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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 ...
Hyperion offers us more of the unknown-but-worthy in this collection of sacred music by Polish composer Lukaszweski (b. 1968), one of the up-and-coming talented musicians following a long line of Polish comrades led perhaps by the indomitable Penderecki. There is no Penderecki-angst here, and certainly no conflicted sense of Christian-justice-struggling-in-the-world like we find in the powerful...
Lukaszewski: Choral Music - Musical Criticism.com
Stephen Layton adds yet another accomplished choral recording to his discography with this release, which concentrates exclusively on the devotional music of the emerging Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski. Like the Veljo Tormis release before it, this new disc contains music of outwardly simple means - in this case a (rich) extended tonality,...
The young Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski (b. 1968) has produced an impressive body of sacred choral music, his primary focus, over the past sixteen years. Lukaszewski could be spoken of as emerging from the neo-medieval, neo-tonal spiritual tradition of Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, and John Tavener, but his music is less static, both rhythmically and harmonically, and seemingly more focused on...