Polyphony: Music for a Polish Pope at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London on Tuesday 8th November 2022

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Polyphony: Music for a Polish Pope

Add to my Calendar 08-11-2022 19:30 08-11-2022 21:30 36 Polyphony: Music for a Polish Pope Music of hope in an age of oppression: Polyphony showcases the impassioned, little-known music that Polish composers wrote in tribute to Pope John Paul II. In October 1978 Karel Wojtyłla was elected to the Papacy as John Paul II: the first ever Polish Pope. To his fellow-countrymen, struggling against communist tyranny, it seemed like a kind of miracle, and a generation of Polish composers responded to the John Paul’s moral leadership with some of the most committed and communicative choral music of the late 20th century – still far too little-known in Western Europe. Stephen Layton and Polyphony (“possibly the best small professional chorus in the world” – Encore magazine) put that right tonight, with a whole evening of UK premieres dedicated to the Polish Pope; the man they called “the peacemaker”.   St Martin-in-the-Fields, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
Westminster
London
WC2N 4JJ
England

Tuesday 8th November 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Wojciech Kilar – Agnus Dei

Performers

Stephen Layton – Conductor
Rupert Jeffcoat – organ

Polyphony

Programme Note

Music of hope in an age of oppression: Polyphony showcases the impassioned, little-known music that Polish composers wrote in tribute to Pope John Paul II.

In October 1978 Karel Wojtyłla was elected to the Papacy as John Paul II: the first ever Polish Pope. To his fellow-countrymen, struggling against communist tyranny, it seemed like a kind of miracle, and a generation of Polish composers responded to the John Paul’s moral leadership with some of the most committed and communicative choral music of the late 20th century – still far too little-known in Western Europe. Stephen Layton and Polyphony (“possibly the best small professional chorus in the world” – Encore magazine) put that right tonight, with a whole evening of UK premieres dedicated to the Polish Pope; the man they called “the peacemaker”.

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