Lukaszewski: Choral Music

This new disc from the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge showcases the talent of this marvelous young choir in a disc of seductively beautiful spiritual music from Poland. Pawel Lukaszewski is the most outstanding of the younger generation of Polish composers specializing in sacred choral music. He has an enormously subtle and varied harmonic palette and creates an organically new harmonic world for each piece. His extended tonal sound world is enriched by highly selective use of vocal effects such as glissandi, parlando (speaking) and susurrando (whispering), all of which occur invariably in direct response to clear textual stimuli. A generous selection of Lukaszewski's considerable output is recorded here. Conductor Stephen Layton is one of Lukaszewski's most enthusiastic proponents. He communicates this deep understanding of Lukaszewski's music to his young singers, coaxing from them a committed and potent performance.

Price: $20.98