Pawel Lukaszewski: Motets (2017)

The sacred music of Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski has been recorded for Hyperion, and now for the still more commercially oriented Warner Classics. This selection of motets offers a fine survey of his output in the form, and the somewhat grainier sound of the Polski Chór Kameralny under Jan Lukaszewski may be preferable to the purity of English cathedral choirs (your mileage may vary). Lukaszewski states that his music is characterized by "reductionism," which is apparently similar to minimalism in that it is defined by ... Read More

The sacred music of Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski has been recorded for Hyperion, and now for the still more commercially oriented Warner Classics. This selection of motets offers a fine survey of his output in the form, and the somewhat grainier sound of the Polski Chór Kameralny under Jan Lukaszewski may be preferable to the purity of English cathedral choirs (your mileage may vary). Lukaszewski states that his music is characterized by "reductionism," which is apparently similar to minimalism in that it is defined by clear-cut structural choices, and by "reformed tonality," as well as by the use of Renaissance and medieval techniques. A simpler way to look at it is that Lukaszewski is at heart a holy minimalist, in the vein of Pärt and Górecki, but one who uses a flexible variety of techniques in the service of a specific and deeply spiritual understanding of the text. Lukaszewski sets texts in Latin, Polish, and German. The musical language is flexible according to the nature of the text being... Read Less

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