Tag Archives: Polish Christmas Carols

The last contemporary Polish Christmas carol is again from the Preisner collection. It’s also probably the weirdest (definitely the weirdest) and probably my favorite. It has a kind of… scope and sweep that I find very moving. That said, I’m … Continue reading →

Today’s modern Christmas Carol is also from the Preisner collection. It is probably the best known song on the collection and is on the way toward becoming a new standard. There has even been a translation into English recorded by … Continue reading →

Today – the most depressing Christmas Carol ever! Another of the carols with music by Zbigniew Preisner, the text to this is by the Polish author (of prose, poetry and opinion) and diplomat Stanisław Baliński (1898-1984) who left Poland after … Continue reading →

Today’s Christmas Carol (and all the rest though teh 25th) is from a 1999 collection by the Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner entitled My Carols for the End of the Century (Moje kolędy na koniec wieku). He wrote the music … Continue reading →

Today’s modern Polish Christmas Carol is from Grzegorz Turnau one of the leading practitioners of the old sung poetry genre accompanied by the operatic soprano Ewa Małas-Godlewska. The song compares the snowflakes (płatki) falling on the grey city with the … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to re-run the posts I did last year of modern Polish Christmas Carols. I’ll clean each one up a tiny bit and maybe tweak my translations. The first is a modern arrangement of one of the most popular … Continue reading →

Today’s modern Christmas Carol is also from the Preisner collection. It is probably the best known song on the collection and is on the way toward becoming a new standard. There has even been a translation into English recorded by … Continue reading →