Utwory na płycie:

• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 01. Introduction
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 02. Station 1: Jesus Is Condemned To Death
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 03. Station 1: Universa Turba
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 04. Station 2: Jesus Takes Up The Cross
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 05. Station 2: Dicebat Autem Jesus Ad Omnes
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 06. Station 3: Jesus Falls The First Time
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 07. Station 3: Quis Credidit Auditui Nostro?
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 08. Station 4: Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 09. Station 4: Senex Simeon Prophetizans
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 10. Station 5: Simon Of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry The Cross
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 11. Station 5: Exeuntes Autem Invenerunt
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 12. Station 6: Veronica Wipes The Face Of Jesus
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 13. Station 6: Auferet Dominus Deus Lacrymam
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 14. Station 7: Jesus Falls The Second Time
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 15. Station 7: Vere Languores Nostros Ipse Tulit
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 16. Station 8: The Women Of Jerusalem Weep For Jesus
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 17. Station 8: Sequebatur Autem Illum Multa Turba
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 18. Station 9: Jesus Falls The Third Time
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 19. Station 9: Omnes Nos Quasi Oves Erravimus
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 20. Station 10: Jesus Is Stripped Of His Clothes
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 21. Station 10: Milites Ergo Cum Crucifixissent Eum
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 22. Station 11: Jesus Is Nailed To The Cross
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 23. Station 11: Et Perducunt Illum Golgotha Locum
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 24. Station 12: Jesus Dies On The Cross
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 25. Station 12: Stabat Autem Iuxta Crucem Jesu Mater
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 26. Station 13: Jesus Is Taken Down From The Cross
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 27. Station 13: Judaei Ergo
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 28. Station 14: Jesus Is Laid In The Tomb
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 29. Station 14: Post Haec Autem Rogavit Pilatum Joseph
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 30. Station 15: The Resurrection
• Lukaszewski: Via Crucis - 31. Christus Vincit

Stephen Layton’s first disc of Lukaszewski’s choral works (with The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge) was widely praised by listeners entranced by the composer’s unique yet accessible musical language. For this new release Layton and Polyphony, together with the Britten Sinfonia and a team of world-class soloists, have taken on a major work which is destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple or Pärt’s St John Passion. Via Crucis is a dramatization of the Stations of the Cross, a musical reading of this most solemn journey that evolves through its 55-minutes in an arc of culminatory ritual power.

'Lukaszewski's reputation is growing rapidly, and rightly so … Here, Christ's victory over death enables Lukaszewski to end on a triumphant coda that carries a primal power recalling Orff's Carmina Burana and Penderecki's St Luke Passion … All the performers evince an emotional commitment to the content as well as to accurate technical realisation of the music. The purity of sound achieved by Polyphony's sopranos and countertenor Iestyn Davies is notable, so too is Roger Allam's sonorous narration' (BBC Music Magazine)

'A composer with a profound understanding of the technical and emotional range of the human voice … The shining writing for the countertenor Evangelist (performed by the outstanding Iestyn Davies) … and the Resurrectional blaze of the final 'Christus vincit'. This string of moments, by turns bright and oppressively dark, dramatic and reflective, receives a performance of the very deepest conviction by Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia under Stephen Layton, and the recorded sound is wonderful' (Gramophone)

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Recording details: March 2008; West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Produced by Adrian Peacock; Engineered by David Hinitt; Release date: March 2009;