Otton Mieczyslaw Zukowski (1867-1942)
Narodzil sie Jezus Chrystus (Jesus Christ has been born)
O gwiazdo Betleemska (O the star of Bethlehem)
Pan z nieba i z lona (Lord from heaven and from the womb)
Pasterze mili (My dear shepherds)
Pastuszkowie ze snu (Shepherds have awakened)
Pasterzu (Hey shepherd)
Pójdzmy wszyscy (Come together)
Pospieszcie pastuszki (Hasten shepherd boys)
Przybiezeli do Betlejem (They have come to Bethlehem)
Przy onej górze (By that mountain)
Slysze z nieba muzyke (I hear music from heaven)
Sliczna Panienka (Beauteous Maiden)
Tryumfy króla (King’s triumphs)
W dzien Bozego narodzenia (On the day God was born)
Wesola nowine (Glad tidings)
Witajze dzieciatko (Welcome little baby)
Wiwat dzisiaj (Long live today)
Wsród nocnej ciszy (In the silence of the night)
W zlobie lezy (Lying in the manger)
Z narodzenia Pana (Lord has been born)
Zjawilo sie nam (We were shown)

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.