The suppression of creative musical life under Communism had as one of its little-noticed side effects a delay in the development in the historical-performance movement in Eastern Europe. The result is a vast body of music that has lain untouched for centuries. Perhaps it contains beauties untold; perhaps it even contains the secret of how we can ...
This is a specialist recording of works that are still in need of general-listener coverage. It harks back in a way to a time, four decades ago or so, when most recordings of music before Bach were made by ensembles associated with academic institutions. The liner notes seethe with scholarly score-settling, and the average listener wanting to ...
This disc is part of a series that for the most part gives world-premiere recordings of music unearthed at Poland's Jasna Gora monastery -- a collection spanning several centuries and very much representing an attempt to keep Poland's musical heritage alive during times of foreign domination. Accordingly, the collection has something of a pioneer ...
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