Otton Mieczyslaw Zukowski (1867-1942)
Aniol pasterzom (Angel said to the shepherds)
Ach witajze pozadana (Hail, the favoured one)
A cóz z ta dziecina (What has happened to the baby)
Anielski chór (Angelic choir)
A wczora z wieczora (Last night)
Ach ubogi w zlobie (Ah so poor in the manger)
Bóg sie rodzi (God is born)
Cieszmy sie i pod niebiosy (Let us all be merry)
Bracia patrzcie jeno (Hey look brothers)
Dzisiaj w Betlejem (Today in Bethlehem)
Gdy sie Chrystus rodzi (When Christ is born)
Hej bracia czy spicie (Hey brothers, are you asleep)
Hej w dzien narodzenia (Hey on the birthday)
Jakaz to gwiazda (What kind of star)
Jezus malusienki (Tiny Jesus)
Jezusa narodzonego (Jesus was born)
Król wiecznej chwaly (King of everlasting glory)
Lulajze Jezuniu (Hush little Jesus)
Medrcy swiata (The Wise Men)
Mesyasz przyszedl (Messiah has come)
Na kopie siana (On the haystack)

Marta Wroblewska, soprano
Pawel Pecuszok, ténor
Mikolaj Zgodka, ténor
Robert Kaczorowski, baryton
Przemyslaw Kummer, basse-baryton
Urszula Izbicka, piano

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.