The release of sung poetry is a piece featuring my music and the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz — an outstanding Polish writer and poet, born in Belarus in 1798. The poem, titled "Do M", which I performed, was written in 1823 and takes the form of an imaginary dialogue with a beloved, telling the story of the poet's unhappy love. The poem was addressed to Maryla Wereszczakówna — Mickiewicz’s first love. It belongs to the genre of direct lyrical poetry, as shown by the use of first-person singular verbs and corresponding pronouns. The author also used various stylistic devices such as parallelisms, repetitions, anaphoras, epithets, comparisons, and metaphors.

My composition has a long history. The first chords and a similar rhythm emerged around ten months ago, and the final version, written in musical notation, took shape in the autumn of 2024. For the following months, however, I couldn’t find the right use for it — only when the idea of recording an album of sung poetry came up did it become incredibly valuable and fit the genre perfectly.

The day before recording the vocals, I refined the composition with attention to the lyrics, emphasizing certain words and stylistic devices in the poem, and working on the harmony.