PCM 02: Praise to Thee, O Lord!

The Huelgas Ensemble and Paul van Nevel perform Renaissance sacred music - including rarely heard works by Polish composers.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Anon: Chwala tobie, Gospodzinie
Anon: Cracovia civitas
Johannes Wanning: Dixit angelus ad Petrum
Johannes Wanning: Et valde mane
Mikolaj Zielenski: Mihi autem nimis
Christoph Demantius: Neue liebliche Intraden und frölichen Polnischen Täntzen
Luca Marenzio: Lamentabatur Jacob
Luca Marenzio: Solo e pensoso i piu deserti campi
Krzysztof Klabon: Sluchajcie mie
Krzysztof Klabon: Tryumfuj, wierny poddany

Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel (conductor)

One of the most enterprising and accomplished of the specialist vocal ensembles on today's early music scene, the Huelgas Ensemble and founder/conductor Paul van Nevel make their BBC Proms debut with a characteristically imaginative programme centering on the little-known repertoire of choral music from Renaissance Poland - most of it rarely heard these days, and some of it only recently re-discovered in the archives of the University of Warsaw. Alongside the Polish music are works by 16th-century composers from other corners of Europe - including the great Italian Luca Marenzio, the Dutch-born Johannes Wanning, and Christoph Demantius from Bohemia.