POLDOWSKI • SONGS

DUX 2170/2171
• Pieśni do słów Paula Verlaine’a

Co-financed with a grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage through the Fund for the Promotion of Culture under the “MUSICAL TRACE” programme managed by the National Institute of Music and Dance

DUX 2170Total time: [47:28]

Irene Poldowski

Pieśni do słów Paula Verlaine’a

1. En sourdine (1911)

[2:34]

2. Colombine (1913)

[2:06]

3. Cortege (1913)

[1:50]

4. Cythere (1913)

[1:22]

5. Fantoches (1913)

[1:52]

6. Mandoline (1913)

[2:03]

7. Sur l’herbe (1918)

[2:00]

8. Le faune (1919)

[1:20]

9. A Clymene (1927)

[2:10]

10. Bruxelles (1911)

[2:47]

11. Dimanche d’Avril (L’échelonnement des haies) (1911)

[2:29]

12. L’attente (1912)

[2:12]

13. Brume (1913)

[1:59]

14. Circonspection (1913)

[2:34]

15. Dansons la gigue (1913)

[1:52]

16. Effet de neige (1913)

[2:51]

17. Impression fausse (1913)

[2:26]

18. L’heure exquise (1913)

[2:20]

19. Spleen (1913)

[2:21]

20. Crépuscule du soir mystique (1914)

[2:23]

21. A Poor Young Shepherd (J’ai peur d’un baiser) (1924)

[1:50]

22. Nous deux (early unpublished)

[2:08]

DUX 2171Total time: [38:59]

Irene Poldowski

Songs to Poems by French Poets and English Texts

1. Hier, le vent du soir (Victor Hugo) (1903)

[2:12]

2. Berceuse d’Armorique (Anatole le Braz) (1914)

[3:32]

3. Nocturne (des Cantilenes) (Jean Moréas) (1914)

[4:03]

4. Sérénade (Adolphe Retté) (1914)

[2:58]

5. Dans une musette (Jean Dominique/Marie Closset) (1919)

[3:43]

6. Pannyre aux talons d’or (Albert Samain) (1919)

[3:57]

7. Soir (Albert Samain) (1920)

[4:40]

8. La passante (Poldowski) (1924)

[2:23]

9. O! Let the Solid Ground (Alfred Tennyson) (1900)

[2:33]

10. Down by the Salley Gardens (William Butler Yeats) (1900)

[1:19]

11. Denholm Dean (William Dundas Scott-Moncrieff) (1904)

[1:46]

12. Song (My silks and fine array) (William Blake) (1924)

[2:10]

13. Reeds of Innocence (Piping down the valleys wild) (William Blake) (1924)

[2:08]

14. To Love (Anon.) (1927)

[1:36]

Performers:
Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział /soprano/
Ewa Guz-Seroka /piano/

Recommendations

PAUL CARO • STRING QUINTETS

DUX 2209
• String Quintet in F major (1893) • String Quintet in E minor (1905)

ZBIGNIEW BARGIELSKI VOL. 3 • LETTER TO MILENA

DUX 2222
• Night-Day. Five Songs for soprano and piano • Two Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano • Nightmare for baritone and piano • Four Love Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano • Letter to Milena [Brief an Milena] for soprano, violin and piano

Songs of Love and Longing for Baritone and Piano • Karłowicz | Maklakiewicz | Baird

DUX 2232
• Seven Songs for Baritone and Piano to Words by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1896 and earlier) • Songs of Longing. Three Songs for Baritone and Piano to Words by Jan Kasprowicz (1983) • Four Love Sonnets for Baritone and Piano to Words by William Shakespeare (1956) (translation by Maciej Słomczyński)

Giovanni Pierluigi da PaleStrina Offertoria totius anni

DUX 2238-2241
• Offertoria totius anni.

composers	Poldowski, Irene ∎
performers	Guz-Seroka, Ewa ∎ , Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział, Anna ∎
Releases Year	2025