Ars Produktion's DSD release Baroque in Poland taps into Polish reserves for early music, as interpreted by the award-winning group Ensemble Alla Polacca, of whom this is the first recording. Soprano Iwona Lesniowska-Lubowicz is joined by keyboardist Paulina Kilarska and theorbo/archlute and Baroque guitarist Stanislaw Gojny in the main group; string players Margret Baumgartl and Holger Faust-Peters also join the program to provide the all-important violin and gamba parts to the proceedings. Lesniowska-Lubowicz has a lovely ...
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Ars Produktion's DSD release Baroque in Poland taps into Polish reserves for early music, as interpreted by the award-winning group Ensemble Alla Polacca, of whom this is the first recording. Soprano Iwona Lesniowska-Lubowicz is joined by keyboardist Paulina Kilarska and theorbo/archlute and Baroque guitarist Stanislaw Gojny in the main group; string players Margret Baumgartl and Holger Faust-Peters also join the program to provide the all-important violin and gamba parts to the proceedings. Lesniowska-Lubowicz has a lovely, pure soprano voice worthy of Emma Kirkby and makes a lot out of little in the modestly scaled sacred concertos presented here. It is edifying to know that Poland was a country in addition to Germany where the sacred concerto was part of the bill of fare in the late 17th century, and despite the tremendous obscurity of these composers, these concertos -- particularly those of Stanislaw Sylwester Szarzynski -- are quite skillfully made, nearly on a par with Franz Tunder's far better...
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