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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1999-11-16
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Parce mihi domine
- Primo tempore
- Sanctus
- Regnantem sempiterna
- O salutaris hostia
- Procedentem sponsum
- Pulcherrima rosa
- Parce mihi domine
- Beata viscera
- De spineto nata rosa
- Credo
- Ave maris stella
- Virgo flagellatur
- Oratio Ieremiae
- Parce mihi domine
- Parce mihi domine
- Primo tempore
- Sanctus
- Regnantem sempiterna
- O salutaris hostia
- Procedentem sponsum
- Pulcherrima rosa
- Parce mihi domine
- Beata viscera
- De spineto nata rosa
- Credo
- Ave maris stella
- Virgo flagellatur
- Oratio Ieremiae
- Parce mihi domine
Free Music Notes for Officium
Free Music Review: Generally beautiful, but rather homogenous and limited in its possibilities
Hit: 3 Stars
While working on a film in Iceland, ECM label head Manfred Eicher was listening to a mix of medieval European vocal music and the contemporary jazz of Jan Garbarek. In September 1993, Eicher brought together the Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek in a German monastery for a fresh new crossover concept. As the Hilliard Ensemble performed 14 early vocal pieces, ranging from the most ancient chants to the more elaborate settings of Perotin and Dufay, Jan Garbarek improvised on soprano and tenor saxophones. The resulting music is generally quite beautiful, with the saxophone giving more variety of timbre but the music of the vocal ensemble keeps everything rooted in (pre-)tonality. The interaction of the vocalists and the saxophone nowhere seems forced. Certainly audiences of the time were in need of such contemplative music--witness the success in the following year of the Chant album.
The problem with the album, however, is that like most crossover efforts the music eventually comes to see limited in its possibilities. Instead of a 77-minute CD, which comes to be exhausting, half as much material would have the same impact. Those intrigued by the concept--and certainly fans of Jan Garbarek's work--may find it worthwhile. But all in all it is a fairly minor item in my collection, and I'm baffled that Eicher thought it necessary to continue this line of crossover with the Mnemosyne album.
Officium Poster
What is this music? Fundamentally, it's an exploration of what happens when an improvisatory instrumental voice (saxophone) is placed into the world of early vocal music--which has elements of both improvisation and formal structure. In reality, it's an adventure in which the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble travel the 14th- and 15th-century territory of Morales and Dufay, visit the 12th century of Perotin, and roam even earlier ages of plainchant, accompanied by the always sensitive and tasteful--and often astonishing--saxophone improvisations of jazz master Jan Garbarek. Sometimes, these new melodies simply accompany; sometimes they transform the common--a routine minor chord, for instance--into a sublime, indescribable moment. The answer to the above question is easy--but it's different for each listener. --David VernierClassical Music CDs
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