The Light of a Winter Night
The first album of Christmas carols recorded by the NFM Boys’ Choir. It contains traditional Christmas-themed songs and a Christmas suite composed by a young Wrocław artist, Michał Ziółkowski.
The Light of a Winter Night
The first album of Christmas carols recorded by the NFM Boys’ Choir. It contains traditional Christmas-themed songs and a Christmas suite composed by a young Wrocław artist, Michał Ziółkowski.
Date of release: 2021
Publishers: National Forum of Music, CD Accord
Conductor: Małgorzata Podzielny
Performers: NFM Boys’ Choir, NFM Choir, NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra
Christmas carols are associated with a certain nostalgia – these melodies have always reminded me of childhood, and I think it will always be like that. They were some of the first melodies I learned to play on my (actually borrowed from my little sister) plastic harmonica. I wanted to harmonise this nostalgia of the irretrievable past. Even in the most cheerful, hopeful Christmas carols, the harmonic layer is not clearly defined. It has the beautiful quality of ruling over the emotionality of music to a great extent – it gives it context. Thus, the door to other dimensions, even of the simplest melodies, can open, and carols to which our ear is already used to can take on a new meaning.
Michał Ziółkowski
