Stephen Layton: Polyphony - Part: Choral Music

Stephen Layton and Polyphony have a long and fruitful relationship with the music of Arvo Part. Their recording of Triodion and other choral works (CDA67375) won a Gramophone Award and became a cult classic. The extraordinary purity of Polyphony�s singing is the perfect vehicle for music of such clean, elemental simplicity, such cathartic calm.This third Part album from Stephen Layton and Polyphony reaches right back, intriguingly, to the composer�s youthful modernist phase and spans nearly five decades�from 1963 to 2012�in the process. As with the album Triodion, it reflects an increasingly broad spread of languages and sources in Part�s chosen texts. Latin, German and English are joined here by Church Slavonic and Spanish. A range of biblical texts are set alongside ancient prayers.