The Warsaw Tablature, of which this is the premiere complete recording, is a unique monument of Polish music. It is one of the last collections belonging to the continuous line of organ tablatures, present in Poland since at least the times of the Sagan Tablature (1425/33). Written around the 1680s, it contains mostly anonymous pieces coming from various periods and pointing to the Italian and South German cultures, the two being highly influential for Polish music to draw upon. What is exceptional in this set is the fact that it contains organ music written during the mature Polish Baroque, thus far much depleted of keyboard music monuments. The fate of the Warsaw organ tablature, so called on account of the place where it h as been preserved, is even more unclear and complicated than that of other monuments of Polish music (...). |
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