Ad Fontes Chant Grégorien Et Œuvres Vocales Sacrées Kaczorowski Mikolon Szadejko

Through this album, I would like to invite you to take a fascinating trip ‘Ad fontes’, meaning back to the source. These are songs, whose roots reach deep into old-testament Jewish temple practice. Borrowed by the Christians, these songs were the beginning of what we today call Gregorian chants. It is a single voice song, in Latin, performed a cappella, constructed around the modal scales. Pope John Paul II in his Letter to the artists from 1999 mentioned, that ‘the Gregorian chant, with its inspired modulations, was to become through the centuries, the music of the Church’s faith in the liturgical celebration of the sacred mysteries. The beautiful was thus wedded to the true, so that through art, souls too might be lifted up from the world of the senses to the divine’. The following album is a tentative attempt at presenting Gregorian chants and their inspirations, which can be found in the music of Antonín Dvorák – representing the Czech Republic, Stanislaw Moniuszko, and Bernadetta Matuszczak – a contemporary Polish composer...