With this album, the Czarakcziew/Kowal Duo pay tribute to the forgotten Cracow composer Jerzy Gablenz, who, endowed with an outstanding compositional talent, also partly devoted himself to running a family business and studying law.

Despite this, Gablenz still managed to write, among others, an opera, symphonic poems, a piano concerto and above all 86 songs, which were his favourite form of expression. Three of them, in the duo's original arrangement, are featured on this album, together with a monumental cello sonata.

Gablenz uses a post-romantic style, full of momentum and mood changes. One can find here echoes of the oeuvre of his professors, Zelenski and Nowowiejski, but also of Rachmaninoff. The extensive form and dense texture are a challenge for performers, but also an incentive to regularly present this work on stage.

The Czarakcziew/Kowal Duo is co-created by artists associated with the Cracow Academy of Music, winners of international competitions, actively performing both solo and chamber music. They specialize in searching for outstanding but unknown 20th- and 21st-century music.