Songs, let’s call them social, of various character: feast, love, political, religious; both court canzonas and folk ballads, knightly ballads, beggars’ wailing, psalms and some polyphonic pieces that can be sung at the table or by leading a mazurka or a polonaise, and also useful notations of simple dances. That is a diverse world of more or less popular songs and melodies. One can risk the statement that almost everything that belongs to this repertoire is of a low flight, especially when it comes to the music side. These popular and serious songs were created both under the influence of ‘low’ western music, especially Italian, but also French and German, as well as deriving from the world of melody and local customs, which today we would call ‘folk’…
Gaetano Gastoldi „L'Inamorato” A laeta vita po polsku from Pieśni i tańce zabawam uczciwym gwoli, 1614
Idzie żołnierz according to the coillection of Zygmunta Andrzejowskiego
Adam Czahrowski Duma ukrainna from Treny i rzeczy rozmaite, Poznań, 1597
Pieśń o kole rycerskim according to manuscript dated circa 1584 r.
Joachim Bielski Pieśń nowa o szczęśliwey potrzebie pod Byczyną z Arcyxiążęciem Maximiljanem
ks. Stanisław Grochowski Pieśń VI from Pieśni Kalliopy Słowieńskiej na teraźniejsze pod Byczyną zwycięstwo. Temuż [Hetmanowi koronnemu, Janowi Zamoyskiemu]
Przy dumie po dumie okrzyk mazowiecki (Przydumek panom Francuzom)
Pieśń dziadowska o wzięciu Kamieńca Podolskiego according to the collection of Oskar Kolberg
Hiacynt Przetocki Najadszy się, to spać abo w pole na upatrzonego according to the collection Postny obiad abo zabaweczka, Kraków 1653
Sarabanda according to the collection Przyjmę więzienie, 1st half of the 17th century
Śmiertelne gwiazdy according to a manuscript from the 18th century
Mikołaj Sęp-Szarzyński Do Kasie, before 1581
Zegar bije
Pieśń do św. Józefa,
Spór djabła z aniołem o duszę grzesznika
Dominik Rudnicki Hup stary (Dance of Death)
Pieśń żołnierska o Najświętszej Marii Pannie sung by the Bar Confederates 1768–1772
The project is part of Poland's Regaining of Independence Centenary celebrations.
Klub Świętego Ludwika:
Jacek Kowalski – voice, citole
Agnieszka Obst-Chwała – fiddle
Paweł Iwaszkiewicz – bagpipes, flutes, shawms
Julia Karpeta – viola da gamba
Henryk Kasperczak – lute
Jacek Muzioł – percussion