Warsaw Village Band
World Routes
Saturday 17 May 2008 15:00-16:00 (Radio 3)
In a special edition of the programme, Lucy Duran travels to Poland to explore the folk music of Chopin's homeland, meeting suka player Maria Pomianowska, the folk group Kapela Brodow and the Warsaw Village Band.
Playlist
THE CHOPIN EXPERIENCE - WORLD ROUTES
Presented by Lucy Duran
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
Tel. 020 7765 4661
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Saturday 17 May 2008, 3:00pm
All music recorded on location in Warsaw, 9/10 May 2008, by Andrew Smillie
See pictures from World Routes' visit to Warsaw
Music details:
Josef Rosinski: An old style oberek (0.57)
album: Sources of Polish Folk Music: Mazowsze
Polish Radio PRCD 170
Warsaw Village Band: Polka (0.34)
Recorded at Pracovnia Arts Club, Warsaw, 10 May 2008
BBC recording - not commercially available
More details below
Kapela Brodow:
Mazurka (2.20)
Anna Broda (vocal/percussion); Witek Broda (fiddle)
Polonaise (3.41)
Anna Broda (vocal/percussion); Witek Broda (fiddle); Jacek Mielcarek (clarinet)
Harvest Song (1.56)
Anna Broda (vocal/percussion); Witek Broda (hurdy gurdy)
Recorded at St Dominic's Monastery, Warsaw, 9 May 2008
BBC recording - not commercially available
http://www.kapelabrodow.com/
Kapela Brodow have released the CD Piesni Maryjne through the Polish Radio imprint
Maria Pomianowska Ensemble:
Oberek od Kajokow (2.55)
Maria Pomianowska (fiddle from Plock); Iwona Rapacz (bass suka); Robert Sziwak (drum)
Suwany na suke (2.18)
Maria Pomianowska (suka); Marta Maslanka (dulcimer)
Chopin's Mazurka Op.68 No.2 (2.21)
Maria Pomianowska (fiddle from Plock); Iwona Rapacz (bass suka); Robert Sziwak (drum); Marta Maslanka (dulcimer); Malgorzata Szarlik (hollow violin)
Recorded at Royal Castle, Warsaw, 9 May 2008
BBC recording - not commercially available
http://www.pomianowska.art.pl/
Maria Pomianowska on Myspace.com
Maria Pomianowska has released music through the Paris Music label
http://www.parismusic.com.pl/
Warsaw Village Band:
When Johnny Went to Fight in the War (5.29)
Fishie (3.03)
Four Wild Horses (3.42)
Sylvia Swiatkowska (violin/suka/vocal); Wojtek Krzak (violin/vocal); Maja Kleszcz (cello/vocal/percussion); Maciej Szajkowski (percussion); Piotr Glinski (percussion)
Recorded at Pracovnia Arts Club, Warsaw, 10 May 2008
BBC recording - not commercially available
http://www.warsawvillageband.net/
http://www.myspace.com/warsawvillageband
Read a profile of this band
The Warsaw Village Band's most recent release is the remix album Upmixing (Jaro Medien JARO 4286-2)
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