Universal Prayer
The latest album by the Polish National Youth Choir with soloists, singers and instrumentalists conducted by Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny and Łukasz Borowicz. This is a monographic album devoted to the choral works of Andrzej Panufnik, recorded on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the composer's birth.
Universal Prayer
The latest album by the Polish National Youth Choir with soloists, singers and instrumentalists conducted by Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny and Łukasz Borowicz. This is a monographic album devoted to the choral works of Andrzej Panufnik, recorded on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the composer's birth.
Album premiere: 20.12.2024
Publisher: National Forum of Music, CD Accord
Conductor: Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny[1–3], Łukasz Borowicz [4–9]
Performers: Natalia Rubiś, Małgorzata Krzemień, Małgorzata Pańko-Edery, Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak, Wojtek Gierlach, Malwina Lipiec-Rozmysłowicz, Elżbieta Korelus, Krzysztof Waloszczyk, Jakub Waszczeniuk, Grzegorz Krause, Piotr Bugaj, Eloy Panizo Padrón, Wojciech Jeliński, Filip Kołaczyk, Iñaki Cuenca, Daniel Kamiński, Tomasz Kowalczyk, Roman Perucki, Polish National Youth Choir
“Andrzej Panufnik is valued primarily for his symphonic works. However, his oeuvre includes several compositions with the participation of the choir, and they are those that have been collected on this album. All of them come from the composer’s second, British period of life, although it should be noted that in some of them he reaches both for Polish themes and for music created before he left Poland in 1954. At that time, Panufnik, taking advantage of a short stay at a recording session for Swiss Radio, instead of returning to Poland, managed to get to London with the help of friends and asked for political asylum there. He visited Poland only in 1990, after the democratic changes. His music and name were banned in the country until 1977. At that time, he was establishing himself professionally in Great Britain”.
Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska
