A Polish Requiem

Album by Krzysztof Penderecki & Izabela Kłosińska & Jadwiga Rappé & Ryszard Minkiewicz & Piotr Nowacki & Chór Filharmonii Narodowej & Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Narodowej & Antoni Wit

A Polish Requiem is a large-scale sacred work for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra by Krzysztof Penderecki, composed between 1980 and 1984 and subsequently expanded in 1993 and 2005, which sets the Latin Requiem text and commemorates Polish historical traumas and figures, including the Warsaw Uprising, the Katyn massacre and the Solidarity movement. It belongs to contemporary classical and liturgical genres.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Polish Requiem: Introitus
    4:08
  2. 2.
    Polish Requiem: Kyrie
    4:16
  3. 3.
    Polish Requiem: Dies Irae
    1:33
  4. 4.
    Polish Requiem: Tuba mirum
    1:58
  5. 5.
    Polish Requiem: Mora stupebit
    6:30
  6. 6.
    Polish Requiem: Quid sum miser
    4:46
  7. 7.
    Polish Requiem: Rex tremendae
    2:17
  8. 8.
    Polish Requiem: Recordare Jesu pie
    11:24
  9. 9.
    Polish Requiem: Ingemisco tanquam reus
    12:07
  10. 10.
    Polish Requiem: Lacrimosa
    4:38

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Polish Requiem: Sanctus
    13:42
  2. 3.
    Polish Requiem: Agnus Dei
    7:34
  3. 4.
    Polish Requiem: Lux aeterna
    4:42
  4. 5.
    Polish Requiem: Libera me, Domine
    9:43
  5. 6.
    Polish Requiem: Święty Boże
    6:33
  6. 7.
    Polish Requiem: Libera animas
    3:26

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