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Olga Kamieńska & Jerzy Rosner (piano) - Zwiozdy na niebie, 1935

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Olga Kamieńska z akomp. fortepianu (with piano accompaniment) by Jerzy Rosner – Zwiozdy na niebie (Stars In the Sky) Romans ros. (Romance, sung in Russian), Syrena-Electro 1935 ( Polish)

NOTE: Olga KAMIEŃSKA was a fabulous prewar  Polish singer and interpreter of the old romances. Born in 1905 to a wealthy Polish émigré family in Grozny, in today’s Tchetchen Republic, she received in her youth a careful education including music and singing. After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, the family run away from Russia and settled in 1920 in Warsaw. Having been a part of Varsavian higher class of the 1920s, Olga Kamieńska was reluctant to appear on the public stages, although her outstanding alto voice and sophisticated  theatrical talent were well known in the social circles of Warsaw. In 1927 she appeared on the air, singing beautiful old romances and immediately her radio performances became a sensation. However, it was only in 1933 when she appeared on stage, in the artistic cabaret “Femina” and “Nowy Momus” in Warsaw and she recorded for Columbia some of her songs, including her greatest hit “Wam diewiatnadcat’ liet” (You Are Only Nineteen).  Considered as the best Polish old romances performer, Olga Kamieńska appeared in 1936 on stage of the music-hall “Hollywood” and she was contracted with the cabaret “Małe Qui pro Quo” to perform in 1938-39. She had many guest appearances in Warsaw, Gdynia and Wilno as well as abroad, including the “white Russian” emigration circles in Europe and in New York. She married a higher officer of prewar Polish army, with whom, after outbreak of the 2nd World War she got to France. In 1945 she returned to Poland and for several years she lived in Łódź, waiting for an opportunity to settle back in a ruined Warsaw (what she did, in the 1950s). In postwar Poland, she used to give recitals and occasionally she performed on the radio. However her poor health made her withdraw from the artistic life in the 1960s. She died in 1981, forgotten and almost completely paralyzed.  
The song presented on this side of her Syrena-Electro recording is, in fact, the famous romance  “Snilsa mnie sad” (I Dreamed Our Orchard) once performed by the Russian romance master, Alexandre Vertinsky.

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