Pekiel: Missa Concertata "La Lombardesca" / Sixteen

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Label
Coro
Release Date
June 3, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PEKIEL, BARTLOMIEJ
    • PERFORMER
      Mass
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 03, 2013
    • UPC
      828021611025
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16110
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    2. Gloria

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    3. Resonet in laudibus

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    4. Dulcis amor Jesu

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

      Performer: Charlotte Mobbs, Alice Gribbin, Jeremy Budd, Matthew Long, Stuart Young

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    5. Magnum nomen Domini

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

      Performer: Charlotte Mobbs, Alice Gribbin, Kim Porter, Caroline Trevor

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    6. Audite mortales

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

      Performer: Charlotte Mobbs, Alice Gribbin, Jeremy Budd, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Long, Stuart Young

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    7. O adoranda Trinitas

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    8. Nativitas tua

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    9. Kyrie

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    10. Gloria

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    11. Assumpta est Maria

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    12. Credo

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    13. Ave Maria

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    14. Sanctus

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    15. Benedictus

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan

    16. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Bartłomiej Pękiel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Eamonn Dougan




Bartlomiej Pekiel was one of the most eminent Polish composers of choral music of the 17th century. He served at the court in Warsaw from around 1633 and was assistant to Marco Scacchi at the Chapel Royal in Warsaw before becoming Kapellmeister himself from 1645-1655 - the first non-Italian to hold the post. He then moved to Wawel Cathedral in Krakow where he wrote for the Rorantist vocal ensemble.

Just 29 of his compositions survive today and on this new album by The Sixteen under the direction of Associate Conductor, Eamonn Dougan, we present 11 of his works for choir and orchestra including the Missa Concertata La Lombardesca resplendent with double choir, violins and trombones, and the extraordinary and dramatic Audite mortales.

In this recording dedicated solely to his works, Pekiel shows himself to be a skilled craftsman, mastering the techniques taught by the Italian maestri, but also imbuing his works with his own particular harmonic colour in all the varied styles he writes in.

R E V I E W S:

"Pekiel… emerges again – thanks to The Sixteen’s outstanding new disc – as a figure of polyphonic virtuosity." – The Sunday Telegraph, Seven Magazine

"The sound world, very loosely, brings to mind Monteverdi. The exciting dissonances and strange harmonic colours set Pekiel in a category of his own." – The Observer

"Punchy, potent, glorious. This is a disc of stunning baroque music from a beautifully-refined vocal collective." – McAlister Matheson Music