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 all just get along. The library of the Jasa Gora Monastery in Czestochowa contains music by no fewer than 120 Polish composers from various time periods -- some 3,000 works in all. ...
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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 all just get along. The library of the Jasa Gora Monastery in Czestochowa contains music by no fewer than 120 Polish composers from various time periods -- some 3,000 works in all. These are now being investigated, published, performed by historically appropriate forces, and recorded. From the evidence of this disc, the 13th in an ongoing series, the enterprise is yielding fascinating sounds. The disc presents sacred works by Amando Ivancic Osppe, a monk and composer born in 1727 who was born in Croatia and apparently worked in Bohemia. The back cover of the album gives a tentative 1790 deathdate, but the booklet itself suggests that he might have died in 1762...
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