Wrocław Baroque Ensemble & Andrzej Kosendiak - Mykola Dyletsky (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Work on preparing this album began in 2019, when I first encountered Mykola Dyletsky’s music – we performed fragments of his Requiem Liturgy with Wrocław Baroque Ensemble in Kyiv. At that time, they made a great impression on me, which, along with my subsequent work as a conductor on this artist’s works and subsequent concerts, strengthened my feeling that I was dealing with a unique repertoire. Dyletsky’s work is a fascinating encounter between the East and the West – the language, liturgy and melody of the Eastern Church harmonise with Western compositional techniques and musical styles. There are clear inspirations from the Venetian polychoral style and stile concertato, and tutti sections are often intertwined with figurative fragments in a solo ensemble. You can also see elements of musical rhetoric. Both liturgical pieces presented on the album were written for two fourpart vocal ensembles. In my opinion, the way they are performed should be similar to the way we perform religious polychoral music of that period, created for the Catholic Church in the Western Latin rite. I have a strong impression that if the a cappella texture present in these works were supplemented with instruments typical of European music from the first half of the seventeenth century (e.g. cornets and trombones), i.e. instruments used, among others, by Claudio Monteverdi or Bartłomiej Pękiel and Mikołaj Zieleński, then it would transpire how close Dyletsky’s music was to what was happening in Western Europe at that time. - Andrzej Kosendiak

Tracklist:
01. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy O only begotten Son
02. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy The Little Litany
03. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy O come, let us worship
04. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy The Thrice-Holy
05. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy Alleluia
06. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy The Litany of Fervent Supplication
07. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy The Cherubimic Hymn
08. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy A mercy, a peace
09. Dyletsky Requiem Liturgy Dignified it is
10. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection Today is the Day of Resurrection
11. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection Come, let us drink a new drink
12. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection Upon the divine watchtower
13. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection Let us rise early at morn
14. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection O Christ, into the deepest abyss of earth thou didst descend
15. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection Jesus, having risen from the grave
16. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection He who did save the children from the furnace
17. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection Verily, this day
18. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem
19. Dyletsky Canon of the Resurrection When thou didst fall asleep in the body as mortal
20. Dyletsky Christ is risen from the dead
21. Dyletsky David, the forefather of our divine Lord


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