In addition to works attributed to the lutenists active at the Royal Polish court of the late 16th c., there is a substantial repertoire of compositions identified as 'Polish dances' or 'Polish songs' preserved in numerous sources of late Renaissance lute music. Characterized by melodic charm and straightforward harmonic and rhythmical textures, such musical polonica spread across Europe, achieving what may have been the widest distribution of musical 'Polishness' pre-Chopin.Polish lutenist Michal Gondko presents a selection of 40 of these polonica, many never previously recorded. Album Tracks 1. Chorea Eiusdem Nationis 2. Chorea Polonica I 3. Chorea Polonica Eiusdem Authoris 4. Cantio Polonica 5. Polnischer Tantz I 6. Polnischer Tantz II 7. Polnischer Tantz III 8. Polnischer Tantz IV 9. Polnischer Tantz V 10. Villanella Ad 11. Villanella Polonica 12. Finale Alberti Dlugorai 13. Chorea Polonica II 14. Chorea Polonica III 15. Chorea Polonica IV 16. Fantasia Ad 17. Polskey Tanecz Welmy Pekney 18. Polnisch Tantz 19. Ein Pol(N)Ischer Tantz (Bathori) 20. Praeludium Diomedis 21. Galliarda Di Diomede 22. Danza 23. Caspari Poloni Gagliarda 24. Fantasia Alberti Dlugorai Poloni 25. A Pollish Vilanell 26. A Polish Ayre 27. Ballo Polaco 28. Chorea Polonica Mowi Na Mie Sasiada 29. Ein Polnischer Tantz (Zuzanneczko) 30. Chançon a la Polonnoise Susannesco 31. Autre Taned Spolski 32. Balletto Polacho I 33. Balletto Polacho II 34. Balletto Polacho III 35. Balletto Polacho IV 36. Balletto Polacho V 37. Allemande (Bathori) 38. Taned Spolski 39. Galliarda Eiusdem Authoris 40. Fantasia Iacobi Reys