Emanuel Kania - Songs / Dawid Biwo (bass-baritone) & Dominika Peszko (piano) / DUX Audio CD 2019 / DUX7603

UPC 5902547076034

Emanuel Kania was born on 26 March 1827 in Uszyce near Kluczbork. He died on 16 March 1887 in Warsaw. He was a pianist, composer and music critic. It was most probably his father that gave him his first piano lessons. In 1841, he was admitted to the St. Matthias Junior High School in Wroclaw, where he studied piano with Karl Schnabel and organ with Franz Joseph Wolf. In the composers vocal works, in addition to solo songs with piano accompaniment, one can find many vocal pieces, mainly for a 4-part mixed choir. The songs were published in the Warsaw music press during the composers lifetime, mainly in Gazeta Muzyczna i Teatralna, Echo Muzyczne i Teatralne... However, a number of Kanias songs remain in incomplete manuscripts, and most of them are kept in the collections of the Jagiellonian Library. This album, featuring selected songs by Emanuel Kania, is the world premiere recording of this forgotten oeuvre.

Tracklist:

1 DWIE ZORZE   3:00
   WORDS BY TEOFIL LENARTOWICZ

2 MARZENIE   2:59
   WORDS BY WLODZIMIERZ WOLSKI

3 OTO PLAKALEM WE SNIE   1:59
   WORDS BY HEINRICH HEINE,
   POLISH TRANSLATION BY ADAM ASNYK

4 MOJA PIESZCZOTKA   3:00
   WORDS BY ADAM MICKIEWICZ

5 CHATA W CIENIU   6:41
   WORDS BY WLODZIMIERZ WOLSKI

6 MAZUREK   2:36
   WORDS BY AMALIA PRUSZAKOWSKA

7 COZ KOMU DO TEGO   2:00
   WORDS BY AMALIA PRUSZAKOWSKA (?)

8 ROMANS   2:47
   WORDS BY JAN KANTY GREGOROWICZ

9 SPIEW WIESLAWA 3:40
   WORDS BY KAZIMIERZ BRODZINSKI

10 ROZNE tZY 5:33
   WORDS BY ADAMASNYK 

11 GDY OSTATNIA ROZA ZWIEDEA   2:32
     WORDS BY ADAM ASNYK

12 PERCHE (DLACZEGO)   3:12
     AUTHOR OF WORDS NOT KNOWN,
     POLISH TRANSLATION BY JAN CHECINSKI)

13 OSTATNI WIANEK   5:21
     WORDS BY KAROL KUCZ

14 NOWA WIOSNA   1:33
     WORDS BY HEINRICH HEINE,
     POLISH TRANSLATION BY ADAM ASNYK

15 LULI   10:15
     WORDS BY BOHDAN ZALESKI

16 SPIEWAK W OBCEJ STRONIE   3:40
     WORDS BY BOHDAN ZALESKI

17 PIESN MOJEGO ZYCIA   5:08
     AUTHOR OF WORDS NOT KNOWN

18 ROZYCZKA NA tACE    2:28
     WORDS BY JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE,
     POLISH TRANSLATION BY STANISLAW BUDZINSKI

19 CZYJAZ WINA 3:28
     WORDS BY AMALIA PRUSZAKOWSKA

• Bass-baritone - Dawid Biwo
• Piano - Dominika Peszko