 No 10 [2'07]
Spiew z mogiìy (Leaves are falling; Hymn from the Tomb; The Orphan) Op 74 No 17 [5'04]
Posel (The Envoy; The Messenger) Op 74 No 7 [2'38]
Pierscien (The Ring) Op 74 No 14 [1'29]
Narzeczony (The Bridegroom; The Betrothed, The Return Home) Op 74 No 15 [1'59]
Smutna rzeka (Sad River; The Sad Stream; Troubled Waters) Op 74 No 3 [4'10]
Dumka (Reverie) without opus number [1'32]
Dwojaki koniec (The Two Corpses; The Twofold End; Death's Divisions) Op 74 No 11 [2'14]
Nie ma czego trzeba (Faded and vanished; Lack of Light; Melancholy) Op 74 No 13 [4'31]
Melodia (Elegy; Lamento) Op 74 No 9 [2'49]

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