The Musical Poetry Theatre invites you to a multimedia concert:

"Miłosz in Music - Music in Miłosz" -

Jacek Telus sings Czesław Miłosz's poems


Honorary patronage of the project:

MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE AND POLISH RADIO

Patronage of the CD:

STEFAN JANAS LIBRARY IN OPOCZNO


 "Miłosz in Music - Music in Miłosz" concert
/fragments with English translations of poems/ Part 01

01. Concert - read by Czesław Miłosz 1'45
02. The stone - part 1 2'03
03. A song for one string 5'16
04. Waltz 4'12  


 "Miłosz in Music - Music in Miłosz" concert
/fragments with English translations of poems/ Part 02

05. In my homeland 2'47
06. The suburb 3'37
07. A song about porcelain 3'50
08. The Parable of the Poppy Seed 4'13


 "Miłosz in Music - Music in Miłosz" concert
/fragments with English translations of poems/ Part 03
09. The fear 2'35
10. The song 3'32
11. Faith 5'53
12. The earth 5'18


 "Miłosz in Music - Music in Miłosz" concert
/fragments with English translations of poems/ Part 04
13. City without a name 1'53
14. Mercy and understanding 2'46
15. When I got rid of my sorrow 3'35
16. The stone - part 2 1'10  


 "Miłosz in Music - Music in Miłosz" concert
/fragments with English translations of poems/ Part 05
17. Lenten song 2'44
18. Nettle, thistle 3'01
19. So little 3'21
20. Radiant brightness 3'08  


 "Miłosz in Music - Music in Miłosz" concert
/fragments with English translations of poems/ Part 06
21. The sense - read by Czesław Miłosz 1'14
22. The stone - part 3 1'48


Poems: Czesław Miłosz
Music and performance: Jacek Telus
Selection of poems and album concept: Stanisław Balbus
Recording registration: Telus Studios
CD cover and poster design: David Szatarski and Sabin Kluszczyński
Photographs on the website: Sabin Kluszczyński
www.teatrpoezji.jimdofree.com

/.../ So it is with Jacek Telus's setting of over a dozen poems by Czesław Miłosz to music - in terms of both composition and performance. It is a very artistically happy meeting of a subtle and nobly modest musician with the poems of a great poet. Any hypotheses as to "what Miłosz himself would think about it" would be both foolish. and tactless. This is simply my opinion - for whom Miłosz has been the most important poet for half a century, and for whom music has always been as important in life as poetry. And I think so after repeatedly listening to this album (and a couple of its earlier versions). And I wholeheartedly recommend it to all lovers of poetry and music. I will not comment on the individual musical and interpretative merits of the artistic achievement of Jacek Telus. I am not a music critic. I base this recommendation on purely personal aesthetic impressions. These, in turn, make me say quite simply: this is great /.../

 

Stanisław Balbus (Full Professor in the Department of Theory of Literature at the Jagiellonian University)