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Work on preparing this album began in 2019, when I first encountered Mykola Dyletsky’s music – we performed fragments of his Requiem Liturgy with Wrocław Baroque Ensemble in Kyiv. At that time, they made a great impression on me, which, along with my subsequent work as a conductor on this artist’s works and subsequent concerts, strengthened my feeling that I was dealing with a unique repertoire. Dyletsky’s work is a fascinating encounter between the East and the West – the language, liturgy and melody of the Eastern Church harmonise with Western compositional techniques and musical styles. There are clear inspirations from the Venetian polychoral style and stile concertato, and tutti sections are often intertwined with figurative fragments in a solo ensemble. You can also see elements of musical rhetoric (...)
Both liturgical pieces presented on the album were written for two fourpart vocal ensembles. In my opinion, the way they are performed should be similar to the way we perform religious polychoral music of that period,
created for the Catholic Church in the Western Latin rite. I have a strong impression that if the a cappella texture present in these works were supplemented with instruments typical of European music from the first half
of the seventeenth century (e.g. cornets and trombones), i.e. instruments used, among others, by Claudio Monteverdi or Bartłomiej Pękiel and Mikołaj Zieleński, then it would transpire how close Dyletsky’s music was
to what was happening in Western Europe at that time. (...)
This project was an opportunity for me to come into contact with music that was created in the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but at the same time lies at the source of Ukrainian polyphonic music.
A great discovery was the fact that one of the ways through which polyphony entered the field of Orthodox Church music was Dyletsky’s work – his relations with Polish artists and his knowledge of the Italian style.
Interestingly, this process was one of the reasons why Orthodox music did not return to full monody, such as in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Therefore, we have evidence that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
in Dyletsky’s times was a space of unrestricted exchange of artistic ideas and their mutual interpenetration, and that the foundations of European integration in the field of culture were laid there.
I would like to thank the artists and all the people who participated in the preparation of this album. In addition, I would like to express my special gratitude for all help and substantive support to Dr Irina Gerasimova (Bazylowa), Prof. Aleksander Naumow, Dr Łukasz Hajduczenia, as well as Ludmila Kapustina and Volodymyr Andrushchak.

Andrzej Kosendiak (tranls. Anna Marks)

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Arrangement: Janusz K. Korczak

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Conductor: Anna Szostak

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"Da Mihi Bibere" Lent in ancient texts and polish songs

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Janusz Krzysztof Korczak (born in Kraków) is a Polish composer and organist, a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in Composition in the class of Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz (2015-2019, the Academy of Music in Kraków) and Church Music in the organ class of dr hab. S. Susi Ferfoglia (2013-2017, the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow). Currently, he is a student of Electroacoustic Music Composition in the class of dr hab. Magdalena Długosz (Master’s studies). His interests focus on searching for new forms of musical expression in the spirit of respect for the phenomenon of sound, treated as an essential component and a target point of all creative processes. He derives his inspirations mainly from the domains which are not connected with music directly (e.g. Christian theology, physics, psychology, biology), and which are often the original cause of his exploration of the shades of tone colours. He was awarded by numerous prizes in both international and Polish national composition competitions. His originals were performed in Poland and in Germany. He cooperated with various music groups, such as Trinity College Choir of Cambridge, Kammerchor Consono, Camerata Silesia, the Wroclaw Opera Choir, Insieme, Trans-for-Matha Ensemble and others. He has benefitted from the compositional consultations of Mark Andre, Ivan Fedele, Justė Janulytė, François Sarhan, Zaid Jabri, Zygmunt Krauze, Wojciech Widłak, Dariusz Przybylski, Maciej Jabłoński and others. Since 2018, Janusz Krzysztof Korczak is cooperating with Schott Music (two published scores). Since 2020 he is a member of the International Society for Contemporary Music (Polish Section), also he is a member of the Church Music Commission (Archdiocese of Krakow) and Association of Polish Church Musicians.

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