Track length: | 4:11 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Komitas Vardapet |
ISRC: | DEB330912551 |
Track length: | 4:15 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Byzant Christian Hymn |
ISRC: | DEB330912552 |
Track length: | 4:19 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Author: | Pär Lagerkvist |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Jan Garbarek |
ISRC: | DEB330912553 |
Track length: | 13:07 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Based on compositions by Nikolai N. Kedrov |
ISRC: | DEB330912554 |
Track length: | 6:40 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Komitas Vardapet |
ISRC: | DEB330912555 |
Track length: | 4:34 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Arvo Pärt |
ISRC: | DEB330912556 |
Track length: | 3:32 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
ISRC: | DEB330912557 |
Track length: | 4:06 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
ISRC: | DEB330912558 |
Track length: | 6:26 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
ISRC: | DEB330912559 |
Track length: | 5:19 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Perotin |
ISRC: | DEB330912560 |
Track length: | 4:19 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
Composer: | Jan Garbarek |
ISRC: | DEB330912561 |
Track length: | 0:19 |
Artist: | Jan Garbarek The Hilliards Ensemble |
Author: | Giorgos Seferis |
Performer: | Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones |
The Hilliard Ensemble | |
David James countertenor | |
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor | |
Steven Harrold tenor | |
Gordon Jones baritone | |
Bruno Ganz reading | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Genre: | Crossover |
Studio: | St Gerold Monastery June July 2009 |
ISRC: | DEB330912562 |
Jan Garbarek - soprano and tenor saxophones
The Hilliard Ensemble
David James - countertenor
Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
Steven Harrold - tenor
Gordon Jones - baritone
Recorded June and July 2009
The inspired bringing together of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble has resulted in consistently inventive music making since 1993. The unprecedented “Officium” album, with Garbarek’s saxophone as a free-ranging ‘fifth voice’ with the Ensemble, gave the first indications of the musical scope and emotional power of this combination. “Mnemosyne” (1998) took the story further, expanding the repertoire beyond ‘early music’ to embrace works both ancient and modern.
Now, after another decade of shared experiences, comes “Officium Novum”, the third album from Garbarek/Hilliard, recorded, like its distinguished predecessors, in the St Gerold monastery. A central focus this time is music of Armenia based on the adaptations of Komitas Vardapet, pieces which draw upon both medieval sacred music and the bardic tradition of the Caucasus. The Hilliards have studied these pieces in the course of their visits to Armenia, and the modes of the music encourage some of Garbarek’s most impassioned playing. Alongside the Armenian pieces in the “Officium Novum” repertoire: Arvo Pärt’s “Most Holy Mother of God” in an a cappella reading , Byzantine chant, two pieces by Jan Garbarek, including a new version of “We are the stars”, as well as the Spanish “Tres morillas”. There is also a new account of Perotin’s “Alleluia, Nativitas”: the freedom of interpretation is testimony to the way the project as a whole has grown since its introduction on ECM New Series, with the Hilliard Ensemble now very much involved in the music’s improvisational processes and implications.
The inspired bringing together of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble has resulted in consistently inventive music making since 1993. It was the groundbreaking “Officium” album, with Garbarek’s saxophone as a free-ranging ‘fifth voice’ with the Ensemble, which gave the first indications of the musical scope and emotional power of this combination. “Mnemosyne”, 1998’s double album, took the story further, expanding the repertoire beyond ‘early music’ to embrace works both ancient and modern.
Now, after another decade of shared experiences, comes a third album from Garbarek/Hilliard, recorded, like its distinguished predecessors, in the Austrian monastery of St Gerold, with Manfred Eicher producing. Aptly titled, there is continuity in the music of “Officium Novum” and also some new departures. In ‘Occident/Orient’ spirit the album looks eastward, with Armenia as its vantage point and with the compositions and adaptations of Komitas as a central focus. The Hilliards ha...