Koledy |  | Artists: Mazowsze, Slask
Label: Polskie Nagrania
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.99
as of 9/9/2010 14:54 MDT details
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 544520
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
UPC: 667340559720
EAN: 0667340559720
Release Date: February 11, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Tracks: The God Is Born , In the Night's Stillness, They Hastened to Bethlehem,
4.Baby Jesus, 5.Hush, Little Jesus, Since Our Lord was Born, Today in Bethlehem, The Angel said unto the Shepherds, When Christ is Born, Wise Men of the World, When the Lovely Virgin Mary, O, Look Brethren, Silent Night, Let' s All Go to the Stable, Meek and Mild, The Star of Bethlehem, Lying in the Crib.
About: Polish Christmas carols are almost all anonymous, having been composed by the people. Their origins date from the fourteen century, many from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Polish carol has an essentially folk song character, which makes it specifically national. The melodies are characteristically Polish - gay, tender, even humorous - typical of the Polish peasant or mountaineer. There is a native unconscious poetry about all of them. The Infant Jesus, poor and homeless, born in a stable surrounded by the familiar domestic animals, appeals to the heart and the imagination of all peoples.
Polish Christmas carols may be divided into three kinds - religious, legendary, and imaginative. The religious, among the most beautiful and profound in feeling of all Polish hymns, owe their origin to monks in cloisters. The legendary, based on the books of the Apocrypha, contain many legends and details for which strict historical truth cannot be assumed. Hence the Church did not accept them, but they appealed to the people who loved to sing of the many wonders, the adoring shepherds and the speaking animals. The third, or imaginative, owe their origin to people of humble birth, who in relating the story of the Nativity used familiar surroundings taken from their own homes. Thus Bethlehem became a Polish village and Jesus was born in Poland. These carols often contain merry dance rhythms like the Krakowiak and the Mazurka and are called "Shepherd's Carols". (by Cecily Kowalewska Helgesen from Treasured Polish Songs)
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Music Holds Deep Polish Roots October 16, 2003
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a traditional Polish Carols Christmas CD, this is the one for you. Sung in Polish by the Polish Song and Dance Ensemble, the music of this CD offers its listener the beauty and the ambience of the season in a choir setting.
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