This album presents the world-premiere recording of one section of Andrzej Zarycki's 80th birthday concert featuring theatre and film music by the composer..

The event took place on 12 December 2021 at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre. During that evening, compositions written for theatre and film could be heard, from Green Goose and Macbeth to Provincial Actors and Hanka. Creator of great songs interpreted by Ewa Demarczyk and Zbigniew Wodecki, co-creator of the success of the Cellar under the Rams but also composer of symphonic, oratorio, theatre and film music, celebrated his 80th birthday in Kraków. This extraordinary concert was performed by soloists (Adrianna Bujak-Cyran, Beata Czernecka, Magdalena Drozd, Piotr Kutnik, Beata Paluch, Tadeusz Kwinta, Julia Zarycka, Wiktoria Zawistowska, Jakub Zuckerman) and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra conducted by Rafał Jacek Delekta.

The concert and the album are an initiative of the Kraków Cultural Forum, which documents music created for Polish stages and film productions under the project 'The Musical Trace of Kraków'.