Stanisław Moniuszko - Polish Requiem in D minor (1856): Kyrie - Graduale - Offertorium

Stanisław Moniuszko - Polish Requiem Mass in D minor (1856): Kyrie - Graduale - Offertorium. Performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Henryk Wojnarowski. Recorded 2009 in the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hal, Warsaw, Poland. With Marta Boberska (alto), Jarosław Bręk (tenor), Andrzej Białko (organ). Record label: Dux. This video of classical music is solely for personal educational purposes. No copyright infringement intended. Videos are always incidental extracts from published works. If you like the music, please consider supporting the artist and the label by buying the music. Discover more lesser known classical gems at ‪@gorgeousclassicalunknown‬ . From Wikipedia: Stanisław Moniuszko (May 5, 1819 – June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (mainly Poles, Lithuanians and Belarusians). He is generally referred to as "the father of Polish national opera". Since the 1990s Stanisław Moniuszko is being recognized in Belarus as an important figure to Belarusian culture as well. Moniuszko composed more than 300 individual songs, primarily to texts of Polish poets, and around two dozen operas. His series of twelve song books is notable and contains songs to the words of Adam Mickiewicz, Antoni Edward Odyniec, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Stefan Witwicki, Antoni Malczewski, and Wincenty Pol. Moniuszko noted that his songs, which were published under the collective title Śpiewnik Domowy (Domestic Songs), had a national character. Their 'Polishness' is found in his use of and reference to traditional Polish dance rhythms like Polonaise, Mazurka, Kujawiak, and Krakowiak and the propagation of texts written by Polish national poets. The songs were often performed by the 19th-century Polish choirs in Austria, Germany, and Russia, and became a point of reference for other Polish composers. Moniuszko's opera style bears similarities to that of Daniel Auber and Gioachino Rossini, but with stronger emphasis on chorus and melodies inspired by Polish dances. Lithuanians stress, that Stanisław Moniuszko was eagerly using Lithuanian motifs – e.g. his cantatas "Milda", "Nijolė", based on Lithuanian mythology, were issued in Vilnius.