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\u201cIn the dim light of a church, I heard women singing. It was raw and mystical. It was the Gorzkie \u017bale<\/em>
(Bitter Lamentations) devotion, but sung to completely different melodies\u2014fascinating in their originality and expression. Later, it turned out that these melodies had travelled to Lower Silesia from Volhynia during postwar repatriations, along with the people who settled here.\u201d This is how Mateusz Ryczek recalls his first encounter with the Volhynian melodies in the village of Jakson\u00f3w near Wroc\u0142aw. These melodies became the foundation of Passion<\/em>, composed specifically for the Kwartludium ensemble.
Mateusz Ryczek\u2019s Passion<\/em> is a purely instrumental work. The only excerpts from the text are preserved in the titles of the four parts borrowed from the service: Pobudka<\/em> (Wake Up Call), Hymn, Lament, Rozmowa Duszy<\/em> (Conversation of the Soul). Unlike traditional Passion works, it is not a chronological account of the last moments of Christ on Earth and His martyrdom. It rather points to certain aspects present in the literary layer of Gorzkie \u017bale<\/em>, such as the titular lamentation, but also compassion, love, sacrifice and dying.
Passion<\/em> is an extended, ecumenical meditation of sorts on things existential and ultimate. It invites its listeners to immerse themselves in the tranquil surface of sounds, regardless of their worldview. Here, the Passion of Christ serves to communicate issues that are important to the composer (and to every human being, the composer believes) related to sacrifice, devotion, dying and the aforementioned crossing of thresholds.
Text: Aleksandra Paj\u0105k, Mateusz Ryczek<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mateusz Ryczek – Passion<\/a><\/strong> (2022) 45 min.
1. Pobudka
2. Hymn
3. Lament
4. Rozmowa Duszy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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