- Michał Ziółkowski (1919 - 2009): Intrada:
- 1Intrada01:28
- Andrzej Korzyński (1940 - 2022): Witajcie w naszej bajce • Welcome to Our Fairy Tale:
- 2Witajcie w naszej bajce • Welcome to Our Fairy Tale02:28
- Na wyspach Bergamutach • In the lsles of Bergamuts:
- 3Na wyspach Bergamutach • In the lsles of Bergamuts02:09
- Zoo:
- 4Zoo03:55
- Kaczka dziwaczka • Weirdo-duck:
- 5Kaczka dziwaczka • Weirdo-duck03:13
- Psie smutki • Dog's Blues:
- 6Psie smutki • Dog's Blues02:36
- W labiryncie • In the Maze:
- 7W labiryncie • In the Maze03:24
- Ballada Alladyna • Aladdin's Ballad:
- 8Ballada Alladyna • Aladdin's Ballad03:21
- Śpij, księżniczko • Sleep, Princess:
- 9Śpij, księżniczko • Sleep, Princess06:10
- Księżyc raz odwiedził staw • The Moon Once Visited a Pond:
- 10Księżyc raz odwiedził staw • The Moon Once Visited a Pond02:18
- Stefan Machel (b. 1960): Marsz wilków • March of the Wolves:
- 11Marsz wilków • March of the Wolves02:36
- Andrzej Korzyński (1940 - 2022): Zaklęcie doktora Paj-Chi-Wo • The Spell of Doctor Pai-Chi-Wo:
- 12Zaklęcie doktora Paj-Chi-Wo • The Spell of Doctor Pai-Chi-Wo03:12
- Pożegnanie z bajką • Farewell to the Fairy Tale:
- 13Pożegnanie z bajką • Farewell to the Fairy Tale05:44
- Meluzyna, czyli historia podwodnej miłości • Meluzyna, or the Story of Underwater Love:
- 14Meluzyna, czyli historia podwodnej miłości • Meluzyna, or the Story of Underwater Love03:27
- Moja fantazja • My Fantasy:
- 15Moja fantazja • My Fantasy03:24
Info zu Mr Kleks' Philharmonic
The album recorded by the NFM children's choirs, the Rondo Vocal Ensemble and the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra conducted by Małgorzata Podzielny features songs from films about Mr Kleks, arranged by Michał Ziółkowski. Well-known songs, composed by Andrzej Korzyński et al., have been arranged by Ziółkowski in a fascinating, vocal and instrumental version in a truly fairy-tale mood.
For the composer [Michał Ziółkowski] belonging to the generation of Mr Kleks’ “students”, the songs recorded on this album and arranged into a suite are an orchestral fantasy, woven into well-known melodies sung by a children’s choir and an “adult” mixed choir. This is true – Ziółkowski uses a large orchestra, treating it as a vast, multicolored treasury of various sounds. So much trouble to remember children’s songs? The orchestral setting may seem superfluous and while listening, it is easy to glide through the melodies of the songs you have heard. Yet there are so many details, colourful nuances, carefully hidden little things that only a curious child can find. As if were looking at the melodies through all the colourful stained glass windows that decorate the palace in Nieborów, which played the Academy in the film.
The fairy-tale material on this album is the result of collaboration between Michał Ziółkowski, the Wrocław choirmaster Małgorzata Podzielny and the choirs she leads. On the album we can hear the Girls' and Boys' Choirs of the National Forum of Music and the Rondo Vocal Ensemble (bringing together graduates of the Grażyna Bacewicz Primary Music School in Wrocław, or more precisely, graduates of another choir – Con Brio). The decorative orchestral tapestry is the work of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra.
As an addition to the suite of songs from films about Mr Kleks, the album includes the song My Fantasy, made popular by the band Fasolki and created by Andrzej Marek Grabowski (Mr Tic-Toc) and Ewa Chotomska (Aunt Clothilde) for a television programme. The song is connected with the film trilogy by assuming the perspective of a child, distancing themselves from the world of adults. The children’s point of view is the key to enjoying Mr Kleks’s songs. It was, among other things, allowing the youngest to have a voice on the screen that made Korzyński’s songs so popular.
This does not mean, of course, that adults cannot enjoy this music. Just give in to your sonic fantasy. This fantasy comes from a slightly different, auditory fairy tale. It is sensitive and attentive like Mr Kleks himself. Let’s not be afraid to open this door, because both children and adults need fairy stories. In this respect they are not much different. (Szymon Atys)
NFM Girls' Choir
NFM Boys' Choir
Rondo Vocal Ensemble
NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra
Malgorzata Podzielny, conductor
Malgorzata Podzielny
Assistant professor at the Faculty of Music Education, Choral Studies and Church Music of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław; she graduated from this university in the Faculty of Music Education (in the conducting class of Maria Oraczewska-Skorek) and the Faculty of Composition, Conducting, Music Theory and Music Therapy (music theory). She also completed postgraduate choral studies in Bydgoszcz. She obtained diplomas with honours in all her specialties. Małgorzata Podzielny was a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. For 20 years she was the conductor of the Con Brio Choir at the Grażyna Bacewicz First Degree Music School in Wrocław. Currently, she leads the Rondo Vocal Ensemble (since 2006) and is Artistic Director of the NFM Boys' Choir of the National Forum of Music (since 2009), as well as the NFM Girls’ Choir, established in September 2022.
In 2010, she obtained a doctoral degree, and in 2020 a postdoctoral degree. At her alma mater, she teaches a conducting class and methodology for conducting children's groups with vocal pedagogy.
In 2014, her book titled Shaping the Artistic Attitude of a Young Chorister published by the Academy of Music in Wrocław was published. She is Academic Director of the National and International Conferences on Working with Children’s Choirs, which resulted in the publication of two volumes titled Work with a Children's Choir (2019, 2023). Małgorzata Podzielny regularly conducts workshops and seminars devoted to working with children’s and youth choirs.
She has received 40 individual awards for her artistic and teaching achievements, including: the badge of Merit for Polish Culture, the 2nd degree Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Bronze Cross of Merit. Her choirs have been prize-winners at 90 national and international competitions, during which they have received over 120 awards.