Krzysztof Komeda
Jazz & Poetry /Meine süsse Europäische Heimat

CD 162 Polonia (Poland), 1998

Tracks:

1. The Trumpet Player Is Innocent (Wislawa Szymborska "Den Freunden", Antoni Marianowicz "Berliner Skizzen")
2. Dirge for Europe Czeslaw Milosz "Erde" Antoni Marianowicz "Die Lage" Kazimierz Wierzynski "Asche" )
3. Miserere (Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski "Miserere", Zygmunt Lawrynowicz "Trauriges Wissen", Tadeusz Rozewicz "Laßt uns", Wislawa Szymborska "Kleine Anzeige" )
4. Choral (Jozef Wittlin "Litanei")
5. Hameln Is Everywhere (Wladyslaw Sebyla "Bekanntmachung")
6. Prayer and Question (Jozef Czechowicz "Trauergebet", Jozef Wittlin "Nicht Neues")
7. Canzone for Warschau (Czeslaw Milosz "Nach der Katastrophe - Warschau 1943")
8. No Love Song at All (Kazimierz Przerwa Tetmajer "Ich such Dich", Maria Jasnorzewska-Pawlikowska "Liebe")
9. Theme for One and Variations for Another World (Zbigniew Bienkowski "In Deinem Namen", Zbigniew Herbert "Gärten züchten" aus "Die Klapper")
10. Free Witch and No-bra Queen (Kazimiera Illakowiczowna "Die Hexe", Stanislaw Grochowiak "Busen der Königin", Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski "Mit Instrumenten Schlendern")
11. Komeda im Zirkus Wazyk (Adam Wazyk "Am Anfang dressierte man Pferde")
12. Sketches for Don Quichotte (Stanislaw Grochowiak "Ritterballade")
13. Waltzing Beyond (Czeslaw Milosz "Lied vim Weltende")

All Music by Krzysztof Komeda

Lyrics translations by Karl Dedecius

Performed by:

Krzysztof Komeda - p
Tomasz Stanko - tp, flgh
Zbigniew Namyslowski - as
Roman Dyl?g - b
Rune Carlsson - dr

Poems performed by Helmut Lohner

Recorded:

in Baden-Baden, Germany May 1967