Les Chants réjouissant le cœur (Heart Brightening Songs)

Year:

1973

Duration:

12’

Instrumentation:

soprano and  5 instr. /fl. ob, cl, vn, vc/ (1983 version: soprano, flute and harpsichord)

Description:

Les Chants réjouissant le cœur (Heart Brightening Songs)
for soprano and 5 instruments
Early Egyptian text adapted by E. Sikora

World Premiere: 18.10.1976
Warsaw
Monographic concert “Music Vernisage”
Warsaw Music Society
Henryka Januszewska, soprano
National Philharmonic Instrumental Ensemble
Jerzy Witkowski, conductor

New version 1983
for soprano, flute and harpsichord

Performed at the Youth Circle concert organised by the Polish Composer’s Union at the Academy of Music as a “fringe event” attached to the “Warsaw Autumn” Festival (1988).

Publisher: MAN