Anna Szostak, The Katowice City Singers Camerata Silesia - Tearfully

Tears, this visible attribute of sadness, paradoxically, can be a form of catharsis, a dam against despair. The sadness caused by an individual or collective experience of evil, transformed into the Christian hope for a change of fate, sometimes triggers a creative thought; it allows this experience of sadness to be transformed into the form of an artistic message. While composing Stabat Mater for a cappella choir in 1939, could RomanPadlewski foresee that by dedicating this work to his mother he would draw her personal path of sorrow? The Psalms of the Future and Planctus � works by Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa recorded on this album � had their world premieres with the participation of the excellent Singers� Group of the City of Katowice Camerata Silesia under the direction of its creator, director, and conductor � Anna Szostak. The spirit of the theatre, the stage song, and the actor�s dialogue circulates through this music evoking Polish fears and hopes (probably permanently inscribed into our history) in an extremely suggestiveway thanks to the poet�s words.