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The undeniable traits of Felicjan Szopski’s output are the following: folk music and works by Fryderyk Chopin as his sources of inspiration; nurturing national elements while striving to discover new musical means, different musical narratives, and innovative harmonic solutions; attention to every detail of the composition; well-thought-out, consistently implemented ambitious musical thought remaining in a permanent and unbreakable contact with words.

The Best Polish Love Songs… Ever!- is a compilation released by EMI in early 2009. It hypothetically contains the best polish love songs of all the time.

The Best Polish Love Songs… Ever!- is a compilation released by EMI in early 2009. It hypothetically contains the best polish love songs of all the time.

The comprehensive guide to amazing cake decoration—now fully updated
Professional Cake Decorating is a must-have resource for professional and aspiring cake artists, baking and pastry students, and cake decorating hobbyists, drawing on years of experience from master cake designer and IACP Award nominee Toba Garrett. This Second Edition has been completely revamped with gorgeous new photography and a fresh new design. The New Skills have been re-organized into a user-friendly, step-by-step format, and line art and photos throughout the book provide a visual reference for each new technique.

The album is a recording of a fragment of the concert featuring theatre and film music by Andrzej Zarycki on his 80th birthday. The event took place on 12 December 2021 at the ICE Cracow Congress Centre. During that evening, compositions written for theatre and film could be heard, from Green Goose and Macbeth to Provincial Actors and Hanka. Zarycki was the creator of great songs interpreted by Ewa Demarczyk or Zbigniew Wodecki, also the co-creator of the success of the Cellar under the Rams but also a composer of symphonic, oratorio, theatre and film music celebrated his 80th birthday in Cracow. This extraordinary concert was performed by soloists (Adrianna Bujak-Cyran, Beata Czernecka, Magdalena Drozd, Piotr Kutnik, Beata Paluch, Tadeusz Kwinta, Julia Zarycka, Wiktoria Zawistowska, Jakub Zuckerman) and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra conducted by Rafał Jacek Delekta. The concert and the album are an initiative of the Cracow Cultural Forum, which documents music created for Polish stages and film productions under the project ‘The Musical Trace of Cracow’. World recording premiere.

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.