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Whether with Polyphony or his Cambridge choir, Stephen Layton is constantly seeking out young or neglected composers to support. Here he introduces a 40-year-old Pole, Pawel Lukaszewski, who has taken full advantage of the religious freedom that followed the fall of the Iron Curtain to build up a sizeable body of sacred choral music.
His style is hardly adventurous, but there is a resourceful use...
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...
The name of the Polish composer, Pavel Lukaszewski, may be new to some readers, as it was to me. He was born in Cz?stochowa, the city in southern Poland, which has been for centuries a centre of pilgrimage. The famous icon of the Black Madonna of the Virgin Mary is kept in a monastery in the city and this has acted as a magnet to pilgrims. Thus Lukaszewski hails from a key centre of Polish...