Sappho :: 12 poetic songs for voice and chamber group - Jarek Kordaczuk
Songs: Sappho. Music: Jarek Kordaczuk (Jaroslaw Kordaczuk); Jaroslaw KORDACZUK songs, Sappho, Safo, Sapho, Sappho\'s songs, poems Sappho, an ancient poet, Basia Raduszkiewicz singing, a song cycle, 12 songs from the seventh century BC, a poetic song, song poetry, sung poetry. Pieces for voice (alt or mezzosopran), piano, bass, cello, violin and drums - scores (sheet music)

Sappho 12 songs to the words of the classical poet. Music and text\'s arrangement: Jarek Kordaczuk Vocal: Basia Raduszkiewicz About the project SAPPHO In hindsight, you can see only what is important. Simplicity and beauty of poems fascinate continuosly for thousands of years. They provoke to sing them. As beautiful as you can. Sappho is a cycle of 12 lyric songs written with a view to Basia Raduszkiewicz voice. After "Moved Moments" it was time for an entirely acoustic project. The soloist is accompanied by the instrumental group. The content of songs is based on preserved fragments of Sappho's poems. These fragments were the inspiration for the creation of texts using Sappho's thoughs and giving them new context. The author of this arrangents as well as the music for all works is Jarek Kordaczuk. CD available at 6dB Records.   The Lesbian <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> Lesbian  (Andrzej MichaĹ‚ KempiĹ„ski, the introduction to the second edition of SAPPHO cd) Actually, we do not know exactly her name as it was written on coins and vases as Psapho  (Ψαπφώ or Ψάπφo), Psapha (Ψάπφα), Sapfo (Σαπφώ), Sapho (Σαφφώ) and Sappho (Σαφώ); It is possible that it was not her real name but a pen name meaning "Brightness" or "Lapis lazuli". We know neither the date of her birth nor death. According to the imprecise information it is said that she lived at the turn of the seventh and sixth century BC.  We do not have certainty as  to the place  where she was born because the former authors wrote of Eresos or Mitylene; fortunately both  cities lied on Lesbos so at least we have the justification for  the title of this text. The place of her death is highly embarrasing since Menander (in Strabo), Hesychios, Palajfatos, Plutarch, Ovid, Statius and Suidas  say ? either directly or allusively ? about a suicide jump from Lefkada (?White Rock?) in Sicily . However two anonymous poems from VII volume of Palatine Anthology mentioned about her grave on Lesbos, where  she had rested mourned by her former wards. We know her mother's name Kleis (later the name of Sappho's daughter), and the father was mentioned as Skamandronymosa Eunominosa Eumenos, Kamon, Samos and Simon, although she was raised at her stepfather's house- Ekrytos, Eurygios or Etarchos. Not much is known about her apperance. Damocharis claimed that she was beautiful  Plato held the same opinion as far as he thought about her, not her soul. The scholiast Lukiana wrote clearly: "poorly endowed by nature, small and dark"; the same way she was presented by Ovid. Famous Alcaeus of Mytilene, who not only knew her but even  felt a strong but not requited  affection for her, characterized her in one of his poems as "pure and innocent". On the contrary Amejpsias, Amfis, Antifanes, Difilos, Efippos and Timokles portrayed her as  indecent seducer of her own wards, and for Tatian, the christian heretic, who recognized everything what greek villainy, she was an indecent erotomaniac. It is well known that our lesbian directed education (especially musical and poetic) of girls gathered in a kind of religious association (θίασος) worshipping  Aphrodite, but we do not know why? if she demorelized girls? the aristocracy not ony local  but also those from  Miletus, Colophon and Salamis, willingly gave their daughters under her care. Her husband, Kerkylas  from Andros, is such a shady figure that some even doubt his existence  and her suicide  because of unrequited love to a beautiful Phaon (who was in fact a local deity) is somehow difficult to reconcile with her supposedly avowed homosexuality. Supposedly, because the ancient knew the tradition  of so many Lesbian's relationship with men, that  finally her defenders brought another Sappho of Erosos into the literary existence, a courtesan and a poet contemporary to our heroine (mentioned in Aspasia, Elian and in XV century in Michael Apostolius) and made her responsible for all sexual excesses of  that. And what do we know about the Lesbian for sure? Well, even the great ancients Solon, Pindar, Bacchylides, Theocritus, Theophrastus, Apollonios of Rhodos, Posidippus, Callimachus ,Catullus, Ovid and Horace admired her poetic genius. Plato called her the Tenth Muse, for Strabo  she was a 'miraculous phenomena', and Galen called her a Poet (poet par excellence) just like Homer. All of them were more fortunete than we because they knew all of her work.  And she wrote a lot: Alexandrian philologists had gathered her works in nine volumes, of which we have only remains today as zealous Christians burnt all of her poems in the fourth century. In the medieval times, the latin-speaking West  prefered to remain silent about her, and the greek-speaking, god-fearing Byzantium despised her. <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> The authors of the musical project "Sappho" are certainly aware of all of this.  They even probably know that not so long ago there were attempts to compare our Wanda's suicidal jump to Vistula River, well known from The Chronicleof Poland by Wincenty KadĹ‚ubek and Sappho's desperate jump from Lefkada. However, leaving all aside they they decided to find the hidden sound of Sappho's thrilling poetry in the modern musical form. Poetry as such.   Premiere The recital premiere on  December 2005 in the Old Town Hall in Olsztyn. vocal Basia Raduszkiewicz music Jarek Kordaczuk lyrics (based on Sappho) Jarek Kordaczuk musical direction  Krzysztof Herdzin Krzysztof Herdzin - piano Cezary Konrad - drums Piotr Filipowicz - double-bass Anna ZieliĹ„ska - violin JarosĹ‚aw Thiel -  cello Anna JundziĹ‚Ĺ‚ - flute Jacek Kulig - oboe poster Adam SmoczyĹ„ski   Musicians Musicians taking part in the recordings of SAPPHO (6dB Records, 2006) Basia Raduszkiewicz - vocal Krzysztof Herdzin - piano Cezary Konrad - drums Piotr Filipowicz - double-bass Anna ZieliĹ„ska - violin JarosĹ‚aw Thiel -  cello Anna JundziĹ‚Ĺ‚ - flute Marek Roszkowski - oboe   Similar to God Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) Similar to God Similar to God seems to me this man That sits opposite and carefully with rapture listens to you enchanted When you smiles sweetly my heart in chest Trembles anxiously, frightened While observing you I can't utter a sound out of my larynx I can't find my tongue, the words fade away Tardy flame pierces my body, The eyes lose their light, Once again piercing hum will catch my ear Bathed in sweat,trembled, frightened More green than the green grass I feel that in a moment I will lose my life, I will faint violently I must grin and bear it all The moon has descended Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) The moon has descended The Moon has already descended Pleiades' midnight passes, Time passes, And I'm lonely in my bed Time passes and nobody stops Only the midnight's frail arms wrap me around She is only for me I am only for her Like a sweet shiny red apple On a very top of a tree That noone noticed They forgot No, they just couldn't reach it by the dusky night Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) By the dusky night By the dusky night you come as a dream, as a sweet God and all the worries are gone for real although I am exhausted, the hope tells me that I will survive, I require nothing from the deadmen Oh my soul Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) Oh my soul Oh my soul, don't speak anymore, You'll scare away Adonis's face, one goddess' worries Do not demand more tunes. My lips captivated by desire, Shameful in this world Aphrodite is playing with my heart, Enchantingly coating my lips with nectar I am losing my mind I have a daughter Safona (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) I have adaughter I have a daughter like a golden flower I have a daughter, her name is Kleis I won't give my beloved Not for any beautiful land I have a daughter like a golden flower I have a daughter, her name is Kleis In her beauty all my care In her fragility all my love I hide her at home, because her body is burning Unknown lust for love I lock her at home, because I know it's too early She wants to know the sweetness of love That to destruction leads I lull my daughter tormented by a sweet passion desire I chase the lusty dreams away I snatch her from the lovers' arms He to destruction leads How much time had passed Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) How much time had passed How much time had passed since I met you? Then you seemed to me a little innocent girl I was dressed in a long dress, a beautiful gift And you were charmed by a girl, That wasn't able to pull her dress up the ankle How much time had passed since I saw you? When you were a little innocent girl You treated me harshly And they were mocking me And you were boasting about gaining love for the second time So much time had gone since, I met you? Since an innocent girl grabbed my soul (a liver) You will die and be forgotten no rose will adore you you will roam pale among the cold-eyed deadmen's herd And I want you Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) And I want you And I want you And I am fading in my desire And know my hands won't touch the sky I covered myself with a delicate sheet A somber dream had taken possession of eyes Oh Sappho Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) Oh Sappho Oh Sappho! Or I will stop loving you Show me yourself, stand up from a bed, straighten your prayed body And throw these intrusive clothes from Chios away Take a bath like a pure lily Kleis should bring a cedarwood oil The new sapphire dress and purple coat put on While you'll be dressing I'll plait the chaplets for your hair hurry up, because your beauty bewilders me Like the stars round the moon lose their light Like the moon silvery shines over the earth. Like my beauty fades away when I'm close to you I'm ashamed to tell what I desire You must know that I was praying for our night to be longer Now, let the sunrays embrace your naked body Show yourself, otherwise I'll stop loving you I love delight as well Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) I love delight as well I love delight as well And this brightness Similar to the love of the sun My beauty is proper for me We sleepless girls Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) We sleepless girls we sleepless girls about great love sang about your beloved and her violet bosoms we sleepless girls about a great loneliness sang and about all those lonelinesses that will come suffering doesn't fit us sleepless girs so we hide behind a cheerful or a hidden face anger doesn't fit us sleepless girls so we paint a bright or a hidden look we sleepless girls are needed at sleepless nights just like sleeples nights are at no use at all we sleepless girls are needed on astray days when your beloved is gone with her violet bosoms It\'s good you came Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) it's good you came it's good you came I was dying for you it's good you came I was waiting so long my heart trembles cheerfully when my oldish body dives in the delight of your caresses and suddenly you light the fire in my heart you drink the sweet nectar of my thirsty lips my hands are stroking your divine arms my beloved I know how weak is the thread that weaves our existence How impossible love has just been fulfilled and even though I love you marry someone else Because old am I I won't bear the burden of life so why do you kindle a fire in my heart one more time Believe me Sappho (red. Jarek Kordaczuk) believe me believe me I'd like to die despairing crying words full of sorrow voice of dread gods called you to the other side don't forget me but if you were to forget I'll remind you myself how many beautiful days we went through how you enjoyed adorning your hair with flowers that smells freshly and chaplets of violets and roses or on soft pillows on a neat, tender bedding you lied to quench girls' desire with you my sweet beauty is playing golden Aphrodite girl with a sweet voice more sonorous than lyre more golden than gold  whiter than milk softer than water more melodious than lyra more haughty than horse more florid than rose hotter than fire brighter than sun more delicate than air more fragrant than oils you look so beautiful in this transparent blouse you look so beautiful in these silky robes in which Charon admires you Will you love any of Gods more out of them only Charon won't let the hope rise when you are covered with black soil don't forget me Sonokinetic Incident Factory Izabela KoĹ›ciesza Sonokinetic works MaĹ‚gosia Wawruk Sensor matrix Experimental music Installations Coral music Solo pieces Improvised music Acousmatic music Electronic Music Monoctone Pieces for children Jarek Kordaczuk mp3 Dark Energy Agnieszka KoĹ‚odyĹ„ska Pantomime Electroacoustic music Vocal-instrumental music Instrumental Music Musical interpretations of fairy tales Compositions Adam SmoczyĹ„ski Sacred Music EWI ProForma Theatrical music Jan Brzechwa Julian Tuwim Sebastian Wypych Poetic song Sung poetry JarosĹ‚aw Kordaczuk Arrangements Videoclips Animations Titelituralia Onomatopeic compositions Theatre of Sound A Room Full of Fairy Tales Children's Art Centre Cezary Konrad Krzysztof Herdzin Basia Raduszkiewicz Music for children