Eric Whitacre (1970-)
Glow
Five Hebrew Love Songs
She Weeps Over Rahoon
The City and The Sea
The Sea Lullaby
Little Birds

Klaudia Rabiega (1991-)
For What As Easy
The Bells-A Collaboration

Monika Platcha, piano
Katarzyna Lukawska, cor anglais
Pawel Wajrak, violon
Tomasz Sobaniec, percussion
Zofia Koziol, voix
Adam Radnicki, voix
The Mixed Choir of Wawel Cathedral
Andrzej Korzeniowski, direction

THE CITY AND THE SEA project is a bridge connecting artists from two corners of the world – a valued American choirmaster and composer, originator of the idea of a virtual choir, Eric Whitacre, and a young Cracow composer – Klaudia Rabiega. The presented works were mostly composed to texts by well-known Anglo-Saxon poets. The compositions fit into the genre of vocal and instrumental chamber music in which the choir is equivalent to the other instruments with the piano keeping the whole together. Klaudia Rabiega knows how to compose choral music; she is perfectly at ease in the polyphonic vocal texture, and her musical language evolves in search of a balance between modern and creative style and simple language accessible to listeners. The project, which includes world premiere recordings, was implemented by excellent musicians associated with the Cracow music scene, and the whole was supervised by the charismatic conductor Andrzej Korzeniowski.