Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko's Litanie Ostrobramskie (Litanies of Ostra Brama) consist of four Marian canticles written in honor of the shrine to the Virgin Mary at Ostra Brama cathedral in Vilnius, a place venerated by Lithuanians and Poles alike as sacred. Reckoned as the finest of Moniuszko's more than 90 sacred works, these litanies are ...
Listeners who have wholeheartedly embraced the fin de siècle music of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, and French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel have never really responded to the fin de siècle music of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. Who can say why? As this disc coupling the composer's ...
Sacred music takes up fully half of nineteenth century Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko's output -- the other half is dominated by opera, and his overall output is typified by the opera Halka, his most famous work -- but heretofore little has appeared on disc to represent Moniuszko's efforts on behalf of the church. As good as Halka is, Dux's ...
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