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Tadeusz Faliszewski - Śpij, moje serce [Sleep, My Poor Heart] ,1932

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Channel: 240252 · 2016 · Music

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Tadeusz Faliszewski & Orkiestra Lonora - Śpij, moje serce (J.Altschuler, O.Strock – A.Włast) – Tango z rewii „Przebój Warszawy” teatru Morskie Oko (from theatre Morskie Oko revue „The Hit of Warsaw”), Lonora-Electro 1932 (Polish)

NOTE: This wonderful tango was composed by the most famous prewar Latvijan composer Oscar Strock together with Joachim Altschuler (who was an influential Austrian /Polish composer and musical editor, having his offices in Warsaw, Wien and Riga). The small record factory “Lonora-Electro” was based in Warsaw and between c.1932-39  it produced the cheaper dance records. Alas, for their products they used second class schellac, therefore most of Lonora’s recordings are in rather bad condition today. However, their simple musical arrangements, sometimes lacking artistic sophistication yet very well reflect the “music for dancing”genre of the turn of the 1920/30s and  are today searched for by Polish collectors.  Orchestra “Lonora” was probably just a studio ensamble, completed ad hoc from musicians who were currently available “on the market”. Unfortunately, all Lonora’s archives and documentation perished during the 2nd WW and we must be satisfied with what’s been left: just a handful of surviving records. 

The slideshow to this film has been completed from old photographs of the place of my birth: a Pomeranian city of Bydgoszcz (international names: Bydgostia, Bromberg)  located on the picturesque fork of two beautiful rivers: Wisła (Vistula) and Brda (Brahe).  Fortunately, much of its prewar material substance had been saved through the war, so today many places thank God, look more-less the same today, as on the photographs. The painful exceptions are: the monumental building of the City Theatre, which was burnt by the group of drunk Soviet soldiers during the days of so-called “liberation” of Poland, in February 1945. That historical monument was never reconstructed.  Second such loss is the  Jesuit Church which stood in the Old Market Sq., with its two lofty spires. The church was demolished in 1940 by the Germans during the occupation and after war it was never rebuilt by the communists.

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