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Whenever you're in the presence of the vocal ensemble Polyphony and their conductor Stephen Layton you begin to understand what authenticity is really about. And it has little to do with period performance. Their St John Passion certainly was historically informed - and they sang with the period instruments of the Academy of Ancient Music. But the authenticity here went deeper, to the core of...
If audience participation muddies the join-in carols in the King’s disc, here’s something cool, poised and honed to perfection. The breathtakingly precise Polyphony under Stephen Layton sing my favourite performance of these exquisite motets. Poulenc gives us the eery depth in ‘O magnum mysterium’, the inimitable delicacy of ‘Videntes stellam’ and breaks into peals of robust joy with ‘Hodie...
À première vue, le langage musical de Pawel Lukaszewski (né en 1958) présente d’évidentes affinités avec les idiomes de ses aînés polonais Henryk Górecki et Wojciech Kilar, de l’Estonien Arvo Pärt, et de l’Anglais John Tavener, écrit l’auteur de la notice de ce disque du compositeur polonais Pawel Lukaszewski. Et même s’il ajoute plus loin que la palette harmonique de Lukaszewski est infiniment...
The Choir of Trinity gives an immaculate performance of the seductively beautiful spiritual music of the young Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski. The composer has an enormous range, conveying a unique soundworld for each piece with every vocal device available. New music at its best.