ilona kubiaczyk-adler organist

Kosmogonik is an arrangement of Brad Mehldau’s jazz tune Unrequited. The composition makes several references to well-known standards of piano and organ literature – some of Jacob’s and my favorites. 

Kosmogonik was also a remarkably powerful engineer robot “who lit stars to dispel the darkness” in the mind of Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a successful Polish science fiction writer whose books were translated into 41 languages. Kosmogonik is also the middle name for our yet-to-be-born son – the piece was conceived at the beginning of my pregnancy, and like our son, is also a fruit of our very close collaboration. The last short and soft section of the composition cites a beautiful Polish lullaby (in the pedal part) “Aaa, kotki dwa” (“Aaa, kitties two”), which is meant to soothe our baby to sleep after all the excitement from the previous louder sections. 

Recorded on the fabulous Paul Fritts organ at ASU Organ Hall in June 2012.  

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - 1st movement from the 6th Sonata (1845): Chorale and Variations on "Vater unser im Himmelreich"
on Van Hagerbeer/Schnitger organ in St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar, Holland

Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) - 1^st movement of Sonata no. 1 in d-minor 10:37

played in 2008 at the 1928 Rieger from Jägerndorf organ at the St. Matthew Evangelical Church in Łódź (Poland)