“Jazz blossoms with deep roots” is how the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper summarised a concert appearance of Natalia Mateo. The title of her second album "De Profundis", Latin for "out of the depths", sets the tone: subtle, knowing songs mark out paths that are Mateo's and hers alone. Thoughtful, original compositions and highly personal interpretations of covers reflect her story set against a backdrop of East and West, a life punctuated by changes of surroundings, by departures which lead to fresh beginnings.

An orchestral debut, one of numerous song cycles and finally a short yet massive vocalinstrumental work. Years spanning their dates of inception: twelve. Significantly greater span - between the dates of their premieres, interspersed by greater and lesser historical events, most notably the First World War and both Russian revolutions, along with a series of personal trials and reappraisals of the artist's spirituality, as well as bad luck and unfavourable circumstances. What - apart from the author - links these works? Seemingly very little, yet certain common threads can be found.

The 16th-century composer, Cypriana Bazylik, was born in Sieradz, an important commercial and cultural center at that time. He composed only for a short period of his life, when he was employed in the court band of Prince Mikołaj Radziwiłł in Vilnius. Several of his songs and several psalms have survived and are included on this CD. The music, masterfully presented by the Ensemble Jericho vocal group, is largely an original adaptation of the musicologist and organist Bartosz Izbicki - voices, new harmonies, and sometimes changed rhythmic formulas have been added.

Bassist Wojtek Stanisz debuts his own material Szuflandia, which consists of nine original themes. Until now, Stanisz has worked as a session musician and teacher m.in. in the musical sheepfold, in Jaworki near Szczawnica.

First shown in January 1984, Mr Kleks' Academy, directed by Krzysztof Gradowski, and its sequels have gained the status of cult films for many people who grew up in the gloomy 1980s and immediately after the political transformation. (…) The idea of enriching the film with songs significantly influenced the decision to create this motion picture. lts authors wove Jan Brzechwa's famous poems into his novel, creating something like a fairy-tale universe (same of the texts were written by Gradowski). The musical pieces are an integral and key part of the entire trilogy.

The artists will present pulsating songs saturated with the influences of American musicians: Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Donny Hathaway.

What would have happened if Michael Dudikoff had gone missing in action, say – in Poland in 1987 – during the harshest freezing spell of the century?

Late Night Poems is a combination of the formula of an acoustic jazz quartet, drawing on the best traditions of the genre, with lyrics characterized by poetic sensitivity, presented in the formula spoken word - jazz & poetry. For this reason, the album is dominated by the noble sound of the piano, double bass, trumpet and drums, which are served by some of the top musicians on the Polish jazz scene.

Despite all the differences in the musical language of the works by the Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki included on this recording, they are united by their quality as a lament: Szymanowski's Stabat mater, completed in 1926 and based on a Polish translation rather than the original Latin text of the medieval poem, is still considered one of the most important contributions to 20th-century music.

There is good reason that romantic music (because it would be a gross over-simplification to say that this style refers solely to the 19th century) is considered by musicologists to be the style that best embodies the spirit of romanticism, which blossoms with varying intensity throughout the history of European cultural development.

Lutosławski’s twenty carols are not a ‘Top Twenty’ collection; conspicuous by their absence are some of the most popular carols like Wśród nocnej ciszy (In the midst of night’s quiet), Mędrcy świata (Wise men of the world) or Pójdźmy wszyscy do stajenki (Let’s all go to the stable) while little known works are included.

The Viva Polonia! programme by the German-Polish musicians Ania Vegry (soprano), Roman Ohem (violin) and Oskar Jezior (piano) tells the story of the rich history of Poland. Songs and character pieces by nine Polish composers represent the arduous journey of the Polish people – from 1795 when the country vanished from maps until they regained independence in 1918. Spanning from the traditional to the modern, Viva Polonia! paints a musical portrait of Polish culture.

To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872), organist, conductor and composer considered in Poland as the father of Polish opera, we pay tribute to him by inviting you to discover the 1848 version of the opera Halka, in its Vilnius version of 1848, during a concert performed by Capella Cracoviensis, soloists, choir and orchestra on historical instruments conducted by Jan Tomasz Adamus.

A native sensation for John Coltrane's Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album. Tapes from the forgotten session of Andrzej Przybielski with Bartłomiej and Marcin Oleś have been found. That's when new, never-before-published recordings by the creator of modern jazz, John Coltrane, were released, and now, when recordings made in 2003 by the ultra-modern trio Andrzej Przybielski / Marcin Oleś / Bartłomiej Oleś have been found. Today is the premiere of the extraordinary album "Short Farewell: The Lost Session".

The programme of the album "Bajgelman. Get to Tango" intersperses pieces from the interwar period with music from the Łódź Ghetto.