Britain's small choir the Sixteen, now proclaiming itself "The Voice of Classic FM," the country's crossover-oriented classical radio network, has taken an unusual step into late Renaissance repertory that's little known outside Poland, with impressive results. The Blossoming Vine follows a disc of music by native Polish composer Bartlomiej Pekiel that was widely praised. The title of the present release comes from the biblical Song of Songs. The verse does not appear in any of the actual pieces recorded, but the concept ...
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Britain's small choir the Sixteen, now proclaiming itself "The Voice of Classic FM," the country's crossover-oriented classical radio network, has taken an unusual step into late Renaissance repertory that's little known outside Poland, with impressive results. The Blossoming Vine follows a disc of music by native Polish composer Bartlomiej Pekiel that was widely praised. The title of the present release comes from the biblical Song of Songs. The verse does not appear in any of the actual pieces recorded, but the concept might apply more generally to the music included: the three composers represented here were among dozens of Italian musicians imported to Poland by the ruler Sigismund III Vasa. Sigismund was a Catholic, an admirer of the Counter Reformation, and a figure who helped shape the flavor of Polish Catholicism as it has come down to the present day. The composers he hired were followers of Palestrina, and in at least one and probably two cases here actual students of the Roman master, but...
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