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From the very beginning of his musical career the creative interests of Staniław Moniuszko were mainly focused on two domains of music: opera and solo song, both vocal genres. In those two forms he occupied the leading position in Polish musical culture, producing a series of fine operas and an enormous collection of songs (over 300).

Lista utworów:
Modlitwa: O Władco Świata I (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Modlitwa w kościołku: Ojcze z niebios, Boże, Panie! (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Modlitwa: Dzięki Ci przedwieczny Panie (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Hymn do Pana Jezusa: Z Ojcem prezdwiecznym stolicę dzieli (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Modlitwa: Do Ciebie Panie (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Modlitwa: W poświstach wichrów losu (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Wieczny pokój lirnikowi: Boże Wszechmocny (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Sub tuum praesidium. Pod Twoją obronę (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Zwiastowanie: Lśni Gabriel promienną ozdobą (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Modlitwa: O Mario, bądź pozdrowiona (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Hymn o św. Stanisławie: Cześć Tobie, naszej krainy patronie! (Stanisław Moniuszko)
Modlitwa Pańska: W ciężkiej niedoli (Stanisław Moniuszko)

Marcin Józef Żebrowski, the composer, violinist, bass vocalist and teacher, has to be regarded as one of the best known and, at the same time, most distinguished representatives of the Jasna Góra chapel. Żebrowski is one of the earliest composers of masses, four of which are kept in the Jasna Góra archives. Missa ex D, probably the earliest of them, as confirmed, above all, by stylistic analysis as well as the external features of the manuscript, is intended for two vocal parts (canto and basso) accompanied by an instrumental ensemble, made up of the so - called Kirchentrio, i. e. two violins and continuo, reinforced by double clarini (ad libitum).

Lista utworów:
Missa ex D (Żebrowski M. J.)

Dziewięć Arii Niemieckich jednego z największych kompozytorów muzyki klasycznej - Józefa Haydna. Haydn uważany jest za ojca muzyki symfonicznej i kwartetu smyczkowego. Teksty arii pochodzą z cyklu wierszy Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott poety Bartholda Heinricha Brockesa.

Marcin Józef Żebrowski is one of the earliest composers of Masses among Jasna Góra musicians. At present we know of five manuscripts containing his Masses, four of which are kept in the Jasna Góra archives. Missa Pastoralis belongs to those of the composer's works, which are probably most often quoted in musicological literature, mainly on account of the wide use of motivic material drawn from Polish folk music. This composition, as opposed to the earlier, four-part Missa Pastoritia, is designed for two vocal parts (canto and basso) accompanied by an instrumental ensemble composed of the so-called Kirchentrio (two violins and b. c.) reinforced by double clarini. What is worth emphasizing is the stylistic affinity of both Żebrowski's pastoral Masses (there are even material borrowings of whole items - Cum Sancto and Et resurrexit), which undoubtedly provide the most interesting examples of this form in Polish musical culture.

Lista utworów:
Missa Pastoralis (Żebrowski Marcin Józef)

Marcin Józef Żebrowski is one of the earliest composers of Masses among Jasna Góra musicians. At present we know of five manuscripts containing his Masses, four of which are kept in the Jasna Góra archives. Missa Pastoralis belongs to those of the composer's works, which are probably most often quoted in musicological literature, mainly on account of the wide use of motivic material drawn from Polish folk music. This composition, as opposed to the earlier, four-part Missa Pastoritia, is designed for two vocal parts (canto and basso) accompanied by an instrumental ensemble composed of the so-called Kirchentrio (two violins and b. c.) reinforced by double clarini. What is worth emphasizing is the stylistic affinity of both Żebrowski's pastoral Masses (there are even material borrowings of whole items - Cum Sancto and Et resurrexit), which undoubtedly provide the most interesting examples of this form in Polish musical culture.

Lista utworów:
Missa pastoralis (Żebrowski Marcin Józef)

In his "Chantefleurs et chantefables", Lutosławski set nine short rhymes about flowers and animals written by the French poet Robert Desnos (1900 - 45) in 1940. The word "Chantefables" ("song-fables") was invented by Desnos to refer to miniature stories about animals, birds and insects, whereas the word "Chantefleurs" ("song-flowers") denotes correspondingly short lirycal poems about flowers. Lutosławski had already used Desnos' poetry in his songs for baritone and orchestra, Les espaces du sommeil. The work Chantedleurs et chantefables also begins with a dream-like atmosphere - reminiscent of the surrealistic Les espaces du sommeil (1975) - in The Beauty of the Night (La Belle-de-nuit), denoting a flower, which blooms after the sunset and therefore is called like that in France. The music helps us to form in our minds an image of dreams floating to the moon. The Rose (La Rose) drifts into sleep in the heat of the summer sun. Throughout his life Lutosławski declared himself an opponent of programmatic and illustrative music, but the sound painting in Chantefleurs et chantefables is simply striking. Musical humour appears, in the first place, in the four zoological portraits - of the grasshopper, the tortoise, the alligator and a swarm of butterflies. The grasshoper hops with abandon, the tortoise plods along and dreams. The hungry alligator tries in vain to entrap an appetizing little black boy, while the swarm of 300 million butterflies drink up a cup of broth in Chatillon, taking it away from the local people.

Lista utworów:
La Belle de nuit (Lutosławski Witold)
La Sauterelle (Lutosławski Witold)
La Véronique (Lutosławski Witold)
L'Eglantine, l'aubépine et la glycine (Lutosławski Witold)
La Tortue (Lutosławski Witold)
La Rose (Lutosławski Witold)
L'Alligator (Lutosławski Witold)
L'Angelique (Lutosławski Witold)
Le Papillon (Lutosławski Witold)