Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki - Choral Works
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Label: Coro
Cat No: COR16130
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 30th March 2015
Contents
Works
Conductus funebrisIlluxit Sol
In virtute tua
Litaniae de Providentia Divina
Missa Rorate caeli
O rex gloriae
Sepulto Domino
Artists
The SixteenConductor
Eamonn DouganWorks
Conductus funebrisIlluxit Sol
In virtute tua
Litaniae de Providentia Divina
Missa Rorate caeli
O rex gloriae
Sepulto Domino
Artists
The SixteenConductor
Eamonn DouganAbout
The third disc in The Sixteen’s acclaimed series of Polish music, conducted by Associate Conductor Eamonn Dougan, explores the work of Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665–1734).
Regarded as the outstanding Polish composer of the high baroque, Gorczycki studied in Prague and Vienna in his early years and returned to Kraków in 1690 where he took holy orders. He was appointed Magister capellae at Wawel Cathedral in 1698, a position he held until his death. Like his predecessor Bartłomiej Pękiel (COR16110), Gorczycki wrote in both stile antico and stile moderno. The works featured in this recording display his skill in both genres.
The Missa Rorate shows his mastery of counterpoint and sensitivity to word-setting, as does Illuxit Sol in which Gorczycki revels in the rhetoric of the text, painting it with lush five-part string writing.
Conductus Funebris, a four-movement work setting text from the Burial Service, marries his contrapuntal skills with a more emphatic, declamatory style, while in the Litania de Providentia Divinae, Gorczycki unleashes the full power of his invention as he paints the virtues of 'Divine Providence' with a glowing palate of colours.
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