DIE SONETTE AN ORPHEUS
(SONNETS TO ORPHEUS)1980-81
14
’- 16’
for middle voice and chamber orchestra
dedicated to the memory of Juliusz Ptaszyński, the composer’s father
text by Rainer Maria Rilke, German text
Mezzosoprano solo, 1111-2100-Perc.(2)-Ar-Strings
PWM/CBN, Theodore Presser, score and parts for rent
2.4.1989, Poznań, Poznańska Wiosna Muzyczna/Contemporary Polish Music Festival, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eugenia Rezler, mezzo,
M. Nowakowski, conductor
13’
for men’s choir and orchestra
Latin text
0000-4331-Perc.(6)- Strings- Organ (opt)
PWM/CBN score and parts for rent
18.4.1988, Cracow, The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Szymon Kawalla, conductor
46’
for soprano, tenor, baritone, mixed choir, and orchestra
text by Leslie Woolf Hedley, "Chant For All The People On Earth"
English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish texts
2222-2221-Perc.(2)- Strings- SATB – 3 soli (sopran, tenor, baritone)
PWM 9392 (1994) study score
PWM/CBN conductor’s score and parts for rent
22.4.1993, Warsaw, Poland, Studio S-1 of Polish Radio, the Cracow Radio
Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Zofia Kilanowicz, soprano, Jacek Laszczkowski, tenor, Robert Gierlach, baritone, Jose Maria Floerncio Junior, conductor
Extended symphonic version with additional text of Lord Yehudi Menuhin:
16.8.1993, Flensburg, Germany, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Sinfonia Varsovia, Choir of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, Zofia Kilanowicz, soprano, Zdisław Kordjalik, tenor, Robert Gierlach, baritone, Ryszard Zimak, choir director, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, conductor
8’
for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble
text by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, "Bajka o Słowikach"
Polish text, available also in English translation
Baritone, 1111-0000-vib.mba – ar.
score & parts for rent from composer
24’
for women’s choir, flute, harp, piano and percussion
commissioned by the Dorians Choir of the University of California
in Santa Barbara
text by ancient Greek women poets
English text
PWM/CBN score and parts for rent
8.5.1977, Santa Barbara, CA. Dorians Choir, Phobe Houk, flute,
Carolyn Horn, piano, Barbara Imhoff, harp, Marta Ptaszyńska, percussion, Michael Ingham, conductor
10’
for woman’s voice, flute and harp
text by Paul Verlaine, "Un grand sommeil noir"
French and English texts
PWM 522/79 (1979 ) (second edition 1992) , score
22.6.1979, Pontino, Italy, XV Festival de Musica Contemporanea,
Olga Szwajgier, voice
7’
for 4 men’s voices, brass, percussion, and organ
commissioned by the Stanisław Moniuszko Musical Society of Boston
Latin text
0000-2221-Perc.(4) –org – 4 soli: tenor, 2 baritones, bass
PWM/CBN score and parts for rent
10.X.1982, Boston Cathedral, Special Mass celebrating 600th anniversary of Black Madonna of Czętochowa and beatification of Father Maksymilian Kolbe by Pope John Paul II; The New England Conservatory New Music Ensemble
40’
Cantata dedicated to Polonia in commemoration of Poland’s Independence
texts by S.T. Coleridge, A. Barbier, J.N. Kamiński, R. Suchodolski,
J. Bajza, F. Kerenyi, J. Kasprowicz, K.J. Snoilsky, A. Oppman,
J. Ptaszyński, S. Wyspiański, M. Konopnicka
Polish text
1010-1000-Perc.(1)- string quartet.- 3 soli:S MS Bar.- SATB
PWM/CBN score and parts for rent
15.7.1989, Warsaw Royal Castle, Warsaw Academy of Music Chamber Choir and Instrumental Ensemble, Varsovia String Quartet, soloists: J. Gadulanka,
E. Werka, M. Witkiewicz and Ryszard Zimak, conductor.
28’
for mezzosoprano and piano
commissioned by Jerzy Marchwiński for Ewa Podleś
dedicated to Ewa Podleś and Jerzy Marchwiński
poems by R. M. Rilke, P. Verlaine, L. Staff, W. Shakespeare, F. G. Lorca
original languages: German, French, Polish, English and Spanish
score from the composer
3.10.1989, Warsaw, Warsaw Philharmonic, Ewa Podleś
and Jerzy Marchwiński
40’
commissioned by the Lira Singers of Chicago
text by Leslie Woolf Hedley, "Chant for All the People on Earth"
English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish text
S T Bar soli, SATB, Perc.(2)- Pf.
PWM/ CBN, Theodore Presser, score and parts for rent
5.4.1992, Glencoe, Illinois, Lira Singers, Lucy J. Ding, conductor
17’
for mezzo-soprano, piano and percussion
poems by Modene Duffy
English text
score and parts from the composer
25.11.1996, Huddersfield, England, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Patricia Adkins Chiti,mezzo, Ian Buckle, piano, and M. Ptaszyńska, percussion
20’
for mezzo-soprano and string quartet
commissioned by the Kościuszko Foundation for
the 70th anniversary of the Foundation
poetry by Leslie Woolf Hedley, Donald Bogen, Krzysztof Koehler,
Stanislaw Wyspiański and Lord Tennyson
English text
10.12.1995, New York, the Kościuszko Foundation, Halcyon String Quartet, Mary Henderson-Stuckey, mezzosoprano
10’
for choir and organ
commissioned by the Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago
text by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
STAB- organ
PWM score & parts
9.6.2008, Chicago, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago Singers, Thomas Weisflog, organ, James Kallembach, conductor