Presented as a luxury box set, the collection contains not only 36 CDs of Polish music, but is accompanied by detailed programme notes in the form of score-sized booklets in a premium drawer section contained within the main box. Endorsed by the National Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda to mark the Centenary of Regaining Independence, the project was financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the Multi-Annual Programme “Niepodlegla” 2017-2022.

The recordings are performed by a ‘who’s who’ of Polish musicians, including the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra and the Polish National Opera amongst a plethora of others. Each CD represents a decade of music relevant to the era, so the resulting 36-CD box is a wonderful exploration of Polish music. Composers include Szymanowski, Sikorski, Rogowski, Tansman, Morawski, Wiechowicz, Kondracki and Laks, the music represented is within all styles - ballet, opera, orchestral and chamber works. The last disc ends with, as you’d expect, Krzysztof Penderecki’s Fanfare for the Independent Poland.

Contents:

CD 1
Ludomir Rogowski - Fantasmagories

CD 2
Aleksander Tansman - 7 Preludes
Eugeniusz Morawski - Switezianka, Ballet in 2 Acts
Apolinary Szeluto - Sir Thaddeus, Symphonic Suite in 5 Parts, op. 17

CD 3
Karol Szymanowski - King Roger, Opera in 3 Acts, op.46

CD 4
Aleksander Tansman - Piano Concerto no.1
Karol Szymanowski - Stabat Mater, op.53
Stanislaw Wiechowicz - The Hop. Nuptial Dance for Symphony Orchestra

CD 5
Roman Maciejewski - Kurpian Songs
Tadeusz Szeligowski - Kaziuki
Michal Kondracki - A Little Highland Symphony “Pictures On Glass”, op.8

CD 6
Karol Szymanowski - Harnasie, Ballet-pantomime in 1 Act, op.55
Jozef Koffler - Piano Concerto, op.13

CD 7
Feliks Nowowiejski - Organ Symphony no.9 in F minor, op.45
Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski - Wedding in Upper Silesia

CD 8
Szymon Laks - Polish Suite
Antoni Szalowski - Overture
Ludomir Rozycki - Apollo And The Maiden, Ballet in 6 Tableaux

CD 9
Jan Adam Maklakiewicz  Cagliostro in Warsaw, Ballet in 3 Tableaux
Roman Padlewski - Stabat Mater
Wladyslaw Szpilman - Concertino for Piano and Orchestra

CD 10
Michal Spisak - Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra
Andrzej Panufnik - Tragic Overture
Karol Rathaus - Polonaise Symphonique, op.52
Konstanty Regamey - Quintet for Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Cello and Piano

CD 11
Boleslaw Woytowicz - Symphony no.2 “Warsaw”
Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern - Concertino for Oboe & String Orchestra
Zygmunt Mycielski - Lamento di Tristano

CD 12
Zbigniew Turski - Symphony no.2 “Olympic”
Stefan Kisielewski - Concerto for Chamber Orchestra

CD 13
Artur Malawski - The Peaks, Ballet-pantomime in 5 Parts
Tadeusz Baird - Colas Breugnon

CD 14
Roman Palester - Symphony no.4
Grazyna Bacewicz - Symphony no.4

CD 15
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - Recitativo ed Aria, Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra
Piotr Perkowski - Nocturne
Kazimierz Serocki - Sinfonietta for Two String Orchestras
Tadeusz Machl - Organ Concerto no.4

CD 16
Witold Lutoslawsi - Funeral Music
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Study on One Cymbal Stroke
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Grazyna Bacewicz - Pensieri Notturni
Boleslaw Szabelski - Aphorisms “9”
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki - Three Pieces in Old Style
Bogalsaw Schaeffer - Symphony. Electronic Music for Tape

CD 17
Krzysztof Penderecki - St Luke Passion

CD 18
Tadeusz Baird - Tomorrow, Music Drama in 1 Act
Eugeniusz Rudnik - Dixi

CD 19
Witold Lutoslawski - Livre pour Orchestre 1969
Zygmunt Krauze - Piece for Orchestra no.1
Andrzej Dobrowolski - Amar. Music for Orchestra no.2
Kazimierz Serocki - Fantasmagoria
Zbigniew Penherski - Incantationi I

CD 20
Juliusz Luciuk - The Love of Orpheus, Opera-ballet in 2 Parts
Barbara Buczek - Anekumena, Concerto for 89 Instruments
Andrzej Krzanowski - Programme IV

CD 21
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki - Symphony no.3 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”, op.36
Romuald Twardowski - Sequentiae de SS. Patronis Polonis

CD 22
Eugeniusz Knapik - Corale, Interludio e Aria
Augustyn Bloch - Anenaiki
Tomasz Sikorski - Strings in the Earth
Andrzej Panufnik - Sinfonia Votiva

CD 23
Bronislaw Kazimierz Przybylski - Program “S”. Hommage Karol Szymanowski
Witold Lutoslawski - Symphony no.3
Jozef Swider - Canon

CD 24
Marta Ptaszynska - Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra
Wojciech Kilar - Orawa
Witold Szalonek - Inside? - Outside?

CD 25
Tadeusz Wielecki - Numerous Branches of Ramified Plaits
Aleksander Lason - Cathedral
Pawel Szymanski - Quasi una Sinfonietta

CD 26
Grazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil - Le Soleil, Concerto for Percussion Instruments and Orchestra
Mieczyslaw Wajnberg - Chamber Symphony no.4

CD 27
Stanislaw Krupowicz - Fin de siecle
Zbigniew Bargielski - Trigonalia
Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar - String Quartet no.3

CD 28
Krzysztof Meyer - Mass, op.68
Rafal Ugustyn - Miroirs

CD 29
Marek Stachowski - Sinfonietta
Pawel Lukaszewski - Antiphons

CD 30
Elzbieta Sikora - Piano Concerto no.1 “Hommage a Frederic Chopin”
Zbigniew Bujarski - String Quartet “For Autumn”
Andrzej Koszewski - Unitis Viribus
Cezary Duchnowski - Monad 3

CD 31
Krzysztof Knittel - St Matthew Passion

CD 32
Krzysztof Penderecki - Symphony no.8 “Songs Of Transience”
Jerzy Kornowicz - Dawning Light IV “Melos-Ethos”
Lidia Zielinska - Conrad’s Seven Islands

CD 33
Pawel Mykietyn - St Mark Passion Part I

CD 34
Pawel Mykietyn - St Mark Passion Part II
Dariusz Przybylski - Oneiros, Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, op.47

CD 35
Agata Zubel - Not I
Jagoda Szmytka - Electrified Memories of Bloody Cherries
Marcel Chyrzynski - Ukiyo-e
Andrzej Kwiecinski - Canzon de’ baci
Dobromila Jaskot - Slejpnir

CD 36
Aleksander Nowak - Naninana
Marcin Stanczyk - Some Drops
Hanna Kulenty-Majoor - Concerto Rosso
Krzysztof Penderecki - Fanfare for the Independent Poland