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Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski has created a virtual anomaly: a contemporary, large-scale liturgical work that could function equally as well as part of a traditional religious service and as a concert piece with the musical integrity and inspiration to appeal to broad audiences. Lukaszewski, though little known in the West, is clearly a composer to be reckoned with; his wide-...
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Thanks principally to Stephen Layton's advocacy, Pawel Lukaszewski's reputation is growing rapidly, and rightly so. Last year Hyperion issued a very fine collection of his choral works by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge under Layton's direction. Via Crucis completed in 2000, demonstrates that Lukaszewski can marshal even more complex forces with equal...
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Choral pieces which react in very specific ways to verbal and semantic nuance so easily make a bitty and episodic impression. That's emphatically not the case, though, with Gabriel Jackson's 'Not no faceless Angel', which takes a poem on bereavement as its basis. Jackson certainly does ring the changes in the work's ten-minute duration - whispers, quasi ...
