• Duration: 8'
• Instrumentation: 0000-0000-archi
• Year: 1965
• Type: parts, score

Engaging in the work of a self-styled judge of new music, Kisiel did not forget about its 'fathers', in particular, about Stravinsky. We are all from him, the author of Journey in Time for string orchestra, written in 1965, seems to say in his texts. Is this a sentimental journey to his youth, or to frivolous Neoclassicist Paris in the form of Satie, Les Six and Stravinskys neoclassical persiflage? Yes and no. Kisielewskis music, in each and every smallest piece has such an individual expression that it is difficult to subject it to some general idea, although in fact Journey in Time can be placed in the stream is known as neoclassical parody44. The music of this eight-minute piece is happy-sad, and more exactly: happy-sad-happy, because it is clearly arranged in the form of ABA1, which has already linked it with original Neo-Classicism, which very often used this three-part form. The contrast between the extreme phases of this one-movement piece and the middle section is so clear that one may trace some deeper, perhaps subconscious meaning; at the end of the journey to the source of time one may sometimes discover a painful side of existence and history. [M. Gąsiorowska, Kisielewski, PWM 2011]