Otton Mieczyslaw Zukowski (1867-1942)
Haller's march
My homeland
Polish fleet
Song about a white eagle
Toast I
Polish anthem, op. 40
Toast II
Polish Volunteer's song
Ou land, Polonaise, op. 32
Enough vibrant songs !
To the huts
Near the window
In the forest
Girl, there's a garden of roses between us
On snow
Walkabout
Night falls
Over the grave
March of the Polish Falcons to Bukowina

Aleksander Zukowski (1879-1911)
Polonaise aux Karabelles, op. 20
Mélodie mélancolique, op. 10

Piotr Gryniewicki, ténor
Obrert Kaczorowski, baryton
Ewa Rytel, piano
Tadeusz Hubka, piano
Chœur de l'Académie Universitaire de Rzeszow
Katarzyna Sobas, direction
Podkarpacki Chor Meski
Grzegorz Oliwa, direction

Otton Mieczyslaw Zukowski spent most of his life in Czerniowce, where he acquired general and musical education. After studies in Lwów and in Vienna, he became a ‘suplent’ in the state-run teachers college in Czerniowce. Between 1906 and 1911 he was a Polish teacher: initially in the teachers college, and later in a state-run secondary school. His works, vocal as well as instrumental, in addition to quite numerous transcriptions of his own and other composers’ songs for different scorings, had as their source Zukowski’s strong convictions which could be expressed in the two following words: patriotism and faith. Therefore Otton Mieczyslaw sacrificed his artistic achievements on the altar of the fight for free and independent Poland, for the place of Polish in the public life, for the historical awareness of the Poles and for the respect for the beliefs of the fathers and the Catholic faith...