"There were two principal centres that inspired Polish national culture in the second half of the 18th c., namely the Church, and the Royal as well as aristocratic courts. (...) As for music, which was a must, for both, the third principal environment was, until 1800, the Church (...) Those small, twelve-people strong church ensembles played at all liturgical and paraliturgical devotions, performing Masses, Vespers, Litanies, as well as chamber and symphonies. At the Gostyń Oratorian sanctuary at that time 'the liturgy starts at 7.00 a.m., High Mass is preceeded by symphonies (...) the midnight procession is accompanied by symphonies'(...) Among the preserved manuscripts there is a large number of anonymous symphonies.(...)"
[Iwona Januszkiewicz-Rębowska in the booklet](anonymous): Symphonia de Nativitate (ca. 1760-1770)
Jan Wański (ca.1760-post.1821): Symphony in D major
(anonymous arr. by Jerzy Dobrzański): Concerto in B minor for viola d'amore (ca. 1750) *
Wojciech Dankowski (ca. 1760-post. 1836): Symphony in E flat major
Artur Paciorkiewicz - viola *
Warsaw Chamber Opera Orchestra
Mieczyław Nowakowaski - conductor
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