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Forgotten Treasures (3CD)
Fryderyk Chopin | Andrzej Hundziak | Tadeusz Kassern | Michał Kondracki | Benedykt Konowalski 
Marcin Lemiszewski | Franz Liszt | Wojciech Łukaszewski | Władysław Macura 
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński | Aleksander Michałowski | Roman Palester | Edward Pałłasz 
Piotr Perkowski | Witold Rudziński | Antoni Szałowski | Karol Szymanowski

Krystyna Gołaszewska flute | Tomasz Bińkowski horn | Barbara Dębowska, Gabriela Machowska, 
Robert Marat piano | Wojciech Dunaj, Adrian Janda clarinet | Magdalena Górska, Szymon Kałużny, 
Andrzej Kordykiewicz, Włodzimierz Promiński violins | Roman Hoffmann, Katarzyna Majewska cellos 
Artur Kasperek bassoon | Krzysztof Kuk double bass | Mariusz Mocarski percussion 
Mariusz Niepiekło trumpet | Waleria Przelaskowska-Rokita alto 
Piotr Reichert viola | Sylwester Sobola oboe
© Chopin University of Music | Chopin University Press, UMFC CD 252–254 | 2026

The album Forgotten Treasures is one of the outcomes of the project Between the Unknown and the Forgotten: Polish Music in the Light of New Discoveries, initiated in 2017 by the flautist Krystyna Gołaszewska. As part of the project, conference sessions are held during which artists from various Polish musical centres present forgotten or hitherto unperformed works by Polish composers. Some of them received their world premieres only during the concerts accompanying the sessions, while others were recorded for the first time on the present album. The repertoire is extremely diverse. Chamber en-sembles prevail: from a solo instrument with accompaniment, through a wind trio and a mixed trio, to a wind quintet and a string quintet with solo instruments. Alongside these, there are several compositions for solo piano, including original works and paraphrases of pieces by Chopin and Moniuszko. The oldest and the most recent compositions are almost one hundred and fifty years apart; nevertheless, the album is dominated by the Neoclassical style, manifest in both interwar and postwar composi-tions.

Wojciech Łukaszewski: Suite in Olden Style for wind quintet; Trio for flute, oboe and clarinet*
Michał Kondracki: Trio for flute, clarinet and bassoon*; Christmas Carol for flute, violin and string quin-tet* **
Tadeusz Kassern: Sonatina for flute and piano; Concertino for flute, clarinet and bassoon
Piotr Perkowski: Sonatina for trumpet and piano
Andrzej Hundziak: Variations for trumpet and piano
Benedykt Konowalski: Fantasy for trumpet solo* **; U Karola w Atmie for wind quintet
Franz Liszt: Polish Songs (excerpts)
Fryderyk Chopin (arr. Gołaszewska): Piosnka litewska Op 74 No 16 for flute and piano; 
Mazurka in A minor Op 68 No 2 for flute and piano
Aleksander Michałowski: Prelude in B-flat minor, Op 9; Paraphrase of the Waltz in D-flat major 
by Fryderyk Chopin
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński: Paraphrase of The Spinner by Stanisław Moniuszko for piano
Władysław Macura: Mazurka in A minor for piano
Karol Szymanowski: 12 Etudes Op 33 for piano
Edward Pałłasz: Folk Songs for alto and piano*
Marcin Lemiszewski: French Suite for percussion*
Roman Palester: Petite sérénade for flute, violin and viola
Antoni Szałowski: Quatre pastorales for flute, violin, viola and cello**
Witold Rudziński: Quintet for flute, two violins, viola and cello*
*phonographic premiere
**polish premiere

The recordings were made in December 2017, 2019 and 2021 in Białystok..
Sound engineering, editing, mastering: Jakub Garbacz
Booklet notes: Magdalena Pasternak, Tomasz Baranowski
Text editor: Jakub Jakubaszek
English translations: Żaneta Pniewska 
Graphic design, typesetting: Beata Czerepak
Editor, production supervisor & executive producer: Emilia Dudkiewicz